This post is a day late because my main laptop has refused to boot up again – it’s going back to the shop tomorrow. I’m working on an older, slower laptop, but at least I have the backup. So this story is a short one:

Yesterday I stupidly left a shopping bag with a new black jacket for my upcoming appearances in my grocery shopping cart. I’d stowed it on the lower basket, and completely forgot to remove it along with my bags of groceries when I transferred them to our truck. Didn’t realize all through dinner at a restaurant afterward – not until we arrived home.

Crap! I jumped in my car and headed back across town to the grocery store at our big mall. I’d already prepared myself that the clothing bag might have disappeared into someone’s unscrupulous hands, but I had some hope or I wouldn’t have bothered making the trek at 8pm.

I talked to two of the grocery store staff, who didn’t think they’d seen such a bag – but, on a search through the back room in Customer Service, lo and behold, there it was!

All three of us were gratefully surprised that someone had found the bag, whether it was another shopper or the boy that sorts through the carts at the end of the day and gathers them up for storage, and turned it in. No matter how dismayed we may get at the state of the world, even on a local front, humanity continues to restore our faith on occasion.