once was lost. . .

My wallet was lost/stolen on the bus back from the airport after picking R up on the day after Christmas. I didn't lose a lot of money, but it was an annoyance, trying to figure out how to cancel an ATM card and whatnot. I had my driver's licence in there as well, which would be quite a pain to replace, given that I don't live in Oregon anymore.

About a week later, my wallet reappeared. Someone saw my 'foreigner registration card' and turned in the wallet - sans cash, of course -- to the police for foreigners. They were able to track me down through my registered host. We went to pick it up this morning. Now I have my driver's license, a cancelled ATM card, and most strangely, all of the coins that were in my wallet when I lost it.

As my mom said, "it's nice to think that you live in a place where someone would turn in your wallet to the police."