Yesterday I found a wallet on my bus, it contained credit cards etc and a reasonable amount of cash. When I got to Winchester I handed it in to the office. About 10 minutes later a Leading Driver found me in the canteen and asked if I’d found a wallet on my bus because someone was asking about it at the bus station. I told him what I’d done and since the office was closed for lunch he had to retrieve the wallet himself and give it back to the owner. I guess the owner must have said what bus he was taking back because he was told that the driver who’d handed it in was the driver of his bus back and was given a hint to thank (tip) the driver. He did indeed got on the bus and say ‘Thank you” but that was that.

At the guy’s stop an old lady was also getting off. She looked at me and said that she was looking forward to “getting indoors” and having a cup of tea, adding “Here’s a cup of tea for you” and gave me a pound. I’d done nothing for the lady that I wouldn’t do for any passenger and yet she was was generous and kind to me. The guy I’d reunited with credit cards, bank notes and coins just got off without a ‘Goodbye’ or ‘Cheerio’ :-(