Act Of Kindness Brings Stockton Woman To Tears
STOCKTON (CBS13) -- When you lose a wallet, you don't expect to get it back, but in this case a young Stockton woman got a very a special delivery.
"I just read the letter and everyone's screaming, saying 'What does it say? What does it say," Elisa McGuff recalled.
McGuff tore open a package with her name written in big, bold lettering. Inside the priority mail package was a letter.
"Dear Miss Elisa and family, I was on my way to the store at Walmart. I did not find a phone number so I used the $20 to mail it back to you. Hope you don't mind," the letter read.
McGuff did not mind.
"If it was any other person they would probably take it, spend all my money and throw it away," McGuff said.
Elisa, with baby in tow, had no idea she had even dropped her wallet at a Walmart in Stockton last week.
"I hope dear you are more caring with your wallet and your checking account. Not everyone is honest you know," the letter read.
"I just started crying it," Elisa said. "Basically, it says she found it and I need to be more careful. Hah."
The sender also wrote that when she was a soldier many years ago, someone had returned her wallet and she wanted to do the same for Elisa.
"The story is I'm a little old lady and I wish to return your wallet with everything in it. Take care and God bless. "
Elisa's cousin Bob is deployed right now so the military connection and selfless act brought this 21- year-old to tears.
"It's really amazing someone has a heart and is honest," Elisa said. "You don't find that too often."
The sender's message is clear. But her name and return address were written too poorly to make out.
"I wish I could contact her to thank her and take her out, do something," Elisa said. "I hope to have a friendship out of this because that was so sweet. I owe her a lot."
