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Hey, everybody. I'm on my way back to the States from Mexico. Classes start Wednesday. I've had a great time, but I really screwed up today during my overnight hotel stopover in Mexico City to catch my flight to Dallas and on home in the States. I got distracted in a cab as I arrived at my Mexico City hotel and I left my briefcase with my laptop, my cell phone, my house and car keys, my tablet--everything on the cab's back seat.
After the shock of it wore off, I got busy freezing my credit card and making sure any info anybody got off of it out there didn't get used to make things worse. Then, since I didn't now have a laptop, I couldn't check in and confirm tomorrow's flight to Dallas online, I took a cab to the Mexico City airport and confirmed my flight in person at the airline counter there.
Feeling I'd done my best not to overreact and make things worse, and that I'd taken care of what was next, I came back to my hotel. Guess what? That cabbie had CALLED. Mexico City is a city of 22 million people, and I lost my laptop in one in a million, at least--an HONEST CABBIE'S CAB!!!!! Can you believe it?
I called him back, and he was home after a day's work, but he got back in his cab and drove my laptop with everything in it (cell phone, car and house keys, etc.) still in it intact. I paid him a reward, but money alone could never repay this guy. I sang his praises, and promised myself I would sing his praises here, too.
It's really amazing to me, a real miracle--no kidding.
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
How wonderful it was to read this as soon as i woke up now in the middle of the night.
i am so glad you got your stuff back.
Thank you for the reminder that good people do exist!
Your story has warmed my heart,my friend.
Thank you!
It's 4am now and I'm back at the Mexico City airport again. My early bird red-eye discount flight back to the States leaves in an hour. I'm using airport wifi to be connected to DS PTSD right now so I probably will when I change planes in the States on my way home, too.
Just in case I wanted to say yeah, I know bad people exist. The guy that threw the bomb at my family's car when I was 9 locked eyes with me first and threw it anyway. I've met bad people.
He wasn't the last one, either. That civil war I grew up in as a missionary kid went on for another 6 years, and there was another traumatic combat episode like that on the mission field every week.
But good people do exist. If I'm going to attach blame for the bad one, I'm going to give credit to the good ones. Lots of credit due here.
Standing ovation from North of the Rio Grande. . . Thank you for the twinkling star in my morning. It is the perfect accessory for the full moon that has my flocks agitated.