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This is why you should do good things for other people.

This evening, Marques and I left the apartment to go laptop bag shopping for my new laptop -  wheeeee!  As I stepped into the parking lot, I noticed a brown leather wallet on the ground.  I immediately bend down and pick it up and look inside to see if it was anybody we knew.  Unfortunately, no.

The next step was to go to the leasing office so they could get her name from her license and go to her apartment and give it back to her.  Unfortunately, when I got there, they had apparently decided to close early for the day.  Ugh.

I look through her wallet, hoping to find a business card of some sort, or some sort of card with her address on it (her license was an out-of-state license).  No dice.  So I decide I’m going to knock on some doors in our building and find this girl because I know that if I had lost my wallet, I would be on the phone with Wachovia, crying profusely.

So we start knocking on some doors.  A lot of people weren’t home yet.  Finally, after the fifth or sixth door, we find her, and I give her back her wallet.  She didn’t really thank us, which I found a bit odd, nor did she seem all that grateful, but I chalked it up to disbelief in the fact that she dropped her wallet in the parking lot.  Good deed done for the day, no money stolen.  As we were on our way to Target, I told Marques, “Good karma will come back to us for what we just did.”

At Target, I’m searching for a laptop bag.  I am reluctant to spend more than $35, but the shelves are not making that very easy for me.  Everything is 50 or 60 dollars.  I am annoyed.

I finally find a purse-type bag on clearance for $27.98.  It’s not bad, comfortable, kind of cute even.  I decide on it, partly due to the fact that it’s 28 dollars, and head for the checkout.

When it rings up, it rings up $9.98.  The first thing that goes through both of our heads is, “This is because of the wallet.”  I pay, take my bag, check the numbers to make sure it hadn’t been mistagged, and head home.

Do good things for people for whatever your reason.  I would’ve returned that wallet with or without my awesome laptop bag discount.  But I firmly stand by what you put into the universe comes back to you - this I believe.