From: www.reuters.co.uk Woman gets lost wallet back -- 40 years later STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A wallet lost in southern Sweden more than 40 years ago has been returned to its owner -- with her cash still in it. Gulli Wihlborg was 18 when she dropped it while cycling in the town of Trelleborg in the summer of 1963. The wallet contained 45.54 crowns -- a sum she said was half her monthly rent at the time -- receipts and photographs. Its equivalent in today's money is about 412 crowns (30.5 pounds). It arrived in the mail at her home of 25 years in the nearby city of Malmo with a handwritten note, saying: "Dear Gulli, never give up hope. Here is the wallet you dropped on Ostersjogatan (a street) many years ago. Greetings from Trelleborg." "I find it quite fantastic," she told regional newspaper Trelleborgs Allehanda. The sender remained unknown. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jh ... ction=news
I'm just wondering - who kept it for those 40 years for I doubt it was lying in the street all that time. Makes me wonder if that person kept it for those 40 years solely for the "never loose hope" message.
Maybe it was "lost" in the mail system all that time? If their mail system is anything like Canada's, I wouldn't be surprised. I sent a small package to a friend of mine in Alberta, CA, and it took almost 6 weeks for it to finally get to her.
Heh, I lost my wallet about a month ago and got it back a week later. Guess I should be happy that I didn't have to wait until I got retired before I got it back. :lol: Hell, why can't people learn to spell? It should be Malmö and Östersjögatan damnit. Not having the letter Ö on the keyboard doesn't qualify as a viable excuse. Let's just say that weirder things has occured. In regards to that, I've heard some people say that we're quite similar to Canada in many respects. Oh shit, now I've said too much. *takes cover from the anti-Canadians*
I once found a wallet in a lake that contained Id's, credit cards, and $13. When I returened it to the guy he said he had lost it for a year. Didn't get a damn cent for returning it. Just "thanks" and a slam of the door.
It regularly took 6 weeks for me to send letters home while I was at boarding school. Of course, "home" at that time was the Middle East, but still. Oh yeah, it was also really funny when I made the $1.50 in stamps needed from 5c and 10c stamps. I had to stick them all around the address, and it covered the entire front of the envelope.
