There are some stories that must be told and after I constantly tell people about this particular one, I realized it wasn't on here! What do you think about this?
About 2 months ago my parents came to visit. One place we went of course was Ayutthaya, the ancient city. ( Look up Biking Through History from my old blog about this city) I had emptied out my entire wallet so I wasn't carrying around unnecessary papers. I slipped it in the drawer of the night stand in the hotel room. We did our tour and two days later got on a plane for our next adventure. I pulled out my wallet once we got on and there it was, the reminder that my entire semesters savings were sitting back in the hotel room. Right away the attendant realized I was freaking out and came over right away. With in minutes she was on the phone with the hotel and they had arranged for an email conversation with me and the hotel, as well as arranging a place to mail my things if they found it. The plane landed and the flight attendant gave me her phone number and wished me luck. The next day I received an email from the woman at the hotel to inform me of the exact contents that were found which included 9,120 baht, 2 credit cards and business cards. They hadn't touched a penny! Or I suppose a baht! Ha. We had arranged a time and place to mail my things and that was that. These people were already amazing to me. Then I got another email a few days before we were heading back to Bangkok, anxiously waiting to get my money back, that read they thought it would be best to hand deliver my package. The last morning of the trip, I sat in the lobby and out in the rain pulled up a bright pink taxi. I boy popped out, couldn't be any older than me, and ran in the door wiping off his shirt. He stood there while I untied the string on the package. Inside was another package. I ripped that right open. Finally after the layers had been peeled I pulled out the contents in the manila envelope. In my hands exactly as I had put it in the drawer was a stake of papers, money and credit cards. I'd never been so happy. I definitely paid for his 2 hour taxi ride back and something for actually bringing it too me! But even more I couldn't believe there had been people that would be so honest and go to such lengths to return my things back safely.
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