COMMENT: Lost wallet incident renews my faith in S’pore
COMMENT
Say what you will but, sometimes, I feel truly grateful about living in Singapore.
I was at Gourmet Paradise at HDB Hub in Toa Payoh for dinner on Monday night. My dinner companion and I got there at about 8pm. We had a quick dinner because we needed to do some housework before bedtime. We left the food court at about 845pm and I did not realise then that I had left my wallet behind on the table.
It was only at 9am the next day when I was on my way to work that I discovered that my wallet was missing and I could not take the train to work because my EZ-link card was in there. I retraced my steps and remembered that the last time I saw my wallet was after I paid for dinner.
I walked back to the food court on a gamble. First, I approached the cleaners there and asked them if they saw a black wallet on the table where I last sat. They immediately informed the management office and directed me there. They told me that even if I did not get it back, there were CCTV cameras all over the food court and there might be footage of the person who could have picked it up.
When I got to the office, there was polite PRC girl who was managing the counter. She directed me to a chair and asked me to sit down. She asked me several questions about the colour and the make of my wallet and then took out my wallet from a file cabinet. She then took my NRIC and asked me a couple of questions about the wallet to verify that I was indeed the owner of the wallet.
When I got my wallet back, I was so relieved.
Everything was intact, all my credit cards, EZ-link card and reward cards, including the paltry S$12 that I had inside.
I wanted to give all the money I had in the wallet as a reward, but the girl refused to accept it and she even declined to tell me which cleaner at the food court had retrieved it and turned it to the admin office.
I just feel so lucky to get my wallet back and am grateful to discover that there are indeed honest people in Singapore.
I also checked my bank accounts online afterwards and no illegal online purchase were made on my cards.
I know all is not well in Singapore and we are far from being a perfect society. But it is incidents like these that truly warm my heart and make me thankful for living on this tiny red dot.
