Mary’s Minute
“There
are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad
people. It's just always been that way.”
~ Michael Nesmith
This quote precisely
sums up the story I wanted to share this week. At the end of my
somewhat hectic story, I was left with a feeling that there is more good (much
more good) than bad in the world!
Last week I was at a
conference in Indianapolis and during a reception staged in an open lobby area
of the Westin I hung my coat on the rack provided. I left the
reception, leaving my coat behind for another meeting in the same
hotel. When I received a fraud alert that my credit card that I left
in the coat pocket, along with my driver’s license and a little cash, was being
used, I rushed to the coat rack to find my coat and its contents gone.
The Westin front desk
clerk, Cooper, quickly involved the security supervisor, who started watching
surveillance video. In the meantime I Ubered to my hotel to avoid
the cold without my coat. (Sidebar – I Pricelined and stayed at a
different hotel to save $$.) About an hour later I received a call
from Justin who told me he had good news and bad news. He had
recovered my coat, but not the contents. I had already cancelled my
credit card and knew I could easily get a replacement license, so I wasn’t
disappointed. The great part of the story is that Justin tracked
down the people who took my coat (found them swimming in the hotel pool) with
the woman in the group wearing my coat! It gets even better –
Cooper, the desk clerk, delivered my coat to me! I was overwhelmed
by their good, which for me far out-weighed the negativity of losing my cc and
license.
This story is not about
a cold night in Indy, but about all the good there is in the
world. We may get discouraged when we watch the news, with our jobs,
or with the students in our classrooms, but when we look around, we know that
there is much, much more good than bad. I want to focus on the
good!
Have
a great week!
Mary
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