View Full Version : My "Lost" pay packet
munkygunn182
07-12-10, 12:38 PM
I'd like to say a massive thanks to a Mr Walker of Versko in Glasgow.
Yesterday (06/12/2010) I was walking the 15 miles home from uni as there was no public transport at that moment in time. About 0.5 miles into the journey I put my hand into my back pocket, and found my pay packet, worth 30 hours, was gone. Retraced my steps and couldn't find it so resigned myself to the fact that it was a goner.
This morning I wake up to a missed call from my work, when I phoned them back, they said a guy had found my pay packet lying on the pavement and had googled the company on the pay slip to get in touch.
So all in all, I've not lost a weeks wages, there's still some goodness left in Glasgow! I am forever in the guys debt!
Rob Walker, You sir are a legend!
gruntygiggles
07-12-10, 12:40 PM
Yay...I love this story. Restores faith in humanity and all that, but more importantly...you get your wages on the run up to Christmas! :-)
Fab Munky!
Shellywoozle
07-12-10, 12:40 PM
Aww brill news, some good people still about, alot would have pocketed that !!
I take it you didnt feel it fall out your pocket as you had a frozen botty :)
timwilky
07-12-10, 12:43 PM
Years ago I lost my wallet containing several hundred in Preston. When I got home, my bank phoned. A guy had contacted them using the details on my cheque guarantee card. I went up to his house, roughest council estate in Preston, He would not accept anything for his honesty.
So I went back that night left a bottle of good scotch on his door step with a thank you card and rang the doorbell.
It is nice to know there are still honest people in the world.
Milky Bar Kid
07-12-10, 12:53 PM
Good news Craig!!!! I suppose we don't give people enough credit for things like this. He defo needs a bottle of whiskey or something for this!
Awesome news... I always make a point of picking stuff up, normally dropped hats, gloves or scarfs at this time of year then tieing them to the nearest hand rail of lamp post.
Not on the same league as hundreds of pounds but it makes me feel good.
I lost a glove once, I was gutted I couldn't find it.
munkygunn182
07-12-10, 01:19 PM
Yep i've to go and see him at his office tomorrow, and the first question's gonna be "what do you drink" at which point i'll run off to my favourite alchymahol shop, and get him a rather large bottle. It'd have been all too easy for him to have pocketed the ~£250 and thought no more of it!
thats excellent news Craig. a very well done to Mr Walker for being such an honest person.
husky03
07-12-10, 02:04 PM
quality
munkygunn182
07-12-10, 02:06 PM
And it means i've got a few more beer tokens for edinburgh!
whiskey
:( :smt092 For the love of God, No!
And it means i've got a few more beer tokens for edinburgh!
thats even better news :D
appollo1
07-12-10, 03:17 PM
That is great to hear that there are some decent people around especially at this time of year.
As i was coming out of McD's in Dundee on saturday the lady in front of me picked something up from the ground and it was a wad of money. She handed it straight to one of the members of staff who walked through the ice and snow to give it to the manager. It would be so easy for people to just put it in their pocket and spend it at the next shop.
munkygunn182
07-12-10, 03:51 PM
Yeah, Glasgow is 99% people who would pocket it, as are most towns I suppose, but sometimes you get lucky and its the other 1% that pick it up!
And it means i've got a few more beer tokens for edinburgh!
so despite your reprieve you decide to **** up up the wall...?
munkygunn182
07-12-10, 03:54 PM
Only a single note from it, maybe two, but the remainder will end up in the bank by 2pm tomorrow
He defo needs a bottle of whiskey or something for this!
He may prefer a bottle of Whisky ;)
munkygunn182
07-12-10, 04:06 PM
It's gotta be the whisky, not the whiskey :p
He's a Scot so probably won't drink;)
davepreston
07-12-10, 05:36 PM
lottery ticket i think with him a 50% stake holder
I found a wallet once in the middle of the road. I didn't even bother to look inside it but handed it in to the police. The officer opened it and there must have been around £200 in it. There was no ID in it. What's the betting the wallet didn't get back to its owner?
I found a wallet once in the middle of the road. I didn't even bother to look inside it but handed it in to the police. The officer opened it and there must have been around £200 in it. There was no ID in it. What's the betting the wallet didn't get back to its owner?
Tsk, what are you suggesting....
Kilted Ginger
07-12-10, 06:59 PM
I found a wallet once in the middle of the road. I didn't even bother to look inside it but handed it in to the police. The officer opened it and there must have been around £200 in it. There was no ID in it. What's the betting the wallet didn't get back to its owner?
if it didnt then after 3 months (iirc) it would have been returned to you.
when i was a mere whippersnapper i found a wallet and handed it in, police took my name etc.
2 weeks later the sargent turned up at our door with a massive bag of sweeties:cyclops: for me. bought by the cops. the "gentleman who had collected the wallet £180 (1985ish) had declined the Sargent advice to leave a reward. My dad found out later from friends in the force the "gentleman" had had a lot of expense following this in the way of parking tickets, car lights not working etc. :D
Quiff Wichard
07-12-10, 07:04 PM
I found a pay packet once with £300 in it .
the bugger had taken a sick day too that week or it would have been more !
dam
if it didnt then after 3 months (iirc) it would have been returned to you.
I wasn't asked for any details other than where I found it. I was not asked any details regarding myself and I offered none.
I should add this was many many years ago when I was in my teens and unawares of the rules and regulations of such matters.
JamesMio
07-12-10, 07:57 PM
if it didnt then after 3 months (iirc) it would have been returned to you.
when i was a mere whippersnapper... (1985ish)
Typo?
1965?
Typo?
1965?
You're going to get such a smack:D
Strange.. My missus finds my pay packet in my bank account ever month and doesn't give it back..
Strange times indeed... :0)
loonytoon
08-12-10, 12:41 PM
there is still a few genuine people out there but they are very few most would just pocket it.
munkygunn182
08-12-10, 04:03 PM
Well, i'm just back from Glasgow, pay packet returned and intact, I see our Mr Walker actually started a blog about his mission to track me down!
I see our Mr Walker actually started a blog about his mission to track me down!
Where's that then?
Good on him. I lost my very first paypacket when I was a lad (stuck it in the overalls "pocket" and it dropped out my trouser leg!).
Someone also turned that in to the Police which was very decent of them. They probably felt sorry for me - 70p an hour.
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