A one-in-six million chance?
At ALA in Chicago, three of the Credo team (Mike Sweet, Jenny Walker and Anne Kail) jumped in a cab to get to a meeting. As the cab sped away they discovered a wallet dropped by the previous occupant. There was no contact number to be found, so Jenny handed it over to ALA as the owner was a member and they could perhaps contact her.
What are the chances? Of all the shuttle buses plowing back and forth every hour (have you been to ALA?!) two rows behind her on one of those buses the following day, Anne heard a woman on the phone telling her husband that the wallet had been found but maybe they should cancel the credit cards, just in case. Anne turned around, and explained why there was no need to cancel the cards.
Much laughter on the bus as the owner called back her husband with the good news. She told him that she’d been concerned about the cash, too, but friends had told her not to worry – this was ALA, and the wallet would be found by a ‘library-type person’ (with all that that implied).
“I just knew that it would get to the owner,” said Jenny, “the (ALA) staff were so concerned.”
Don’t lovely coincidences like this brighten up a day?
