I have an announcement to make. But it all has to be prefaced by the following: Dan is always right. Now that we have that out of the way, I can get to my story.
Yesterday, I got into work, still feeling awful that I'd lost my son's Nintendo DS games.
I had talked with Dan on Monday night, and he had suggested that I call the movie theatre. He said "you never know, maybe someone found them and turned them in". In my typical pessimistic way, I poopoo'd (is that a word? Apparently it's not. But it should be) the idea, thinking no one would return such a valuable thing. I mean, one Nintendo game costs around $25 to 30 bucks new! There were nine of them in this case.
Yesterday morning I posted my blog about losing the games. I linked the blog to my Facebook account. A lot of people here and in Facebook suggested I call around to see if anyone turned them in. Someone even suggested I call the grocery store specifically.
Having only but a shred of faith left in mankind, I called the grocery store and asked if they'd found a small case with a bunch of kid's games in them.
They had them.
Can you believe this? Someone turned them in on Saturday and the courtesy desk had kept them in case we came back for them.
So, I went on my Facebook link, and I told the people who had commented there that I had found them. I specifically thanked the person who had suggested the grocery store, because it hadn't occurred to me at all that we lost them there.
Dan then commented. I'd like to share our Facebook exchange with you all here.