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Trouble is I know there are also dishonest people around. I once left a carrier back containing newly bought bedding and underware from M&S in a ladies loo in Cheltenham (that so called upmarket town). I went back after about 20 minutes, it was not handed in to security card or local shops (It was in a shopping mall) and that was the last I saw of it.

Island, if Rocky's post has been misread how do you transcribe it then please.

Sorry to hear this.
You never know it might turn up yet. It might not even have been stolen,could it have fallen out her bag into the car...down the side,in the boot maybe in a coat pocket etc.
Did she have her name and address in the purse?

Marion

Many years ago we were on holiday in Scotland, on a huge and quite remote very long sandy beach. My daughter, then aged around 13 saw something glint on the soft sand above the tide line. She went to look and found a diamond ring the solitaire diamond was very big. She took it in to the police station when we went shopping in the nearest town, some thirty miles away. Shortly afterwards she got a letter of thanks from the couple whose engagement ring it was, and a £25 reward. They had already claimed the insurance and bought another ring, but of course this one was the one with the real sentimental value...........it occurs to me to wonder whether in those circumstances the couple would have returned the insurance money..........just a thought.
Eileen
birth name

Yes, I realised she was saying give it time but I thought she could have put it a bit more politely than 'give me a break' She could have realised that Vicky was really upset about her daughter and grandson losing this money. And the example Rocky gave was not the same, she was talking about stolen and disgarded purses so the people who had lost them might well have expected them to be handed in when they were originally 'lost' not when they were eventually found.

Hi everyone
what are the chances of it getting handed it especially with the cash in it and not everyone is as honest as maybe we would be which is sad

A sign of the times too with so many desperate to buy family presents and out of work.

yes i can see where your coming from ann
its just so sad maybe if they stopped to think if it was theirs would they want someone to hand it in or keep it as the person that lost it may be in the same boat as themselves

You never know how people's minds work!
Someone who is really hardup or never had £200 in their purse might think on finding the wallet that if someone has £200 in cash with them they are wealthy, and it is pocket money, they don't know it was for a gift, and to them it might seem heaven sent! I am surprised that with being a working woman with presumably a bank account your daughter keeps a large amount of cash in her wallet, and didn't leave it or put it in the bank and buy the laptop with her debit card.

Let's hope it turns up anyway. It could be that it fell out of her bag as she got out of the car near work and someone picked it up, who knows?


Lizx

Thanks Rocky, apology accepted. I was under stress this morning, after a bad night, and worrying about the lad going to the hospital today.

Liz. She doesn't normally carry large amount of money around with her, she has none to.
It was money she had withdrawn to put towards his laptop, and she had put her purse in the car after having taken her debit card out of her purse to avoid carrying her purse with the money in it around the supermarket.
It would appear it must've slipped out of her bag when she lifted it out of the car. The sum total was £255. Thankfully she still has her debit card.
HER CAR HAS BEEN STRIPPED, THE SHOPS HAVE BEEN CALLED, THE CAR PARK HAS BEEN SWEPT TWICE AND NOTHING HAS BEEN FOUND. I HOPE THIS CLEARS THE FACT THAT SHE HAS DONE EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO FIND IT. THE POLICE TOLD HER NOT TO HOLD HER BREATH FOR IT BEING HANDED IN.

Chill out..we only asked lol.
I hope it turns up though.