Shedding your wallet is a hopeless feeling, specially when you assume it is long gone for great.
But for 61-year-old Dee Harkrider of Forrest Town, Arkansas, the seemingly extremely hard occurred soon after she dropped her wallet in a Walmart parking whole lot — and the incident has led her to the most unlikely of friendships.
Delivontae Johnson, 19, pulled into the retail giant’s good deal to get his tire preset when he noticed a wallet on the floor.
Immediately after acquiring the Harkrider’s ID, he quickly appeared her up on Facebook and despatched her a message. But she did not respond appropriate absent, so, as any social media sleuth would do, Johnson messaged the person tagged in Harkrider’s profile image.
From there, Johnson learned that Harkrider experienced gone to a friend’s property, and in an act of selfless support, Johnson drove to a cafe parking ton in Palestine, Arkansas to return the wallet in man or woman.
“Thank you does not come even shut to the gratitude I truly feel for this younger man whom I satisfied only now,” Harkrider penned in a heartfelt Fb put up alongside a selfie she snapped with Johnson just after the two fulfilled in particular person.
“He went out of his way and satisfied me and gave me my wallet back. A close friend explained to me I was lucky. I advised her no, God was observing out for me. Delivontae Johnson, I pray that God bless you over and above any evaluate!! Now I have a new buddy!”
In a later put up, Harkrider shared that she fulfilled with Johnson’s mom, Rachel Johnson, for lunch and that she is “blessed to simply call her a buddy now.”
“I’m wanting forward to conference much more of her loved ones, in particular her mom,” Harkrider wrote. “Immediately after viewing with her nowadays, I can see why Delivontae is the younger male he is these days!”
As for 19-12 months-outdated Johnson, he is remaining humble about the problem — he just wished to enable out.
“I took it on myself to go out the way, and I just required to do anything which is a fantastic deed,” he informed Right now in an interview.
Appears like there is fairly some excellent still left in the entire world immediately after all.
