Perfect Stranger

This morning we decided to walk around Lake Chabot.  It’s about 5 minutes from our house and it really is a gorgeous place to walk.  Many people use the trails for jogging, walking and biking and it’s a great place to greet people.  Nearly everyone we passed smiled and wished us good morning!

Since we drove to the lake this morning, my husband tucked his driver’s license into his pants pocket along with his cell phone.  We stopped at one location to take some pictures and his license dropped out.  We didn’t realize it was missing until we arrived at home – about an hour later.

We went back to the lake to see if we could find it – it would have been where we parked or where we stopped to take photos.  We checked at the entrance gate and also at the marina, it had not been turned in.

We headed up the trail to the place where we’d stopped before and searched everywhere.  No license!  We decided that Ken would continue up the trail and I would go back to the marina and leave our phone number in case someone found it and turned it in.

While coming back down the trail – without his license, a perfect stranger looked at him and smiled.  Ken knew it – this man had found his license, but before he could say anything, this man said, “Ken?”  Sure enough, he’d found it where we had stopped for photos and was planning on turning it in.  On their walk back down together, Ken learned a little bit about this fine gentleman, they talked and laughed together.  It was amazing. 

It’s a wonderful thing to realize that someone you don’t know was looking out for you the whole time.  It’s definitely something that makes you smile…..a perfect stranger!

J