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Lesley Ventre's avatar

2 years ago I was grocery shopping when a man came up beside me and asked me a question about peanutbutter. Startled because he was so close to me, I turned to face him and answered his questions. He put some peanutbutter in his cart and walked away then. Some voice I heard said "that was not right, check your purse", which I had sitting in the top of the grocery cart. I looked down and there was my purse seemingly OK. The voice said "open your purse", so I did and my wallet was missing. I took off running toward the front of the store and saw the man casually walking out the door. I yelled as loud as I could and he took off running with 2 others. The store manager called the police. We were in the store office waiting for the police to come when I got a FaceBook messenger alert from a name I did not know. I thought it was odd. The voice said "open the message" and it was someone asking if I had lost a wallet. They had found it on the street when they were stopped at a traffic light and the cards inside had my name listed, so they looked to see if they could find me online somewhere. I told the police officer about it when he arrived. He said message them back so I did. The police got their number and called, went to their home and came back with my wallet. It was completely intact, nothing missing. There was no cash in it, just credit and debit cards. The thieves threw the wallet out the car window about a mile away from the store. I kept my cash in a seperate part of my purse. The cards were never used by them. The security tape showed the one man distracted me with questions to make me turn away from my cart, while another got into my purse and took the wallet, while a 3rd was at the end of the aisle as a lookout. I only ever saw 1 of them. I was very fortunate to hear that voice and be able to act quickly. Oddly, the thieves did not exit the nearest door but walked all the way across to the other side to exit. That allowed me to be able to see them when I came out of the aisle heading toward the front of the store. Even the police officer thought it was odd they didn't use the nearest exit. I would not have been able to see them had they used the nearest exit. The little wallet was given to me by my sister as a Christmas gift. It has a picture of a cardinal on it. My mom loved cardinals and when I see or hear one I think of her. I'm not sure if it was her voice or a guardian angel helping me that day. The police officer told me this had happened to a few others in the area, but the women had no idea their walllets were gone until they got to the checkout and opened their purses. By that time, the thieves were long gone and had used their cards to rack up thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. I have no idea why they didn't try to use my credit or debit cards but instead just discarded them. Someone was definately watching out for me that day.

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Nancy Carlson's avatar

Thank you for sharing that..🥰

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