We had a long time occasional customer, that wanted some fish we didn't have.
My wife told him she could get some, but it would take her 12 to 15 minutes.
He said he wanted it, she left to get it and the customer decided to walk the marina
while waiting.
I got another couple customers and one noticed a wallet setting on the bench,
she ask a customer that just left and he said no it wasn't his, but it was the
fellow that walked down the marina. She placed it back where she got it. I was
busy with shop duties when I got two Mexican customers, they ordered two lbs of shrimp.
My wife returned with the fish while I was waiting on them.
They left and within short time I noticed the wallet was gone. I said something
to my wife and she said, we need to follow them.
I took off in my vehicle looking for a large blue pickup truck. I went the
direction I thought they might go. I caught up with a blue truck about 4 miles
down the road, but it wasn't them. My wife called me, by this time the fellow
that lost the wallet was back and found out his wallet was gone. I told my wife
where I was and she said, "I don't think they went that way, come on back to the shop,
I'm going to look at the local Latino store and then drive over to a neighborhood
where a lot of the Mexicans live."
I got back to the shop and talked with the lost wallet customer for a while,
he had called the cops and within a few minutes a female officer showed up, ask
a few questions and then my wife called and said, "I got it"
She went through the neighborhood and saw a blue truck, she reached way up on
the hood and it was still hot, she thought she was at the right place!
She knocked on the door, someone peeked through the curtains, then the door opened,
a hand stuck out with a wallet in it, "I tried to call you, I left a message." (not)
She grabbed the wallet, hopped back in her van and came back to the shop.
The customer that lost the wallet said there wasn't any money in it to take,
but he's a vet, it had his military stuff plus all the usual credit cards, license.
I'm going to keep my eye on this customer, he told my wife he loved her three times!
Did I mention my wife is all off 4'7" tall and has no fear.
* Maybe a little crazy to.
