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Band of gold leads to a heart of gold Man returns woman's accidental gift Date published: 1/13/2010
Sitting in traffic on State Route 3 last week, Lisa Shelton did what she always does. When she noticed a man holding a sign asking for help, she reached toward her car door for some change.
Coming up with nothing, she grabbed change from her wallet, handed it out the window and went on her way. When she got back to work, she panicked. Earlier last Wednesday, when she put lotion on her hands, she'd put all her rings in her wallet's change purse. When she went to put them back on, they were all there. Except one. Her wedding ring, inscribed with the words, "To the love of my life," by Robert, her husband of five years, was gone. "I thought I'd taken all the rings out of the coins," she said. "But the wedding band wasn't there." Shelton, who lives in Stafford County, immediately went back out to Route 3. The man was gone. Meanwhile, Andy Foster had left his post on Route 3 to go warm up at a friend's house. Foster, 43, has been homeless for a while, after living arrangements with a friend, then a girlfriend didn't work out. He hasn't worked in three years, since he was injured in a wreck. Then he lost a finger in a chain-saw accident. He gets food stamps, goes to the free clinic for his medical needs. Sometimes he uses the money he's given to rent a motel room for the night; other times he bunks with friends. He has put in job applications "everywhere," he said, "but in this economy, no one's hiring." Back at his friend's house last week, he reached in his pocket to count his change and found the ring. "I knew right away it wasn't a cheap ring," he said. "I was going to go back out and hope that she'd drive back by so I could give it back. I told my cousin that I had to find her." Shelton was also looking for Foster, though she knew nothing more than that he had been wearing an Army jacket and had a beard. A different man was standing in that spot in the Route 3 median now. He didn't know who had been there before him, but thought another man, a few lights down, might.
Date published: 1/13/2010
I'm glad you got your ring back. God Bless you for caring about those who are less fortunate. People always say to me "you know they are gonna spend that money on alcohol or drugs". My response is usually that it's not my decision what they spend it on once I have handed it to them. I can just do the right thing and hope that the receiver does as well. Pay it forward!!!!!
All I know is Andy gave my ring back.... and I think I was pretty safe in the broad daylight with all of those 100 d's of people driving by pretending like they don't see him or any of the others..... just think if what happened in Haiti happened here, hell you could be standing right next to Andy!!!! :) Peace!
That was right on time!
because the guy was exposed to formaldehyde. LOL!
Are the kid(s) he fathered yours. If not, it's really none of your business. I understand the frustration at parents who don't pay child support but that has nothing to do with this article. You have yet to identify any reason why someone would not be safe rolling their window down to hand this man a buck or two. You put yourself out there as such a charitable person on Fredtalk, yet you come here and try deter people from being charitable. Guess it's only worthy when it's one of your causes.
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