Fairfax Lumber-Where Nice People Shop and Miracles Happen

Last Friday morning I lost $100.00 in or around Fairfax Lumber. I could count on both hands how often I even have that much money on me. This was a rare occasion where I was "loaded for bear" or-rather-"loaded for rodents" as rats had gotten into my crawl space the night before. 

When I got up to the cash register with my armload of steel wool, there was no money to be found in my deep secure front pocket. I was horrified. Not a good start, but I had to carry on, patch the possible rodent entrances  and get to work. 

After an obsessive hour of looking for the money, I needed to "reframe" the situation and get on. "Well, someone has had a good day already." I hoped that whomever found the money really, really needed it and would benefit by it.

Nearly 24 hours later- a VERY long work day and short night kept up again by the rodents, I went back to FFX Lumber, this time to up the ante and get snap traps. My inner dialog was "are you going to be brave enough to ask the cashier if anyone turned in $100. yesterday? Well, prob not but if there aren't a lot of people around, maybe." 

I get up to the cashier, glance around me and decide to go for it. "I'm going to ask you a very dumb question-cashier looks at me and smiles-"I lost $100. in here yesterday and I've been asking myself, well, what would I do, and I just wondered if by CHANCE anyone might have reported finding some money here?" She did look at me like I was nuts and I could hear the man behind me start to giggle. 

The cashier then slowly reached over and pulled out a card from a stack of papers. "Well....actually...a retired policeman came in yesterday saying he had found a lot of money here-he didn't say how much-but he did leave his number..." My heart stopped. Another cashier came over and whispered "Is this about THE MONEY?" 

Already long story made shorter, I called, he called me back and said he had found my money. Five twenties wadded up. At first he thought it was just a few dollars, but when he got home he realized it was a lot more. "Someone is having a bad day" he thought. "What would I wish someone would do if I had lost it?" So-he went all the way back to Fairfax Lumber and left his card.

Fairfax Lumber-where Nice People Shop and Miracles Happen! Thanks Todd, and thanks to all the people at Fairfax Lumber for continuing to provide us locals with such a sense of neighborhood.