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Finders are keepers, but only for a year

Losing your driver’s licence or other identification is an incredibly annoying experience.

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Christina Egan
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Losing your driver’s licence or other identification is an incredibly annoying experience. Aside from the fact that some stranger now has your personal details, you’re also forced to report the incident to the police and reissue the ID in question. For an American college student, however, the experience left her with a surprisingly funny story to tell.

Christina Egan, 21, a recent graduate of Columbia University misplaced her driver’s licence in 2015 at a bar in Manhattan, where she was living at the time. Though she had assumed it lost for good, she recently received a postcard in the mail, with her old licence and a thank you note. In her photo of the package, posted on Facebook, the note reads, “Found this on the floor of a bar about a year ago, hope you don’t mind I used it for awhile. But now I’m 21 so you can have it back! Thanks.” 

Apparently the underage person who found Egan’s ID was using it to gain entry to bars. And yet, to return the ID to its owner a year later, instead of just tossing it in the trash, as well as writing a thank you note is still both strange and pleasantly surprising. “I don’t know how it got all the way upstate! I thought it was absolutely hilarious. No hard feelings to the anonymous girl. It was also sweet of the girl to send such nice stationary,” Egan told Mashable in a written response.

As expected, the note was sent with no return address, so the Good Samaritan (or is it miscreant here?) couldn’t be identified. If nothing else, at least the graduate now has a story to tell about the time her licence travelled across Manhattan for a year.

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