11 years ago, Ford Motor Company employee Richard Guilford of Michigan was working on a Ford Edge when his wallet fell out of his shirt pocket into the open hood of the car.
It was a while before he noticed it was missing, and with 2000 cars on the floor of the plant, he and his buddies at work soon had to give up the hunt for the missing wallet, giving up all hope of ever finding it.
That is, until a few weeks ago, when he got a Facebook message from an auto mechanic in Minnesota. The shop owner, Chad Volk, had removed the SUV's airbox and was attempting to put it back into place when he found the wallet sitting on top of the transmission, just where it had fallen 11 years and 150,000 miles ago.
He pulled the wallet out and found Guilford's employee ID, as well as $15 and $250 in Cabela's gift cards. It didn't take him long to track down Guilford on Facebook and ask if he was the owner of the wallet.
Guilford told KARE11 News that when he got the message out of the blue,
The first thing I said was, ‘Did you find that in a car?'
That reply was enough confirmation for Volk, who mailed the wallet back to Guilford. Volk refused a reward, saying that returning the wallet was the right thing to do, and that was "Just the way I was raised."
Guilford said he called Cabela's to see if they would still honor his gift cards that he had planned to use to buy his kids' Christmas gifts. The company confirmed the cards were still good, so Christmas just came a few years late.
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