“Hyejin has been a resident of the Liberty Village neighbourhood in Toronto for the past nine years but has a new fondness for her neighbours after a stressful hour of looking for a missing phone wallet.
Having left her home near Strachan Avenue and Liberty Street last Thursday evening for a walk, Hyejin decided to run back when she got stuck in a downpour with a broken umbrella.
She was nearly home when she realized that her right pocket where she usually kept her phone wallet felt especially light.
Her phone, debit and credit cards, driver’s license and health card were all gone.
‘I realized it pretty quickly and started to retrace my steps but could not find it and went into a full-on panic mode,’ Hyejin wrote in a post to her neighbourhood Facebook group.
‘That’s when this guy who was standing outside in one of these new condo buildings saw me, asked me what was wrong and he offered to help me find it saying, “Folks around here are quite honest. I wouldn’t worry too much. Let me help you,” and came out to search with me in the rain and went into his building to ask security in case someone had turned it in.’
This wouldn’t be the only kind stranger she’d encounter that night.
Continuing her search down the street, it was then that Hyejin saw a homeless man smoking a cigarette with nothing to protect him from the weather but a black trash bag.
He let her know that he saw someone pick up her phone wallet and that the finder was probably on his way to return it to her at that moment.
‘That’s when he actually said, “I’m so sorry that you’re going through this, you must be so stressed out,”‘ Hyejin told blogTO. ‘I almost choked up when he said it because he was out there sheltering himself from the rain yet saying these things. How amazing.’…..”
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