A Wonderfully Honest Person in Brownsville

Blazita, the cashier at A & V Lopez on Boca Chica,  looked at me sort of quizzically.  "I don't know how to ask this, but did you lose your wallet?"

"Well, yes, as a matter of fact."  I replied.

"I thought it was you.  I found it on the ground at a service station.  I tried to find your house from the address, but I couldn't.  So, I've been carrying it in my truck for two weeks."

We waited for Blazita to finish with a flurry of customers.  Then, she ran out to her truck.  My wife, Nena, took all the loose cash we had to give her something for her trouble, conscientiousness and honesty.

"No, no. no!  God will reward me!"  as she refused the money Nena tried to hand her.

As we drove off, Nena checked the wallet.  The cash was gone, of course, but everything else seemed to be there:  drivers license, passport, social security card, debit card, library card, discount card from Feldmann's, voter's registration, pictures of my grandbaby, a TAD for TSC card, business cards from Gilbert Velasquez, Mike Kendall et al.

Thank you Blazita!  You're beyond honest!