WAITER RETURNS WALLET AND MONEY

NOTE TO SELF: Sometimes a good deed by a stranger gives a person faith in humanity.



Tourist, Thomas McCauley, was nervous in as far as crime is concerned when visiting New Orleans for a medical convention. He somehow lost his wallet stuffed with $8,000 he'd won at a local casino and presumed his pocked had been picked.

However, good samaritan, waiter Al Castro, found the wallet stuck in a booth that had been used by McCauley. Now he could have kept it and no one would have been the wiser but instead he returned it much to McCauley shock.

McCauley had stashed the cash, won Thursday at Harrah's New Orleans Casino, in a spare wallet, with no ID that he carries, in case his pocket is picked. His friends back home had warned him about that possibility. After dinner and a show, he realized the wallet was gone.

McCauley said Castro, who'd waited on him and his friend, turned over the wallet as they rushed back into the restaurant.

When asked why return a wallet with no ID, Castro said McCauley was a "gentlemen" and I put myself in his shoes.

"Plus," he said, "my wife's been telling me she believes in karma. Good things happen to people to who do good things."

Amen brother!

McCauley said Castro refused his offer of a reward. But Harrah's general manager said, "we're going to take care of him."

There are good people in this world who do good deeds because they want to, period. For his generous act, we salute waiter, AL CASTRO!