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Christmas Bummer: Mom of 5 Puts X-Mas Presents in Wrong Car – Gifts Gone Forever
Christmas Presents GONE!
This is something that happens to most. You’re trying to get through the holiday season hoping that some fiasco doesn’t happen, like you get horribly sick with a stomach flu, you completely forget to buy your youngest a present, or you accidently take a bite out of the a fruitcake that’s been circulating for six or seven years. But usually (hopefully) these things don’t happen, but when they do, boy does it sting, especially since it’s around the holidays.
Linda Gipson is having one of those seasons. The mom of five escaped to do some last minute Christmas shopping when she inadvertently placed her presents in the trunk of the wrong automobile…
She had noticed that the car key was “sticky” but she eventually opened the truck of the car she thought was her daughter’s. She put the presents in and rejoined her family in the mall. Once they got back to the car after their trip she realized her mistake, but the car she put the presents in was gone.
Ms. Gipson had been hoping that the person who discovered the bounty in their car would be a good Samaritan and return the gifts. But she wasn’t so lucky. The person who found the presents took them to the stores they were purchased from and tried to return them all for cash. The total of the presents was about $700.
“It just really crushed me to find out that someone would do such a thing,” she said.
So while you are out and about trying to get those last minute gifts, make sure your putting your stuff in the right car!
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DeservingPorcupine commented on Dec 21 11 at 11:36 pmThe same thing happened to my husband’s grandmother 40 years or so ago. She was sending her son to the car with packages as they shopped at the mall. He loaded them into the wrong car (nobody locked them back then), and didn’t realize it until they were all done shopping. Thankfully, the person discovering the items had a better sense of morals. Through a newspaper article, they were able to connect with each other and return all the gifts. Very sad that the person in this story didn’t try to find the right owner–maybe they thought it was some sort of secret santa?
Jen commented on Dec 22 11 at 9:33 amWhat an a-moral a-hole. Who does that? I hope karma pays the jerk a visit.
Heather commented on Dec 26 11 at 5:37 pmI had something similar happen, only I SAW the person who took my gifts. I went shopping at the mall and while I was waiting for the bus some girls pulled up to “ask me for directions,” then one knocked me down while the other grabbed all my bags (with receipts still inside them) and they both took off in the car. Apparently they’d planned it, because several people tried to get their tag # but couldn’t because they’d covered it up. The cops still managed to find them (they were teenagers, and their parents turned them in) but they had returned many of the items for cash, and despite the fact that I got the cash back, I was unable to re-purchase most of the items because they’d already been sold.
erica commented on Dec 26 11 at 7:30 pmYeah ok she put them in the wrong car sure.
Sanriobaby =^.^= commented on Dec 27 11 at 1:52 pmThis does seem crazy, but w/the craziness of the holidays, I can see how this can happen to a very distracted person. That’s why I rather hold all of my bags if possible and I always carry my reciepts in my wallet just in case I lose a bag and the person who found it doesn’t try to return it can’t go back and try to get cash back on it. It’s shameful that in times like these, the other person didn’t even try to find the rightful owner of these gifts. Karma does collect on it’s debts though, so they’ll get thiers eventually…
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