Holiday spoiled by purse snatcher

Dear Editor: On Thursday, I was on the 97 bus to UBCO heading first to Queensway. I got off at Queensway only to discover my coin purse containing $20, my Coast Capital Savings debit card, my Scene points card and my compass card bus pass (which is my disability bus pass) were not in my purse.

I immediately spoke to a transit worker and asked if she could radio the bus that I was on. The wallet, which was only about three minutes missing or so, was nowhere to be found by the driver of the bus. I was going to use my bus pass, which can be used across the province, for a vacation I was going to take over Christmas.

Now I would have to pay a lot of extra money just to travel around the city because I no longer have my pass. I’m not working right now, either, which makes this all the harder. I’m absolutely sick.

Keep the money if you feel you must (why you feel the need to take something that doesn’t belong to you is beyond my comprehension and is theft, however petty it may be), but I beg of you to please drop my cards and wallet off to the transit office at 1494 Hardy St. before Christmas.

I now have to pay twice for a bus pass that’s already been taken out of my disability income assistance as it’s already been renewed for next year, but now I have to pay for a new pass if this one doesn’t show up in the next few days.

I thought that Christmas was a time for peace on Earth, goodwill towards men. There is nothing that shows any kind of goodwill towards me in this situation. Thanks to whoever it is that made my holiday such a happy one. Greta Fader Kelowna