Teen girl on finding ex-national footballer’s purse: Don’t let people’s money, luxurious items burn your eyes
(Trinidad Guardian) An act of honesty has earned a young lady high praise and has gone viral as more people learn about it.
“Don’t let anyone’s money and luxurious items burn your eyes. Work hard for what you want in life!”
That was the advice which Isha recalled from her mother while growing up.
The advice paid off on Saturday for Isha, 17, an employee of McDonald’s Cipriani Boulevard branch, when she stumbled upon a wallet belonging to former T&T national footballer Ricarda Nelson in the restaurant’s washroom which held with a significant amount of US currency, TT dollars and bank cards.
The teenager handed her manager the wallet and when Nelson, 51, showed up at the restaurant hours later to find out if it was there, surprisingly it was handed over to her with everything intact.
“I didn’t open the wallet. I just wanted the owner to collect it because I know when I lost something that is valuable to me, it pains,” Isha said in an interview at the family’s home in Diego Martin yesterday.
Nelson refused to disclose to the T&T Guardian the amount of money the wallet contained, stating it was quite a lot of US and T&T currency, including a number of credit cards and her national ID.
Isha’s honesty led to Nelson posting on her Facebook page on Saturday about the young lady’s good deed, stating that there are still young people in T&T that “we can trust and she should serve as a positive role model to others in society.”
Up to late yesterday, Nelson’s post attracted 15,000 likes, 9,000 shares and 2,900 positive and congratulatory comments.
Many people praised and commended Isha for a “job well done” and even recommended that she be given McDonald’s employee of the year award for her honesty.
“I am sending a warning to McDonald’s that I will be competing with them for Isha to join my company which is expected to get off the ground soon. That