'There are Secret Santas out there': Man reunited with wallet, 100 miles away from where he lost it

Hope Schreiber
·Writer
A man who lost his wallet 100 miles away from home found it in his mailbox, with no stamp or envelope. It even came back with a bonus. (Photo: Clay LePard via Twitter)
A man who lost his wallet 100 miles away from home found it in his mailbox, with no stamp or envelope. It even came back with a bonus. (Photo: Clay LePard via Twitter)

Losing a wallet is, of course, a stressful situation, but losing a wallet during the holiday season? That’s a level of stress most wouldn’t wish upon their worst enemy.

Unfortunately, one Florida man, Marty Spear, experienced that precise fear when he lost his wallet 105 miles from home.

Spear was visiting St. Augustine for its Christmas lights display with his cousin last weekend when he realized his wallet was missing. Ignoring the lights, he and his cousin turned their holiday trip into a search mission. Sadly, he was unable to find his wallet, which included his debit card and his driver’s license.

“I was going back retracing my steps to where I’d been, couldn’t find it,” he told Click Orlando, the website for CBS affiliate WKMG in Orlando. “You have to cancel things, it’s a whole process you’re going through and you’re stressing out the whole time.”

St. Augustine is 105 miles from where Spear lives, so imagine his shock when, mixed in with some junk mail in his mailbox, he found his wallet. On top of that, $3 was added. It was delivered with no stamp or envelope.

“It’s not a short trip by far,” Spear said. “There are still those little secret Santas out there.”

The note read, “Sorry it took me so long to get this back to you. I found it on the ground in St. Augustine outside a coffee shop. Here’s three dollars for a (cheap) coffee on me!” The signature included is seemingly unidentifiable. While Spear reads it as an “E. P.” or “C. P,” it does also look like an “S,” for Santa.

Spear hopes that the media attention this kind act has received will lead him to the person who returned the wallet so that they can share a coffee.

“That would be a great honor,” he said. “I would love to sit down and have a cup of coffee with that person.”

For now, Spear is saving those three dollars, in hopes of treating the person who returned the wallet.

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