Dublin Bus - lost item

5star02707

My sister left her phone on the bus 123 last night at the last stop in Walkinstown.

Rang the phone when she got home and luckily this lady answered it and told us the phone is safe and she will give it to the bus driver before she gets off the bus. Called again in a few minutes and the bus driver said he will leave the phone in Summerhill Dublin Bus garage as his shift is done. Picked it up late last night.

First of all I would like to thank this lady (didn't get the chance to ask for her name) but whoever you are may you receive good karma. There are still people like you who's a blessing in this world. Last but not the least the driver who's kind enough to be the middle man and very informative on how we can retrieve the lost phone.

Thank you very much to both of ye

Happy Paddy's Day everyone!

Arc_Light

Karma does work, I really think there is some kind of balance to the universe, explain it with a God or quantum mechanics but it's there.

In my second year of college I was BROKE, no parents money on the cards just me on my own. I found a guys wallet on the 46a, €600 in it. I saw his ID and he was a truck driver and I thought "ah God I can't take this...a truck driver can't afford to loose 600quid and some poor tourist...I'd feel guilty". It would have helped towards the college fees I'd just been hit with. I'd taken a year of leave but a technicality in the way it was processed meant I may have had to pay the fees for the entire year I was not there, the Dean said there was no real way around it but she'd try anyway.
I called the guys bank through his VisaDebit card and found his hotel, gave the wallet back to reception (he didn't bother to come down to the desk to say thank you which really annoyed me but I didn't regret it it was still the right thing to do).

The next day Dean calls me in "we sorted that for you, the fees have been cleared".
A few weeks later I left my brand new Dell XPS laptop on the back seat of the bus. It's missing for weeks, I'm CRUSHED my journal and all are on there (security locked but still, I stupidly had no backups at the time). After 4 weeks of worry my sister calld me and said her mother in law had seen an Ad in the Hearald from a girl who was on the bus and found it, 14 years old, her mother had insisted on putting ads in the papers before letting her have it to exhaust all chances of finding an owner. I got my laptop back in person and gave her some money €50 which was a lot to me those days.

A few weeks ago I found a girls personalized leap card, looked up phonebook could not find anything, LEAP (strangely) said she'd put no info up, I called her college and got an address, stuck it in an envilope and off it went to her.

I always try to think about what I'd want others to do if it were my stuff.

SparkySpitfire

I have to say as well, the staff down in the lost property office are great!

When I was there before (as intimidating as the setting may be!) the staff were so helpful and lovely to me despite me being second in a queue of forgetful people who lost their stuff on the bus

Another time I managed to retrieve my shopping from a last bus late at night from the garage thanks to a lovely phone operator and driver.

It's one aspect of Dublin Bus that I have nothing but good to say about

Spanish Eyes

I remember so well, leaving my suitcase on the bus. Never used the bus before with a suitcase on the holder near the door, so dreamlike, in a bit of a trance I blithely got off and sailed away on my merry way!

A few minutes later I realised what I had done, shock horror!!.

I figured out what garage the bus used and phoned them. I was lucky enough to have a paper ticket, and the garage were able to pinpoint the driver, the bus and the registration number from the details on the ticket. They radioed the driver and he said he had it (hadn't been nicked Great!). He was on bus registration number XXX and would be on the way back into town at such a time. Stop outside Clerys. And I found him and was reunited with my suitcase.

DB were fantastic that night, have to say. Fair dues.