4 weeks ago, myself and my wife were away for the weekend break - we travelled back to a city where we lived before we got married.
While I lived there in that city - I used buy a lot of stuff from a particular bike shop in that city.
So on our weekend trip, I decided to visit that particular shop to say hello to the owner and to perhaps buy some stuff there.
I had € 200.00 cash on me and after looking at some stuff, I only spent € 50.00, which left me with €150.00 cash (I'd hoped that the shop would have had a selection of jerseys...but it hadn't).
I got back to our hotel and found that € 150.00 I thought I had, was gone.
I retraced my steps since leaving that bike shop and I phoned each location where I had been to see if the money had been found or handed in.
I phoned the bike shop and the owner went over to the place where I had been, in the shop, but he said that there was no sign of the cash.
The bike shop owner said that no money had been handed in.
I thanked him for his help and basically I wrote off any chance of the money
coming back to me.
This morning, I was in that same bike shop and when the owner saw me, he called me aside.
He told me that subsequent to my phone call - the next day, he had found
€ 150.00, under the rearwheel of a Pinarello bike, but he had not got my mobile number to tell me that he had found it!
All I can say is that the guy is a very very honest person.
Where would you get honesty like that?
He could have said nothing and I wouldn't have been any wiser.
I insisted that he take € 50.00, by way of thanks, but he wouldn't accept it.
I therefore insisted on buying € 150.00 worth of stuff (helmet, tyres) and I gave his repair guys € 50.00 to get themselves a few pints tonight.
(repair guys are young foreign nationals - over here working in his workshop).
So thanks Joe for your generosity : a lot of LBS get adverse press here and in other fora : when something good happens I think people should know about it.
While I lived there in that city - I used buy a lot of stuff from a particular bike shop in that city.
So on our weekend trip, I decided to visit that particular shop to say hello to the owner and to perhaps buy some stuff there.
I had € 200.00 cash on me and after looking at some stuff, I only spent € 50.00, which left me with €150.00 cash (I'd hoped that the shop would have had a selection of jerseys...but it hadn't).
I got back to our hotel and found that € 150.00 I thought I had, was gone.
I retraced my steps since leaving that bike shop and I phoned each location where I had been to see if the money had been found or handed in.
I phoned the bike shop and the owner went over to the place where I had been, in the shop, but he said that there was no sign of the cash.
The bike shop owner said that no money had been handed in.
I thanked him for his help and basically I wrote off any chance of the money
coming back to me.
This morning, I was in that same bike shop and when the owner saw me, he called me aside.
He told me that subsequent to my phone call - the next day, he had found
€ 150.00, under the rearwheel of a Pinarello bike, but he had not got my mobile number to tell me that he had found it!
All I can say is that the guy is a very very honest person.
Where would you get honesty like that?
He could have said nothing and I wouldn't have been any wiser.
I insisted that he take € 50.00, by way of thanks, but he wouldn't accept it.
I therefore insisted on buying € 150.00 worth of stuff (helmet, tyres) and I gave his repair guys € 50.00 to get themselves a few pints tonight.
(repair guys are young foreign nationals - over here working in his workshop).
So thanks Joe for your generosity : a lot of LBS get adverse press here and in other fora : when something good happens I think people should know about it.