A quick Tuesday trip to Meijer of Stevensville that rapidly turned sour for Gary Sprunger of St. Joe, also ended on a high note all thanks to the owner of the Two Blondes and a Bucket cleaning service in that town, and he’s asked that we share his story of good fortune.
Sprunger says he wants everyone to know about his experience because it renews his faith in the inherent goodness that some people bring to the world every day. As he tells it, he had made his trip to Meijer and discovered that he had lost his iPhone in the parking lot. He tells me, “I discovered the loss when I got to my home in St Joe. Without unloading groceries, I immediately returned to the parking space. Nothing on the ground. Inside the sympathetic lady that sanitized the carts directed me to the Customer Service desk, and she made some calls in the store. No cell phone in it’s brown leather case reported found.”
Sick to his stomach over the loss, Sprunger returned home, fretting over having to get a new drivers license, the need to stop the credit card and to notify all the automatic pay accounts. However, he says, “As I pulled in the driveway, my wife stepped out on the porch waving my iPhone in its case! I was dumbfounded! She said a nice lady knocked on the door and said, ‘This is your lucky day.'” Indeed it was.
The woman, you see, had spotted the phone on the ground and, not wanting to go back inside Mejier, saw Gary’s drivers license and his address and drove to his house from Stevensville. Gary says, “She told my wife she was Karen Dickey of Two Blondes and a Bucket in Stevensville,” and adds, “Today, Wednesday, I GPS’d my way to her door, met Karen to thank her personally and tell her how much her going out of her way meant to me.”
Sprunger says of his stressful experience, “We need more of this, these days, Pat. People willing to ‘do unto others, as we would have them do unto us,’ and the people of Stevensville, need to know they have an honest and conscientious business owner, Karen Dickey, of Two Blondes and a Bucket living and doing business in their community.” He concludes, “She is a person Stevensville should be proud of. I’m proud to have met her, and thankful for her unselfish act of kindness toward me.”
Everyone loves a story with a happy ending, and to know that the business community has their back every day.
