I wouldn’t use the term restored my faith in people because I think a lot of people are nice. There isn’t a lot to say about nice people that mind their business so they don’t get much attention. Focus gets put on not so nice people. This is a story about strangers being nice to me at an airport in the Bay Area. I think it was the one in Oakland.
I was returning home from a vacation and landed in the Bay Area. I had to catch another flight to get back to the Midwest. There wasn’t much time between landing in Oakland and taking off to Chicago. I had to run from one gate to another. After landing in Chicago I went to Kansas City.
Once I got to the departing gate and stopped running two little girls were behind me. They had dark hair and eyes. They were obviously sisters and were close in age but I don’t think they were twins. They were between 7-10.
They got my attention and their eyes were big and round and they were a bit winded. They were holding my wallet. I dropped it in the airport and they were nice enough to return it to me even though they had to run behind me through the airport. I’m not sure how long those girls ran behind me but they were obviously determined.
I thanked them profusely. I had my boarding pass for my next flight in hand so I didn’t need anything in my wallet to get on the next flight. If those girls hadn’t been nice enough to get my wallet it would have been lost forever because I was on my way to another city 1500 miles away.
This happened a long time ago. Those girls are grown women now. I’ve thought about them over the years. I hope they are thriving wherever they are and whatever they are doing. They really saved my bacon that day.
Shannon's Life in the Midwest 
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