Good Lesson:
One of my colleagues recently lost his wallet while driving. He immediately called me up to check what needs to be done. I asked him to block his Debit and Credit Cards quickly and to request for the issue of new cards. He did the same without any delay. Also, I contacted ICICI Lombard to issue duplicate mediclaim card for him. And when he came to office, he applied for a duplicate PAN card by paying the appropriate fees online.
After 4 days, he got a call in the early morning from someone who claims to be the finder of his wallet. It seems that gentlemen tried to reach my colleague several times, but the latter did not pick those calls thinking that they were marketing calls from banks for loans / credit cards etc. This is because he has been getting annoying calls from various banks and hence, he doesn’t pick the calls from unknown numbers.
Though he got his wallet back, he ends up paying charges to all his bankers for issue of duplicate debit and credit cards, processing fees for duplicate PAN card, apart from facing mental stress and disturbances.
The lesson what we all can learn from this incident is that we should pick all incoming calls (for few days at least) if the wallet is lost. Who knows it might be from the finder of your wallet ?
The thing to note is that the gentleman who found my colleague’s wallet was ready to meet him and hand over it. How surprising it is that someone who finds your wallet tries many times to reach you, and when he gets you, he asks where should he come and hand it over ? In this fast-moving world with everyone having there own busy schedule of activities, it’s very difficult to find someone with helping tendency like this. Isn’t it ?? We should be like this, in case we find someone’s missing stuff.
Another thing, needless to say, is that the incoming marketing calls from banks are increasing day by day. The “Do Not Disturb” Registry is also not effective to a large extent. These marketing people simply say that they found our number on their data base and disturb us a lot. And that too, some times we get repeated calls from the same office and they are answerless if we question it. Quite painful !!
