My name is Julius Grafton, and I am from Sydney. On Thursday 21st of April 2011 I flew from Sydney to Melbourne for a funeral. I caught the Skybus to Spencer Street, and then a taxi to the funeral chapel in St Kilda.
Standing outside the funeral chapel in Melbourne I realized my wallet was missing. I’d woken at 4am and been in transit from Sydney until 10. Now it was 11am, and I had $2 in my pocket and no identification. No money to get back to the airport, no ID for the ticket and no way to bail my car from airport parking that night in Sydney, let alone get home to the northside.
Alex from Lex AV gave me a lift to the wake at the Esplanade Hotel. Tiny Good from Showtech Australia loaned me $200. I hated to ask, but he was very gracious. Then taxi driver Jeet Singh rang my daughter, whose number is in the wallet. My wallet was in his cab, He said he remembered me that morning because I was polite to him. He would drop it over at the end of his shift. I gave him a $100 tip and he seemed surprised.
For a while there I felt really desperate and didn’t know what to do.
I am deeply appreciative of the honesty and kindness shown to me, a stranger, by Jeet.
- Julius Grafton
juliusmedia@me.com
