One Goodwill worker brought a smile to one woman after she found and returned $40,000 worth of Tiffany jewelry that had been accidentally included in a box of donated items that had been given to the store.
Bonnie Patton, a grandmother of seven, was a temporary worker with Goodwill when the alert went out that jewelry was possibly somewhere in their warehouse that she worked at.
According to ABC News , Patton remembers “jumping for joy” when she spotted a small box containing a 1.75-carat diamond ring , as it fell out of one of thousands of garbage bags in the warehouse.
“Finding these rings was like a needle in a haystack,” said Patton according to ABC News .
“I was so excited for this lady. I would not personally want to lose my heirlooms, my personal memories, so I was very, very excited.”
Sandra Williams was mortified when she realized that she misplaced the jewelry.
“I thought I’d hid it so well that even I couldn’t find it or someone walked off with it,” Williams said to ABC News .
It was after her initial realization, Williams decided to let Goodwill know that her jewelry may be among the things she had donated.
Williams was shocked and excited when she got a call from Goodwill, telling her that her missing jewelry had been found.
Williams told ABC News , “I could not believe the goodwill of Goodwill,” said Williams, voicing incredulity that someone “would find a 1.75-carat ring and not put in their pocket.”
According to ABC News , Goodwill policy prevents Williams from giving a monetary reward, not that Patton would have accepted one.
The report continued on to say that Patton was perfectly happy with a simple hug in return for helping Williams find her lost jewelry .
Not everyone would have been as kind as Goodwill worker, Bonnie Patton was when she found the misplaced Tiffany jewelry, meaning she defiantly earned that hug.
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