Good Samaritan ‘Skip’ Finds $12,000 and Returns it All to the Senior Citizen Who Lost it

October 11, 2024 journo

Dan Desfosses, right, manager of Market Basket, and the man who found it (left) known only as Skip – credit Truong Huynh, supplied to the media.

A Massachusetts senior lost an envelope containing $12,000 at a supermarket, but just as there seemed to be no hope of finding it, the kindness of a Good Samaritan reunited the woman with her life savings.

Returning home from grocery shopping at the local Market Basket in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 71-year-old Ha’s heart dropped—the envelope of cash was nowhere to be seen. Speaking very little English, Ha called her nephew Truong Huynh for help.

Huynh, 55, took his aunt back to Market Basket to look for the cash, but despite checking everywhere she had gone, their search yielded nothing. Arriving at the help desk, the two got in touch with manager Dan Desfosses, who said he would check the security camera footage to see if they could locate where and when she lost the envelope.

This too, turned up nothing. At no point was she in the shot when the money was lost.

Giving up, they headed back to their car.

Suddenly Desfosses and another man came running out to meet them, with the former explaining that the latter had just brought the envelope with every last dollar accounted for to the management desk.

“We were so happy, we almost cried,” Huynh told the Washington Post, adding that he asked to take a photo of the man with Desfosses. “He showed honor,” Huynh said. “Many people wouldn’t pass that test.”

The ‘he’ in question was a man called Skip, whose girlfriend worked at the Market Basket.

“I don’t know if there’s a lot of people that would do that,” Desfosses added. “It shows you what he’s made of… It shows you there are truly some good people in this world.”

Once home, Ha decided to return to Market Basket the next day and give a cash reward to Mr. Skip. She left $300 with his girlfriend as he wasn’t there at the time.

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Most people reading will know that seniors have their ways—and tend to be set in them.

That was certainly the case for Ha, who, for fear of misplacing it, carried the envelope with her everywhere she went. Her rationale was that if the money was with her, it couldn’t be taken or moved by anyone else.

There are obvious risks to that strategy. $12,000 cash is heavy, and more than happy in its smooth paper envelope to slip and slide against the fabric lining of a purse and out into the open air.

Ha had always intended to hand the money over to her children as an inheritance one day, and GNN is assuming she will open a savings account at the nearest bank branch.

In a local Facebook group, Huynh shared the story which eventually made it to the Post.

“It takes a special kind of person to do something so honest and selfless, and Skip, you are a true example of integrity and compassion,” Huynh wrote. “Thank you, Skip — you’ve touched more lives than you know today.”

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