A carriage driver from Cárdenas, Matanzas, was the protagonist of a story of honesty after returning a phone that a young woman had forgotten in his car and also surprising everyone by revealing that he still had a flip-flop lost by a child about four months ago.
The activist Christian Arbolaez shared on Facebook this Wednesday that the coachman, identified as Luis Felipe, returned to the spot where he had dropped off the young woman when he noticed that she had forgotten her phone.
However, during the conversation, another story emerged. They told the driver that, approximately four months earlier, the son of a neighbor had lost a flip-flop in that same vehicle.
The surprise came when Luis Felipe showed that he still had it.
"About four months had passed, and that man had not thrown her away. He kept her in his car just in case one day the person who lost her showed up", explained the activist.
In this way, on the same day he returned the phone, that little flip-flop also appeared, which had been kept for months waiting for someone to claim it.
"Two completely different objects and the same way of acting," summarized Arbolaez, who emphasized that the coachman could have kept the phone or discarded the flip-flop, but he did neither of those things.
"Sometimes honesty is demonstrated precisely like this, when no one forces you to do the right thing," he reflected.
The activist closed his post with a phrase that quickly summed up the gesture: “There are still good people left”.
Amidst so much economic misery, there are still people who display the most beautiful traits of humanity.
In this regard, the story of the coachman recalls another incident that recently occurred in Cárdenas, where a bike-taxi driver returned a suitcase that had been forgotten in his vehicle, an action that also received numerous praises on social media.
Similar cases have been reported in other provinces. At the beginning of September, a driver returned a phone lost by a teenager during a family emergency in Cienfuegos, after the minor left it forgotten during the transfer to a hospital.
Also in May, the story of a young carriage driver who touched hearts on social media with a gesture of solidarity went viral, another one of those everyday episodes that stands out amidst the challenges facing the country.
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