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Cuero woman receives wallet mailed from Frisco area
Blanca McBride/ Submitted Photo: Blanca McBride, a Cuero, Texas native received an anonymous note from a Frisco resident, who mailed McBride’s wallet she lost in Florida.
By Elizabeth Knighten, eknighten@starlocalnews.com
When Blanca McBride and her three sisters headed to Orlando, Florida on March 9 for a spring break vacation to Disney World, none of them were prepared for the events that were to unfold during their tumultuous trip.
McBride, a Cuero native, which is located about 28 miles north west of Victoria, near the Texas coast line, was enjoying an annual trip that she takes with her siblings when she said she stopped at a rest-stop near Suwannee Lake.
"We stopped at the Shell on I-10 and I-7, and we drove up and a couple of miles down the road -- there was a rest area, we stopped there to get coffee," McBride said. "An hour after we put in gas, we went out to get coffee at the rest area , I took my wallet with me because I didn't have any cash, so I went to see if I could find an ATM machine and they didn't have one."
"My sister bought my coffee for me and we went two more hours down to Orlando," McBride said. "We proceeded onto Kissimmee, near Orlando and I stopped at the 7-Eleven to buy my grandson some chocolate milk, and I realized I didn't have my wallet, so there we are in the parking lot and we tore the truck apart."
She said she and the sister each went through their suitcases trying to find the wallet but could not locate it within the car. McBride said she called the Shell station where they had stopped for gas, but no one could locate it. She also called the rest area after searching online for someone to speak with, but again she could not find the missing wallet.
"I'm a mess, I'm a basket-case, my social security card is in there too," she said. "The worker from the rest area tells me 'look, I've done this for 30 years, only one time has I found a wallet that's been returned.'"
Her sisters tried to calm her down, informing her that they had arrived to Florida and did not want to go back when there was a full week ahead of them.
"My sisters tell me ... 'you didn't lose a child, you didn't lose a family member, it's not death, even if someone steals your identity, it's something that can be fixed in time, it's fixable,'" she said. "I had to get it together and we continued on with the trip."
When McBride returned home to Cuero on March 17, she still had not located the wallet, however two days later, on March 19; her luck took her by surprise.
Her daughter, Bethany who lives a few homes down from her, informed their mail carrier of the situation that happened in Florida.
"She [mail carrier] said 'I'm so sorry, well here's all your mail' and so in the mail was a big box that my husband had ordered tools in, regular letters and then a box that looked like a check box."
When McBride opened the box and discovered her wallet she said both she and the mail carrier were crying, screaming and jumping out in the front lawn. The anonymous box did not include a return address, but rather a note inside from "a fellow Texan."
McBride, who believes the note was written by a woman because of the handwriting, said "I've never seen a man write that pretty." She went to her local post office and after scanning the postage, the USPS mail carrier said the package originated from Frisco.
"With identity theft being so rampant now, she doesn't know what peace of mind she gave me" she said.
McBride said she hopes to contact and reward the woman who returned the missing wallet. She also added "only she'll know what my wallet looked like."
"I'm hoping that somehow she sees it and knows that what she did is monumental to me and my family," she said. "This is something we're never, ever going to forget, the peace that she's given us, the security that she's given us back, because -- this is spring break in Florida, so you have teenagers, you have truckers ... the security that she's given me back is something you can't put a price on."
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