Woman's Leaves Holiday Gifts On Subway, Only To Be Found Later By Good Samaritan Thanks To Her Own Good Deed
NEW YORK (CBS) your gifts are wrapped and ready to be mailed, but you accidentally leave them on the subway, and away they go. It happened to one New Yorker, but as luck would have it, in truly the holiday spirit, another New Yorker found them.
Christmas cheer came a few days early for Nicole Snow and Dennis Noonan, two strangers brought together by goodness and, well, Facebook. On Monday, Snow was on her way to work and the Post Office when she made a horrifying mistake.
"I get off the train to transfer to the B and I realized as I turned the corner that I had left my bags on the seat next to me," she told CBS 2.
She felt helpless.
"So I ran back to the corner right as the doors were closing and I saw the bag on the seat and I thought, that's it," she said.
Little did she know as she got off at Columbus Circle, a very observant Dennis Noonan got on, heading to 18th Street. It seems her bag of commuting Christmas goodies had an angel.
"When I realized it, the doors had already closed and so I went and got the bag the bag and thought, 'Somebody's not going to have a good Christmas,'" he said.
But it was Snow's own good deed that makes this an even better Christmas story. Just last week, she found a checkbook on the street and was mailing it to its owner in Maryland. Her return address helped Noonan find her.
"I'd completely forgotten that I'd put the envelope in there to send it back to the guy who lost his checkbook. I almost didn't send it because I thought, 'Does he really need it?' But then I thought he'd be really happy to get it back in the mail," she said.
Noonan, a loving dad, having been on the panicky side when his wife lost her driver's license in Nashville, turned to what helped then: a Facebook search. A few hours later, Snow did, too.
"Hi Nicole just wondering if you lost some gifts," Noonan wrote to Snow.
"I wrote back, 'Oh my God! I can't believe it, you're an angel!" she said.
On Tuesday, Noonan returned the gifts to Snow.
"We're trying to what we would want other people to do for us," he said.
"If I hadn't decided to send the checkbook back to that person, then my name wouldn't be on there and I wouldn't get my gifts back, and Dennis wouldn't have had the opportunity to be the good Samaritan that he is," Snow said.
Snow was so grateful she gave Noonan a thank you present. It's a wonderful holiday story that could only happen in New York City.
Christmas cheer came a few days early for Nicole Snow and Dennis Noonan, two strangers brought together by goodness and, well, Facebook. On Monday, Snow was on her way to work and the Post Office when she made a horrifying mistake.
"I get off the train to transfer to the B and I realized as I turned the corner that I had left my bags on the seat next to me," she told CBS 2.
She felt helpless.
"So I ran back to the corner right as the doors were closing and I saw the bag on the seat and I thought, that's it," she said.
Little did she know as she got off at Columbus Circle, a very observant Dennis Noonan got on, heading to 18th Street. It seems her bag of commuting Christmas goodies had an angel.
"When I realized it, the doors had already closed and so I went and got the bag the bag and thought, 'Somebody's not going to have a good Christmas,'" he said.
But it was Snow's own good deed that makes this an even better Christmas story. Just last week, she found a checkbook on the street and was mailing it to its owner in Maryland. Her return address helped Noonan find her.
"I'd completely forgotten that I'd put the envelope in there to send it back to the guy who lost his checkbook. I almost didn't send it because I thought, 'Does he really need it?' But then I thought he'd be really happy to get it back in the mail," she said.
Noonan, a loving dad, having been on the panicky side when his wife lost her driver's license in Nashville, turned to what helped then: a Facebook search. A few hours later, Snow did, too.
"Hi Nicole just wondering if you lost some gifts," Noonan wrote to Snow.
"I wrote back, 'Oh my God! I can't believe it, you're an angel!" she said.
On Tuesday, Noonan returned the gifts to Snow.
"We're trying to what we would want other people to do for us," he said.
"If I hadn't decided to send the checkbook back to that person, then my name wouldn't be on there and I wouldn't get my gifts back, and Dennis wouldn't have had the opportunity to be the good Samaritan that he is," Snow said.
Snow was so grateful she gave Noonan a thank you present. It's a wonderful holiday story that could only happen in New York City.
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