$40 that says something

Last Friday morning I went downstairs to get breakfast and since I was low on cash, I went to withdraw money. AND I FREAKING FORGOT TO TAKE THE $40 FROM THE ATM MACHINE. I only realised this after about 5-10 minutes and by the time I went back to the atm, the money was gone, as I had expected :(

It just spoiled my day la but who was I to blame anyone, it was entirely a result of my carelessness (probably cuz I was only half awake then...) and I didn't think that the person who took the money could do anything about it to return the money or would bother troubling him/herself and make a report to the bank or something, because I really didn't know how the procedure should be like if something like this happens.

The next day I told my parents about it and they said that I could try making a report to the bank, they would be able to trace it. But I was skeptical about it. I know that atm machines have cameras, but if they managed to capture the person who had taken the money, but if the person did not insert his atm card to withdraw any money (I made an assumption here), then how were they going to identify him? I was just really unsure about whether the bank would even be able to do anything about this, especially when the amount involved isn't exactly that big (relatively of course, $40 is still quite a sum to a student like me lol). Plus, I felt that it wasn't necessary to go through the trouble (for the bank, myself and the person who took the money) when it was entirely my own mistake...So I just treated the $40 as a donation and a price to pay for the lesson learnt.

Then....this afternoon I received an sms from the DBS bank about crediting some claimed amount to my account, to which I was unaware of. I suspected that it was the $40, but I didn't dare to expect anything, so I waited till I got home to check.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FORTUNATE I FELT WHEN I SAW $40 BEING CREDITED INTO MY ACCOUNT. Must have been the good karma I have accumulated hahaha just kidding. But yeah I really did not expect to be able to get back this $40.

Thank you so much, whoever you are!! May you be blessed with endless good karma. Really really arigato T.T

Faith in humanity restored!