Lost: Wallet. Found: Good Samaritan

When longtime McHenry resident Dave Neuffer reached for his wallet to pay for the oil change he'd just received at Northtown Auto on Friday, he suffered that sinking feeling.

No, it wasn't that his wallet was not well enough stocked to pay for the service. It was that his wallet was altogether missing.

Left somewhat disabled after a stroke six years ago, and walking with a cane, Neuffer ambled to his car to see if the wallet was there. It wasn't, and then he realized he'd probably left it on the roof of the car when he bought gas earlier Friday.

As he explained what he believed had happened, a Northtown employee who had noticed Neuffer's difficulty in getting around offered to help him try to find it, Neuffer said.

The employee was Larry Condon, and Condon spied the wallet on the highway about 500 feet from the gas station at Route 120 and River Road.

"It was all trashed and run over," Neuffer said of the wallet. "[Condon] walked about 1,000 feet and found all of my cards."

Neuffer's driver's licence, two credit cards, a health club membership card, an ATM card and more were scattered along the highway from about 500 feet east of the intersection nearly to the Culver's Restaurant, Neuffer said. Condon walked in the rain until he found every missing item.

"It was just so nice. This guy gave up his lunch hour," Neuffer said. "There's no way I could have gotten out of my car as much as he did and walk down the highway... he saved my day."

Thank you, Mr. Neuffer, for sharing. And way to go, Mr. Condon.

– Cyndi Wyss