Eliana Martin was doing a normal day of shopping at Ralphs. She arrived home from the grocery store in Chula Vista and realized she had left her wallet behind.
Panicked, she immediately did what everyone tells you to do when you lose your wallet; cancel your credit cards. She canceled her cards and remembers leaving her bag with the shopping card she used at the store.
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But luckily for her, the person who spotted her bag only had honest intentions. Adrian Rodriguez saw the bag and didn’t think for a second about keeping it.
“My first thought was to give it back. I was wondering if I should take it back to the store or just bring it [to her] and I just brought it,” he said.
He decided to give the bag to Martin himself instead of giving it to the store. He found her address in the contents of her bag and went over to her place.
He rang the doorbell, handed Martin’s bag to one of his relatives, and left.
Martin later recalled feeling surprised at seeing Adrian in the ring video at her door, holding her bag to return it to its rightful owner.
Impressed by his honesty, Martin’s friend, Melina Marquez, said, “We should find him, so we can give him a little gratitude.”
The two women met with Rodriguez to thank him personally. Marquez said to him, “As soon as I saw his actions, I was like, ‘I hope my son grows up to be just like him.’ The values his parents were teaching him, I’m just glad he kept that.”
Adrian was surprised by her gratitude and revealed that he hadn’t actually expected anything in return. He said, “I honestly didn’t expect anything in return. I just gave her back her purse.”
The women are now organizing a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to reward the young man’s good actions. Their goal was to raise $1000 but they managed to raise more than twice as much!
Even though Adrian did the good deed without expecting anything in return, he will be handsomely rewarded for his righteous actions!
