By Brendan Rees
A Cranbourne North woman has had her faith in humanity restored after a Good Samaritan found her car keys.
Cate Parkinson said she had returned to her car at Cranbourne Park Shopping Centre, only to realise her keys were missing on Wednesday 27 June at 3.30pm.
After having no success checking the bottom of her shopping bags, she said “I didn’t panic but I thought I must have left them in Kmart.”
“I thought by the time I get down there they’re probably handed in.”
However, Cate said the staff at Kmart hadn’t received any lost keys so she began tracing her steps in the store.
“I started to look at the different shelves, the first shelve no go, second shelf, yes there they were, I grabbed them then an Indian lady with a baby and she was just standing there,” Cate said.
“She said ‘Oh are they yours?’ And I said ‘Yeah their mine, have you been guarding my keys?” Cate said. “And she said ‘Yes I have.’ She said ‘I was going to take them to the service desk but she said ‘No, I decided to wait, I thought you would come back’”
Cate says she was blown away by the woman’s generosity.
“She just did it out of the kindness of her heart; I was so touched that someone would even do that.”
“I reckon she was standing there for 10 minutes guarding my keys and I couldn’t thank her enough,” she said.
“I was very grateful and I just want to honour that lady.”
