Wallet returned by strangers and Facebook

A New York woman credits a taxi driver, the current tenant of her old apartment and Facebook with returning the wallet she lost on New Year’s Eve.

Allison Gubala, 34, said she mistakenly left her wallet in a cab when she went home to change clothes on New Year’s Eve before a party she was planning to attend in Connecticut, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

I didn’t realize I didn’t have my wallet until I was all dressed up for New Year’s and I was halfway to the train, she said.

Gubala said that while she lost cash, her credit cards and her ID, she was most upset about losing the pictures she kept in her wallet, including a photo of her with a friend who had recently died.

However, she said her luck turned around Jan. 6 with a Facebook message from a stranger, Irene Cheng, who wrote that the cab driver had attempted to return Gubala’s wallet, but the address on her ID was of an old apartment — Cheng’s current home. She said the cab driver gave her the wallet in the hopes that the building’s superintendent would have a forwarding address. She wasn’t able to find an address, but she did find Gubala’s Facebook page.

Facebook is like the white pages, Cheng said. Everybody’s on it.