The manager of a bar-tabac in Uzès (Gard) received a letter of apology accompanied by a 50 euro note this Friday, September 13, reports France Bleu Gard Lozère. In his letter, the author explains that he wants to “repair a mistake made during [m]our childhood”.
“Indeed, when I was a little boy, I stole a handful of sweets from your tobacco shop Le Provençal,” the sender explains. To pay off his debt, the repentant candy thief slipped in a 50 euro note.
“I am sorry for stealing from you and I wish you the best for yourself, your loved ones and your business,” he concluded.
“I thought it was a joke at first,” Alexandre Goncalves De Oliveira, manager of the bar-tabac, told France Bleu Gard Lozère. “Then I checked the 50-year note, it was real.”
A “kind gesture”
He wonders, however, who could be hiding behind this anonymous letter. A regular? Someone passing through? “We might have the answer one day,” he says. “This person put the church back in the middle of the village. It sleeps peacefully (…), and I found this gesture kind.”
- BFMTV.com
