and no reasonable answer can be accepted.

This is the strange story about a journey taken by my daughter’s drivers license, with no reasonable answer accepted.

On Saturday night of last week, my oldest daughter went to “The Government”, a club in Toronto, to see some DJ who had just arrived from the coast. In any case, it was a well planned night with friends, including a stay over in a local hotel.

When she came back to her hotel she realized that her purse had been either robbed, or she had dropped a lot of stiff out of it that evening. Missing was her wallet with all her money ($11), her credit card, her debit card, her drivers license, her health card and her school ID card as well as her camera and a few other makeup objects. It could have been a simple drop, although none of it has shown up in the lost and found at the club leaving us to believe it was a theft.

The items, a great bunch of stuff for an identity theft, were all missing. She called in the credit card missing at 4 a.m. and it had not been used. The cards had no pin numbers (thank God) written on them. The health card was called in the next afternoon, the drivers license replied for by Monday and the only loss so far is the student ID that will be replaced at school when she returns. It looked clean.

The surprise ending was a phone call on Tuesday afternoon from the Ancaster post office, where we live. Her driver’s license was deposited, along with another drivers license from Mississauga, ON (suburban Toronto) in a Dundas, ON neighbourhood mailbox.

Because both Dundas and Ancaster mail ends up in our local post office, they called to see if we lost it. Delighted, I told him yes and they delivered in yesterday. They did not receive any other cards, and she does not know anyone from Mississauga, ON. We have no idea, and can’t imagine the journey this license has taken to get back to us. Was it just a stroke of luck some kid from Dundas found these two licenses in a bar in Toronto? I can’t imagine such luck.

Is it Ockham’s Razor, and the easiest explanation is the simplest, it was a kind thief who wanted to return something?

Who knows?