Nick Chowdhury will never forget the day at the pier when things did not go according to plan. He decided to try fishing off the breakwater instead of the pier. But it proved precarious to walk over all the large rocks with his gear, so he decided to lighten his load.
“I picked what I thought was the perfect spot to put my wallet down,” Nick recalls his plan. “I’d go fishing and go back and grab it on my way out.” But on the way back, not only had Nick caught no fish, there was no sign of his wallet.
“I had everything in there.” Nicks says his wallet contained his birth certificate, status card, and social insurance card. “Everything that was me was in that wallet.
” And seeing as this was back in 1991, Nick couldn’t just go online to replace it all. “It was a real kick in the stomach,” Nick says. Nick tried not to think about it over the next 33 years, until the other day when Jamie Lee was fishing off the same breakwater.
The 14-year-old’s friend had asked him to look for something that had dropped in the rocks and Jamie uncovered an old wallet instead. “It was hard and crusty,” Jamie says of the weather-worn wallet that was stamped with ‘mellow touch cowhide’ on the inside flap. “I was super surprised!” Not only did it contain ID that expired in the previous century, Jamie says there were a couple of old-fashioned video store cards too.
“They were super old!” Jamie exclaims. “Like from before me.” “We couldn’t believe it,”.