A homeless man who received some change from a stranger raced after him - to return the £100 he’d just dropped.
Retired architect Brian Hughes had been withdrawing money from a cash machine in Mumbles ahead of a holiday when he handed over a few coins to a man sat on the pavement nearby.
But just as he was about to drive away from the village, having got into his car parked nearby, he heard a tap on his window - with the stranger he had just given money to holding a handful of notes.
Mr Hughes said: “I had been to Tesco and there was a man sitting a few metres away. We smiled at each other and I gave him a quid.
“And he must have followed me because I heard a knocking and he had £100 in his hand, which he said I had dropped at the cash machine.
“I was taking the money out for a holiday I was about to go on. I wasn’t aware I had dropped it until he came banging on the window.
“He even called me sir. I’m not a ‘sir’, I’m just a bloke”.
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Mr Hughes said he was planning to invite the man to his home for lunch, once he was able to locate him again.
“I have total respect for him for that. It is not often you find someone as honest as that. It shows you have to be very careful about judging people.”
