Chick-Fil-A Employee’s Kind Act Turns Into Nine-Year Friendship With Sunday School Teacher Who Lost $1,200

Victor Long, a Sunday school teacher, was shown kindness by a fast food employee who returned to him $1,200 that he lost back on April Fools Day of 2015 while eating breakfast at Chick-fil-A. That incident has turned into a a nine-year friendship.

Here what happened. Long was sitting at a Decatur, Georgia, Chick-fil-A when a stack of cash fell from his pocket and onto the floor. Long intended to take the money to deposit into the bank and was unaware that he had dropped the cash on the floor until he arrived at the bank.

Long, who is also civil rights attorney, told a news outlet that he didn’t know where he had dropped the money because he had traveled to so many different places during the day. The Sunday school teacher at Beulah Baptist Church accepted that he had lost all of it and didn’t try to retrace his steps.

“I figured anybody who found the money, the way people need things now, probably never was going to come back,” Long said.

He resigned himself to working to replace the lost funds and tried to keep a good attitude about the whole thing. Long added, “I hoped that whoever got the money would need it and I was satisfied with that. And I thought that if someone who found it needed it, it would be a blessing to me.”

Luckily, a kind Chick-fil-A employee was spotted on security camera footage finding Long’s cash. The employee, Jacob King, decided to do the right thing. King recalled being worried about whoever had lost so much money. He described, “I just looked down and I saw a little green square thing on the floor. I picked it up, and I was a little worried that somebody was missing that much money.”

King brought the money to his manager and the two began searching for who had dropped the cash in the restaurant. With the help of the local news station, they were able to identify and find Long. 

The Sunday school teacher was struck by the kindness of King and the rest of the workers making such an effort to return his money to him. “That shows the goodness in him as well as the goodness in this establishment,” Long said, “that they have good people here. Good honest people who are willing to work and to serve.”

King assured that it was no big deal, as he was just following his principles.

“You only really have two ways to go about things, there’s the right way and there’s every other way. And that’s pretty much all there is to it.”

The lost-and-found incident turned into a friendship.

Following the exchange, Long and King engaged in conversation, during which the older man extended a gesture of gratitude and friendship for the fast food employee’s honesty. Long invited King and his mother to attend their church as guests and to join him and his wife for Sunday dinner. And, the rest, as they say is history.

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