Novel United Flight Attendant Books A Special Volume Of Love

When one United flight attendant found that a passenger had left a book behind thousands of miles from its home, she took it and mailed it home.

Flight attendant Lin Kullick noticed the book, The Lemon Grove, left behind on a Chicago to London flight on December 22nd. She noted that the book had Naperville Public Library stickers on it. Naperville, Illinois is a bit west of Chicago.

Rather than leave it behind to get buried in the bowels of Heathrow lost and found, she took it with her. When she returned home to Chicago a couple days later she mailed it back to the Naperville Public Library with the following note attached:

Hello, I am a United Airlines flight attendant. I found this book on my Chicago/London flight on December 22. I would like to return it to its home on Naperville shelves, as I know it will grow homesick away from them.

The book made in back (in time to avoid fines). When the patron, Seema Goel, found out her lost booked had been found she was overjoyed. But when she found out the exact circumstances of the book’s return, she was even more thankful. See the video below.

Asked later about it, Kullick shrugged and said, “I did what you’re supposed to do. You’re supposed to put a book back on the shelf. That’s where it belongs.”

Yes, but what you did was unique and well beyond the call of duty, especially in London.

CONCLUSION

Little gestures of kindness like this make the world a more livable place. I cover so many negative stories that it nice to cover a positive one like this once in a while.