Yesterday, I forgot my backpack on a train going to Tampere. With my laptop, my wallet, my medicine, my documents. All inside.
I called lost and found. They told me that IF they find it I can earliest get it back next week. Not this weekend for sure.
Unfortunately, I have to leave again on Sunday.
So I went to the station. And here my wonderful journey of talking to people who actually care begins:
She says she cannot do more as it hasn’t arrived yet, but gives me the address of the lost and found office in Tampere. Where I then go...
All these people could have told me that they are not responsible and that they cannot do anything. All of them would have been right.
But all of them helped me.
Functioning public services where you can actually call someone when you have a problem MAKE SO MUCH SENSE.
Also: Whoever tells you that Finns are cold and distant, the caring and warmth I received yesterday proves them absolutely wrong. 😍