HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – In a Christmas mix-up, two women went shopping and bought gifts before accidentally leaving them in the wrong car.
Kylynn Stoval says she and her sister, Kyndsey, went to Belk at Parkway Place in Huntsville on Tuesday night to do some Christmas shopping. After they bought a new $300 hairdryer (for her job) and a $150 gift card for their mother, they got into their mother’s Kia Soul to leave.
However, it wasn’t the right car. They were in a Kia Soul with the exact same gray shade, a few spots down from their mother’s car.
Stoval says once they realized their mistake, they rushed to get out of the wrong car, leaving their Christmas gifts in the back seat. But neither of them actually realized it until they got home.
“I almost wanted to cry, but I didn’t. I looked at Kyndsey, because I realized everything happened for a reason, and accidents happen, right?” Stoval said. “So, I just gave her a hug because she was very upset. “She was beating herself up, and I’m like, ‘It’s okay. It’s okay.’”
Having no clue how they’d get the gifts back, they turned to Facebook in hopes of finding the owner of the other Kia Soul. As luck would have it, that car’s owner, Matthew Wyatt, had already posted on Facebook that he was looking for them.
“I got so excited. I had the razor in my hand. I ran out of the shower naked to the back porch, where my sister and mom were, screaming,” Stoval said, laughing. “They thought something was wrong with me. That’s how much that hairdryer means to me, and my mom’s Christmas.”
Wednesday afternoon, Wyatt went to Roosters — where Stovall works as a barber — to return her gifts.
Wyatt says when he first saw them in his car, he was incredibly confused.
“I thought for a second, maybe we’ve been secret-Santa’d or something, somebody dropped it off in our car for us,” Wyatt said. “But we don’t have any use for a curling iron and all that. It just felt weird, and I don’t want to be the cause of somebody’s ruined Christmas.”
Stoval says she’s so incredibly thankful for Wyatt’s effort to find her, because she imagines some others would have just kept the gifts instead of doing the right thing.
But Wyatt says he didn’t think twice.
“I have to get this back to them,” he thought. “Keeping it? The thought didn’t cross my mind. I just wanted to get it back and make somebody’s day.”
Stoval, like many others on social media, called this a Christmas miracle.
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