Why did a gift card end up in my car?

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Today we were out running around hitting a lot of places at one time. We had to go to about 5 different stores and our in-laws house. My husband decided to take out POS (piece of sh!t) car since we got it for the "running around" kinda stuff. The thing with this car is that if you lock the drivers side door, you have to unlock the passenger side and climb across to open the drivers side. So we just leave the windows down and don't lock it. Our first stop was Office Depot and my husband hands me his wallet to put in my purse. I don't really have room in there for it so I told him to leave it. I figure is someone sees this crappy car with the windows down and it all unlocked they'd figure there was nothing in it. So he leaves it in the console. When we get back in the car, there's a $25 American Express gift card on the floor. I know it wasn't there before and I have no clue how it got there. We were joking that someone felt sorry for us having this car and out of the kindness of their hearts threw it in there for us. We don't need it, but let me tell you, a free $25 is a free $25! First thing I do is call the number to see if it's been used up. I have a smart-phone and the number to call is all letters. My phone has the keypad so I don't have the letters on the numbers. I'm trying to figure out where each letter belongs, but I musta dialed wrong. I got a recording that said I can't call that number from my calling area. So I waited for our next stop - our in-laws to use their computer. On the computer, it said that there was $25 available on the card. WOOHOO!!! Our next stop was Home Depot to return a bush that died on us. I figured we'd use the gift card to buy a new one. Well, it didn't work. Eh, no biggie, it was "found" money so it wasn't a big deal if it didn't work. Tonight when I got home, I decided to check it again to see if maybe it had been used, but just not recorded yet. It still shows that $25 is available. I'm going to check it again tomorrow afternoon because it's a weekend and all. That would be way cool if it really was a good card, but I don't know how to get to use it now. And if it's a card that's already been used, it's no big deal because it's not like we're out anything. Have you ever been given something for no reason?