FelixDeCat
Lifer
Not only is there satisfaction but a connection was made. Christians are supposed to do the right thing. Nobody is perpect, but we try.
I would also like my add my Kudos to the OP.:thumbsup:
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Found a money clip in grocery store parking lot
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Not only is there satisfaction but a connection was made. Christians are supposed to do the right thing. Nobody is perpect, but we try.
I would also like my add my Kudos to the OP.:thumbsup:
guyver01
Lifer
LOL i love ATOT... everyone tips 40%, obeys all the laws, makes 6-figures, pulls to the side on all the roads to let other drivers pass, and returns everything they find in the street to the police.
BULL SHIT... i seriously doubt 90% of the people in this thread saying "oh, i'd turn it into the police.. it's the moral thing to do" would even do it..
i know i wouldn't
as was said earlier, no id, no owner.
if losing that much money is important to you... PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE FUCK YOUR DOING.
BULL SHIT... i seriously doubt 90% of the people in this thread saying "oh, i'd turn it into the police.. it's the moral thing to do" would even do it..
i know i wouldn't
as was said earlier, no id, no owner.
if losing that much money is important to you... PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE FUCK YOUR DOING.
Modelworks
Lifer
:thumbsup:
Modelworks
Lifer
Please tell me you are sterile.
The thought of you having kids and teaching those values is frightening.
Modelworks
Lifer
That isn't responsibility. That is being ignorant. But then you never make mistakes .
guyver01
Lifer
No.. what is ignorant is carrying around $500 in cash in your pocket and then losing it.
I make mistakes, plenty of them, but I take responsibility for them. If i screw up or lose something, I LOST IT and i wasn't doing what should be done. I don't rely on others to fix my errors. I do what i need to. And if something gets lost... its lost. lesson learned and stepts taken to insure the issue does not occur going forward. That is called Personal Responsibility.
MrChad
Lifer
I don't see how your point is relevant to the OP. He didn't lose the money clip, he found it. It sounds like you are advocating that he keep the money clip for himself to teach the person who lost it some kind of lesson.
I think the golden rule applies quite well here: Do unto others as you would have done unto you.
I see what you're saying...
If I lost that much cash, I would hope that I would be able to get it back. I know the odds would be astronomically small, but I would still hope.
I'm not hurting for money and I just acted out what I would have wanted should the same thing happened to me.
It was a silly error on his part to lose that much and not even have the slightest idea it happened until WAY after the fact.
Call it his mulligan, if you like.
MistaFreeze
Senior member
Don't do any of the ideas people posted here because now they know the description and they could have the money! OMG.
boomerang
Lifer
It's nice to see that there are still people in the world that will do the right thing. Hat's off to you JJ650! You win the ATOT integrity award for June of 2009. :thumbsup:
I always like to make a mental note of the lowlife's and the scum here and there are several that have been added to my list from this thread. Some I already knew about, some I suspected and some have been confirmed.
I always like to make a mental note of the lowlife's and the scum here and there are several that have been added to my list from this thread. Some I already knew about, some I suspected and some have been confirmed.
ConstipatedVigilante
Diamond Member
This. Just imagine how thankful you would be to have $570 returned to you; IMO it's enough to kick yourself over and over for dropping that much money. I had my wallet stolen straight out of my locker at the gym, incidentally I had gotten a lock that day and forgot to bring it. Thieves and unscrupulous people are the scum of the earth - they just inconvenience and stress the good people.
I don't understand how people don't feel guilty about not even making an effort to help out another person.
2Xtreme21
Diamond Member
:thumbsup:
Good job, OP. I was sitting outside eating at a table when I worked in the city last year and I spotted a wallet on the chair of a table next to mine. I picked it up and there was quite a bit of money in it. I left it out on my table as I continued to eat thinking the guy would come back. He didn't, so I called the number on a business card he had in there, which turned out to be a client of his-- but the client had his office number, which he gave me. I called that and got his secretary who said he was out, but she gave me his cell phone number. So I finally called that, the guy picked up and you can tell he was panicking. Met him at the table about 20 minutes later, tried giving me the money in the wallet, but I told him no.
Ended up being late getting back to work, but I still felt really good about waiting for him. When I left my iPhone on the bus a few months later and someone was nice enough to take it to the port authority station and get in contact with me through my contacts, I really started to believe in karma. The lady could have easily swiped it (I didn't have it password protected or anything), but she went way out of her way to get in touch with me about it.
There are still good people in the world, and thank you OP for doing the right thing. You don't know how stressed out you get after losing something important and then having to hope a good person will do the right thing. The relief you get after being reunited with your lost, valuable object is unparalleled.
CoinOperatedBoy
Golden Member
Leaving the money where you found it would be the most neutral thing you could do. You neither deprive the person of the chance to locate it, nor go out of your way to return it.
What you're describing is just being a greedy bastard who justifies it by pretending to be some kind of morality cop who teaches people to be more careful. You needn't benefit from someone else's loss.
OP, that's what I call a happy ending, and good on you! And thanks to MrChad for reminding us of the Golden Rule. This whole thread contains the reply to those who would dodge the issue and just leave it there for someone else to find and handle. It appears there are 'way too many who would simply take it, and not enough honest people like OP.
Do the right thing, like JJ650 did!
Do the right thing, like JJ650 did!
BoomerD
No Lifer
Well done. I've always believed that I had above-average ethics, but "anonymous cash" is a tester...I USUALLY make the attempt to do the right thing however.
Several years ago, I was working at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA. We were filling the catalyst containers, but had reached a "stop work" situation for a couple of hours. I was wandering around the area and found a money clip with over $1300 in it.
<insert Daffy Duck, "I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm independently wealthy!">
BUT, my better judgement took over. Most of the crew I was working with was from out of state, brought in just for this job...I noticed the foreman was looking a bit...worried and was looking around the area.
I asked what was up...and he told me that he had lost his money clip...and told me almost to the dollar how much was in it. He had cashed his check the night before, but hadn't had time to buy the money order to send to his family.
I thought the big mofo was gonna kiss me when I handed him that money clip.
I became an "instant celebrity" on the job. The foreman was very highly thought of by his crew, and I had just "saved his bacon" by returning the money to him.
I guess the "what comes around, goes around" does actually work. This past Feb., we stopped at Lowes for some plants and misc., and as we left, when I pulled the wad of keys out of my pocket, unbeknownst to me, my money clip fell out of my pocket.
I didn't notice until a couple of days later when I was getting ready for school.
I "mentally backtracked" the last places we had been, and even though I KNEW the money was gone, (only about $80...but it was textbook money) I started calling around.
Sure enough, one of the Lowes employees had found it and turned it in.
They didn't know WHO it was, so I couldn't even thank the person, let alone hand them a $20 as a reward, NOR would the store manager allow me to donate $20 to the employee coffee fund, summer picnic fund. etc., so all I was left with was writing a nice letter to corporate commending the unknown employee.
Again, good job OP. You did the right thing.
nublikescake
Senior member
+1. Mad props to the OP. :thumbsup:
meltdown75
Lifer
LOL, i made someone's shit list because of an internet thread :laugh:
FWIW of course i would return the cash. it's just too much fun to say i wouldn't and watch all the holier-than-thou keyboard jockeys get their panties in a twist.
FWIW of course i would return the cash. it's just too much fun to say i wouldn't and watch all the holier-than-thou keyboard jockeys get their panties in a twist.
CoinOperatedBoy
Golden Member
Well, of course that just makes you a troll, and actually less interesting than the person who actually would pocket the money guiltlessly.
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