AR385 From Mexico, joined Nov 2003, 4847 posts, RR: 27 Posted (5 months 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2215 times:
In the spirit of the season, I´d like to share a story that happened to me yesterday.
I was in a mall near my house, huge eyesore, but convenient, doing some Christmas shopping. So I came back home in the afternoon and had a nap. I heard the doorbell ring and paid no attention. Later, my brother comes in, and tells me "someone just came by and brought your wallet." A young lady. Turns out I had dropped it somewhere in the mall, and this lady picked it up. She took her time to look through it, fnd my ID and came to my house to return it. Everything was there, all the cash, all the cards, all the documents. She accepted no reward, and left no info. Too bad, my brother says she was hot, to boot.
Any similar stories? ´Tis the season to be jolly...
stratosphere From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 1614 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (5 months 1 week 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 2095 times:
Thats cool .. You don't see that happen too often...I remember my brother had laid is motorcycle down and slid on his butt guess he tore his jeans up and lost his wallet..Well someone found it and brought it to the house. Of course the money was gone.. But his license was there. If I was to guess I would say they found the wallet took the money and brought it to the house for some kind of reward which we gave them because we really didn't know if they took the money or not. Just glad to get the wallet back...You were lucky to get all of it back.
Went thru a fast food drive thru the other day and when I got to the window, she told me that the guy in front of me had paid for my food.......SO, I paid for the guy behind me and came out a dollar ahead, to boot. I'm just glad he wasn't driving a Suburban full of hungry folks.
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kiwiinoz From New Zealand, joined Oct 2005, 2029 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (5 months 1 week 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 2032 times:
Quoting mayor (Reply 3): Went thru a fast food drive thru the other day and when I got to the window, she told me that the guy in front of me had paid for my food.......SO, I paid for the guy behind me and came out a dollar ahead, to boot. I'm just glad he wasn't driving a Suburban full of hungry folks.
KaiGywer From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 12027 posts, RR: 43 Reply 5, posted (5 months 1 week 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 2018 times:
bristolflyer From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 2135 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (5 months 1 week 3 days 14 hours ago) and read 2001 times:
I was at DEN a couple of years ago and was walking through one of the parking lots and found a credit card from a local Credit Union. I called the number on the back of the card, described what had happened and the operator was amazed I had called. She called the owner of the card who was still at the airport, by the time I had got to the airport on the shuttle bus she was waiting for me at the curb and I gave her the card. She was very grateful - as you would be if you had just avoided going away without a credit card. I declined the $5 she offered me - told her to do the same to someone else at some point.
I was way excited that I had done someone a good turn!
3DoorsDown From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 368 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (5 months 1 week 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1970 times:
You guys are all cool. I went through a Mc Donalds drive through one morning and like Mayor above had the lady in front of me pay for my food. A few weeks later at the same place I decided whoever pulled in behind me I was going to buy their food. It happened to be a Snohomish County cop. I bought it and went on about my business. A couple days later I got pulled over for no apparent reason after work and was getting a little ticked off until the cop walked up and told me he just wanted to say thanks for the breakfast the other day. Kind of made my day all three days.
ZKSUJ From New Zealand, joined May 2004, 6937 posts, RR: 10 Reply 10, posted (5 months 1 week 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1885 times:
This is a very positive thread, it's great. I used to work part time in a mall car park where many people were rude and treated us staff like dumb idiots. This was even more apparent during the the lead up to Christmas where people were stressed and the season of 'good will to man', 'caring and thoughtfulness' was non existent. It's good to to see many people still have a sense of honesty and integrity
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13342 posts, RR: 64 Reply 11, posted (5 months 1 week 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 1875 times:
Last night, around midnight, somebody knocked at my door. It was a guy, who happened to drive by in the street and noticed that I left the lights on on my truck. Without him the battery would have been flat in the morning.
aerdingus From Ireland, joined Dec 2006, 2486 posts, RR: 18 Reply 12, posted (5 months 1 week 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1795 times:
The other day my travel card was -40c for the €1.40 fare to my house. As I went to get off the bus, I noticed the door was still closed, & he asked where I was going, & let me stay on the bus home! I was waiting for a thread like this for this story And with all the horrible stuff going on in the world everywhere, this thread is really nice to see.
Have a good day everyone!
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flyingturtle From Switzerland, joined Oct 2011, 1289 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (5 months 1 week 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1783 times:
I had such a thing about five weeks ago. I found a wallet, looked it through for any ID, found the mass transit card with the address on it, called the phone directory, got the number of her parents (who barely spoke German), which gave me her mobile number, and then we met.
I simply got a "thank you" and she went away - and I'm happy about having been able to save a lot of trouble for somebody.
Some years ago, on a windy day at the end of the school year, a schoolgirl lost her drawings. They fluttered over a busy road with a lot of truck traffic, over a sidewalk, some into the grass, and I fetched some of them, while the girl went after the others. But then, she left the scene.
On all the drawings, she noted her first name and the first letter of her last name. Under a complete and utter disregard for privacy, the school authority found out and e-mailed me her address (it's a 170'000 people town), I got her mother on the phone, and both were very happy because I retrieved both the drawing she liked best and liked least.
David
Even a letdown, if it is thoroughly and final, is a step forward.
AlnessW From United States of America, joined Jun 2010, 618 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (5 months 1 week 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1767 times:
My rocket club holds our monthly meetings at a local Italian restaurant. Every meeting the same server works in the restaurant's meeting room for us, taking our dinner orders and bringing out any food/beverages. She's a very young girl, maybe 19 or 20 years old, but she does a great job every time. One year, a good friend of mine (who was club president at the time) started an annual group collection for her, as a thank you for all of her hard work. Everyone was asked to contribute, and in the end they brought in almost $1000 for her. I wasn't there, but apparently both our server and our club president were almost tearing up.
VC10BOAC From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 389 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (5 months 1 week 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1725 times:
Well slightly different take but here goes. Many years ago I was on a date with a woman I met in a bar couple days earlier. She was hot!! Anyway things were going really well. Then she went to the ladies room. Came back and said we need to leave NOW!! No explanation. On my way taking her home, it turned out that she had found a purse in the ladies room and took it. She wanted to leave before the owner realized and came back for it. I was totally disgusted and took the purse away from her. I then stopped the car and put her out right there on the spot. Went back to the bar and gave the purse to the bartender who confirmed that someone had realized that she lost a purse.
I see nothing unusual with the initial post. This is how we are supposed to act in civilized society.
N867DA From United States of America, joined May 2008, 974 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (5 months 1 week 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1715 times:
Quoting fr8mech (Reply 2): Actually, the vast majority of people we interact with on a daily basis are not jerks. It's just that jerks get all the attention.
This is very true. Most people aren't opportunists. If everybody was a passive thief or pickpocket, we'd need to start locking our wallets to a string tied to our jeans!
DocLightning From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 16824 posts, RR: 57 Reply 17, posted (5 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 1626 times:
Quoting N867DA (Reply 16): This is very true. Most people aren't opportunists. If everybody was a passive thief or pickpocket, we'd need to start locking our wallets to a string tied to our jeans!
There are chain wallets (were quite popular for a while) that attached to the belt.
aloges From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 8358 posts, RR: 47 Reply 18, posted (5 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1618 times:
Quoting VC10BOAC (Reply 15): I see nothing unusual with the initial post. This is how we are supposed to act in civilized society.
I agree entirely, mainly because I firmly believe that "what goes around comes around". If you act respectfully, it will be rewarded, but if you act like a jerk, people will treat you like one - not least because the way you act does somewhat define your personality.
Walk together, talk together all ye peoples of the earth. Then, and only then, shall ye have peace.
FlyDeltaJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 1625 posts, RR: 3 Reply 21, posted (5 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1510 times:
I always try to help anyone that I can. There is this feeling that comes over me that I can't really explain when I do good for someone else. Sometimes people accuse me of being too nice. I say there is no such thing. You are only as nice and helpful as you want to be.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13342 posts, RR: 64 Reply 22, posted (5 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1505 times:
Quoting N867DA (Reply 19): Quoting DocLightning (Reply 17):
There are chain wallets (were quite popular for a while) that attached to the belt.
I thought of those while writing the post, but always assumed they were worn by people going for a certain image/look and not for security.
Motorcycle gangsters (Hell´s Angels type) used to wear them over here, but they were also quite popular with waiters / waitresses because they would often carry larger amounts of money on the job and having it chained to the belt prevented them from accidentally leaving the wallet on some table.
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