Are you an honest person?

I never used to be but karma taught me a lesson, true story.........:(

It was 1996 I had past my driving test in the August of that year and was doing 3 jobs at once. Fruit market at 3am till 10am 6 days a week and 1pm till 6pm 5 days a week, in the kwik save fruit and veg.
I also worked on my only day off Sunday, cleaning buses. :mad:

Note I have said the above to try to explain why I was so salty and didn't give a **** then.

Anyway I was working in the kwik save on the fruit and veg counter and a customer handed me a purse she had found in a basket, this was December the week before xmas.

I went in the back as the manager was on his break and I checked it, it had £220 in. :eek:

I thought all my Christmases came at once, I socked it immediately with a big smile on my face. This was around 2pm in the after noon and I didn't finnish until 6pm.

So about 2 hours later someone came into the shop and asked if they had found a purse, I was like errrr? "Nope" :(

I checked the purse when I got home it was from someone poor, they had a brighthouse card or what ever they where called then and some other, am on my arse card.

I felt bad but I was bitter working nearly every hour of the week for pittance.

Christmas came and went, my missus was in work on the 27th, so taking her to work at 8am on the 27th and karma bit my sorry arse.

Crashed into articulated lorry in a mini metro, he did pull out in front of me ( it was a Carlin beer lorry):p The bumper of the lorry stopped at my dashboard, the car was cut in two pieces it was smashed to bits.

I nearly broke my thumbs and had a few cuts from the glass smashing around me, the missus was fine just a bump on the head.

Car was wrote off totally, that is KARMA baby. ;)

Since that day I have been as honest as a days long, to a point! :D
 
I'd definitely return the card and money if the address was identifiable.
















But only after drawing some phallic symbols inside the card and feigning ignorance :)
 
I've lost my wallet on 2 occasions and got it back, minus all the money. 2nd time was about 150 quid cash, left on a bus around Xmas.. :( Probably the driver that took the cash...

Loose cash, id keep in a heartbeat... no shame at all.
Wallet/purse with ID id return as is.
Found a few phones and have been offered cash reward on 1 occasion but didnt take it. I live in a small town people are nice to each other so it feels nice to "be nice"
 
I always return money. Even once when I found a random tenner in the shop gave it to the owner :o (he said he'd put it to charity at least!).

If it was on the street I wouldn't tho! (as it wouldn't go back to owner)
 
Depends, when I was a teenager working at Waitrose I found a £50 note that someone had dropped on the floor. I didn't see who dropped it, so put it in my pocket with the intention of handing it back if someone mentioned they had lost the money. However, when nobody came forward about it I decided to keep it, wasn't about to give £50 in to a company the size of Waitrose, they'd have just chucked it into their daily takings.
 
I found someone's wallet this year actually whilst at,uni it had £20 in it, a few hundred in euros, his driving license, bank card and a boarding pass (didn't actually look at it). Anyway he was a student as his ID had an address that was miles away on it (I was on Nottingham and it was London) and he was the same age as me. so I spent an hour trawling Facebook pages and searching people, turns out he was one of those people that decided to change there last name on FB to What I'm presuming is a different family name to there ID. so I eventually found him by clicking on profile pics.

He then showed me the boarding pass was for Amsterdam the following day. Then pulled a baggy of whacky backy out the wallet and handed it to me, I chuckled and gave it straight back to him. Felt good though. Poor guy woulda been screwed if someone hadn't found it.
 
Of course I did. Never have and never will touch the Devils herb :p

Devils herb? :eek:

Brainwashed by our daft substance classification you are! ;)

In moderation, its far less harmful than alcohol or nicotine. :)

Anyway, not a discussion for here...
 
If i find a wallet, i would pocket the cash and put everything else in the bin.

That is the correct thing to do.

If i loose my wallet, it is MY FAULT, and i will accept the responsibility of that.

The loss of the wallet, cash, and having to replace the cards is my punishment, for lack of attention, for my mistake.

FYI i lost my wallet once, i paid for 2 pints at a bar, and then just left my wallet on the bar while taking drinks back to the table. I was drunk, and that is absolutely no excuse for stupid behavior.

Of course if you drop something i would tell you, unless i am in a bad mood, in which case i'll ignore it completely.

I see some people fell for it and are now triggered.
 
Uther! We know you are a bloody vegetarian!!!! Stop posting about it in every post!!!!! :D

How do you know if someone is a vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you!

Thats basically my stance too... Though I'm a bit of a kleptomaniac to be honest, anything not personally identifiable is fair game. Especially if you leave your door unlocked!

You would steal my door?
 
probably would have handed the card and £40 in since it was an old guy who might have seen it as a lot of money.

but any wallets with loads of cash and the owner probably doesn't miss it much to have so much money on him....

My GF told me she found many thousands of swiss francs and handed them in to the police, never even got a thank you card from the owner...
 
I see some people fell for it and are now triggered.

I considered it possibly done for a reaction but either way it looks a bit silly after my post.

I find the justifications people are using in some cases interesting.
 
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I'm weird, I feel physically uncomfortable lying when I don't want to. Yet can tell a completely fabricated tale if I wanted with a straight face if I wanted and have whoever is listening think me genuine.

Its a gift and a curse :(
 
Interesting thread.

I would say that the older I've got, the more honest Ive become. Loosing phones, wallets, it's not the loss of physical item but the hassle / issues it causes. This is especially true of phones as the pics / texts on them are worth far more from a sentimental point of view.

I now always try to return items, from a karma point of view, but also from a position how I would feel if I had lost them. I have returned items and am surprised at how many times the person that lost them didnt seem to appreciate it. Still I knew I had done the right thing.

If I find cash on the floor, and no one is around, then I see this as `easy come, easy go`. I've lost many a note, so just see this as life's way of giving with one hand, taking with another.

Simon
 
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