So on my way home from work today

[stan butler]

Re: So on my way home from work today

I stop off at my local shop (bout 100 yards from my house) to get a few things. Get home and about 10 mins later my doorbell goes. A young lad about 7 or 8 standing there, holding my wallet out and his Gran stood at my gate.
I’d dropped it on the road getting into my van, and the lad and his Gran had found it. There was £100 in there and they’d got my address from a business card in there.
I thanked them for their honesty, and after checking with the Gran, gave the lad £10 as a reward.
When i went back in doors and told my wife, she called me a tight arse, and said i should have given him more.
Opinions?

I would have given 30 :thumbup:

[stan butler]

Re: So on my way home from work today

10% tip seems fair. He was doing it put of honesty not for the money obviously.

My wife would be like you should have given him half, well he may as well have kept it then

Not really because £50 is better than having nothing which it would have been if someone less honest had found it

[The Bloop]

Re: So on my way home from work today

£10 is absolutely fine. That would mean a lot for a 7 year old.

[William Treseder]

Re: So on my way home from work today

On Reflection, i should have maybe given him £20. I liked the idea of mentioning it to his school, but i don’t
know the lad and can’t recall seeing him or his gran before.
Yrs ago when i was in my 20’s, i was working on the Toys R Us building leading up to Christmas.
I went to a phone box on the Hayes and there was a woman using it. After she finished and left, i went in and noticed she’d left her purse on the shelf. It was loaded with cash.
I saw her walking up toward the snack bar, so ran after her and gave it back to her.
She was so elated. She said it was all her Christmas money for her family and was trying to hand me some cash as a reward
I politely refused and went on my way.
Felt so good about being honest..

[mazadona10]

Re: So on my way home from work today

I think what you did was right. I'm sure he will get into stealing when he gets older and the money you gave him won't deter him

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: So on my way home from work today

I stop off at my local shop (bout 100 yards from my house) to get a few things. Get home and about 10 mins later my doorbell goes. A young lad about 7 or 8 standing there, holding my wallet out and his Gran stood at my gate.
I’d dropped it on the road getting into my van, and the lad and his Gran had found it. There was £100 in there and they’d got my address from a business card in there.
I thanked them for their honesty, and after checking with the Gran, gave the lad £10 as a reward.
When i went back in doors and told my wife, she called me a tight arse, and said i should have given him more.
Opinions?

8 years ago, when my son was born, I took loads of photos on my phone. When I got home in the evening I popped into the Chinese for some supper. Later on that evening I noticed my phone had disappeared. Did everything; rang it, retraced my steps, everything. No sign of it. I went to bed and felt sick that I'd lost all of the photos of his first day after being born, family coming to visit, etc.

The following morning I rang it again and someone answered. They'd found it outside the Chinese. We agreed on a mutally convenient location for me to collect it. I offered to give the guy £20. He refused to accept it, no matter how persistent I was. It turned out that he knew my wife and her family through them going to the same church, so I told him to use it there, which he did.

[William Treseder]

Re: So on my way home from work today

8 years ago, when my son was born, I took loads of photos on my phone. When I got home in the evening I popped into the Chinese for some supper. Later on that evening I noticed my phone had disappeared. Did everything; rang it, retraced my steps, everything. No sign of it. I went to bed and felt sick that I'd lost all of the photos of his first day after being born, family coming to visit, etc.

The following morning I rang it again and someone answered. They'd found it outside the Chinese. We agreed on a mutally convenient location for me to collect it. I offered to give the guy £20. He refused to accept it, no matter how persistent I was. It turned out that he knew my wife and her family through them going to the same church, so I told him to use it there, which he did.

Nice 👍

[jimmyscoular]

Re: So on my way home from work today

On Reflection, i should have maybe given him £20. I liked the idea of mentioning it to his school, but i don’t
know the lad and can’t recall seeing him or his gran before.
Yrs ago when i was in my 20’s, i was working on the Toys R Us building leading up to Christmas.
I went to a phone box on the Hayes and there was a woman using it. After she finished and left, i went in and noticed she’d left her purse on the shelf. It was loaded with cash.
I saw her walking up toward the snack bar, so ran after her and gave it back to her.
She was so elated. She said it was all her Christmas money for her family and was trying to hand me some cash as a reward
I politely refused and went on my way.
Felt so good about being honest..

Kindness is its own reward. I can't fathom the mind that would take the money and not give a rip about the misery imposed on a woman doing her Christmas shopping. How could you not hate yourself, awake or asleep? The ghosts of every person who ever meant anything to me would accuse me every minute.

Hell, no. Be honest. Feel good.

Properly done, mate.

[Joe Gillis]

Re: So on my way home from work today

I don't like the sound of this kid

[blue matt]

Re: So on my way home from work today

On Reflection, i should have maybe given him £20. I liked the idea of mentioning it to his school, but i don’t
know the lad and can’t recall seeing him or his gran before.
Yrs ago when i was in my 20’s, i was working on the Toys R Us building leading up to Christmas.
I went to a phone box on the Hayes and there was a woman using it. After she finished and left, i went in and noticed she’d left her purse on the shelf. It was loaded with cash.
I saw her walking up toward the snack bar, so ran after her and gave it back to her.
She was so elated. She said it was all her Christmas money for her family and was trying to hand me some cash as a reward
I politely refused and went on my way.
Felt so good about being honest..

Thats Karma at work

I am a firm believer in it, not to the extent of Earl, but still a believer

[NYCBlue]

Re: So on my way home from work today

I probably would have given him £20. But there's nothing wrong with £10. Some people wouldn't give a penny. You did the right thing. I'd put it out of my mind if I were you.

[sneggyblubird]

Re: So on my way home from work today

On Reflection, i should have maybe given him £20. I liked the idea of mentioning it to his school, but i don’t
know the lad and can’t recall seeing him or his gran before.
Yrs ago when i was in my 20’s, i was working on the Toys R Us building leading up to Christmas.
I went to a phone box on the Hayes and there was a woman using it. After she finished and left, i went in and noticed she’d left her purse on the shelf. It was loaded with cash.
I saw her walking up toward the snack bar, so ran after her and gave it back to her.
She was so elated. She said it was all her Christmas money for her family and was trying to hand me some cash as a reward
I politely refused and went on my way.
Felt so good about being honest..

I remember walking into my bank in the 70's and taking out 100 pounds only to find the teller in fact had given me 110.Two things I remember about that incident,the look on his face when I went back in to tell him and the last line of your post sums up the other.