Would you have returned this?

[binny]

Today at the store I passed a woman at the customer service desk.

I heard her say " I found this dollar in the parking lot so here it is, in case someone comes looking for it"

The cashier kind of gave her an attitude and said " Its just a dollar, I really doubt anyone will bother. Why dont you just keep it?" The woman politely refused and said " You never know, it may make a difference to someone"
Then she walked away.


Would you have returned a dollar to the store that you found in parking lot? How about $5? $10?


I think I would have returned it. You just never know.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I would've kept it, no matter the amount. But that's just me.

TOV

 

[ohiominnie]

Yes. Probably would have returned it. Pennies and nickles my kids find, that's another story (especially if they are "lucky" heads up) but $1 in a parking lot I'd have returned.

Heck, I returned a generic (read as free promotion) pedometer I found WAAAAAAAAYYYYY out in the mall parking lot where no one else was parked (park far away, it's better exercise)....

 

[Cool-Beans]

No, I wouldn't have bothered. I got $50 extra from a teller at the bank once and returned that...boy, was she happy to get it back.

 

[beagle744]

I work at a large university and while walking across campus at the end of the day I found $100. I was late afternoon and no one was in sight. I could have pocketed it but I ended up turning it in to our police. It was close to Christmas and I kept thinking this might belong to some poor student who was going to use it to get home for the holidays or buy presents or something. I figured I didn't have that $100 at the beginning of the day so I was no worse off at the end of the day by turning it in.

I don't know what lesser amount would be my "keep" threshold since, I have never found money I couldn't give to its rightful owner other than that one time.

 

[Cantw8]

nope...would have gone right to McDonald's and got a double cheeseburger

 

[lovesmurfs]

Cash, loose, no.

Anything else -- wallets, extra change from any cashier (even $1), traceable items, stuff left in shopping carts, yes, definitely. I've even returned extra bags from someone else's grocery order.

 

[JR6ooo4]

More and more as I get older. But within reason, I returned a quarter (too much change) to a WDW gift shop. But the odds someone going back to claim a dollar are kind of slim. Unless it was a youngster and his/her only dollar.



MIkeeee

 

[brittsmum1998]

karma....'nuff said

 

[SDFgirl]

Probably not a dollar. Twenty dollars or more, I'd return.

 

[Pam]

My son (now a senior in HS) found $5.00 in the parking lot of the grocery story when he was in 5th grade. He turned it into customer service.

About 7 years ago I found a roll of cash in the parking lot of the post office about a month before Christmas. I didn't count it, just turned right around and went back inside and turned it in. The postal employee counted it - was around $80.00. They took down my name and after 4 or 6 weeks, they told me it had never been claimed and gave the money to me.

In my teens I worked as a cashier at a truckstop. If you were short anything over a dollar, you paid for that out of your pocket. If I discover that I've been given too much change, I immediately hand it back over.

I try to do the same thing with found money.

 

[ADisneyQueen]

I would have put it in the offering plate at church if I felt that bad about taking a dollar off the road.

 

[MrsPete]

Coins I'll keep.

Dollars, if there's a reasonable way to figure out who lost it, I'll return it. Often, there's no reasonable way.

I have found wallets twice, and each time I've called the owner to return them.

 

[precious pixie]

yes I would give it back I don really live y the finders keepers policy, it belongs to someone else.

 

[momrek06]

When I was 20yo I went to my bank to request a "bank check" to pay my rent. After the clerk handed me my check, I asked her if she would have an empty envelope (bank envelope) to put my check in until I got home. She said yes. Handed me a white envelope and I returned to work.

I sat down at my desk (mind you this was 1980) and opened the envelope to put the check in for later for the landlord WHEN I noticed a CHECK already in the envelope.

I took it out and GASPED....it was a check made out to CASH for THREE MILLION DOLLARS...I am not lying....I FREAKED. I ran into my Boss' office and showed him, he FREAKED and said that either I or HE would run the check back before the bank finds it missing and the teller in trouble.

YUP, so one day, 32 years ago, I actually had THREE MILLION DOLLARS in my hand.

THE BANK ALL BUT THREW A PARTY FOR ME!!! They were very happy I returned the check!!!!

p.s. OP, not sure about that $1.00 though...

 

[Cool-Beans]

When I was 20yo I went to my bank to request a "bank check" to pay my rent. After the clerk handed me my check, I asked her if she would have an empty envelope (bank envelope) to put my check in until I got home. She said yes. Handed me a white envelope and I returned to work.

I sat down at my desk (mind you this was 1980) and opened the envelope to put the check in for later for the landlord WHEN I noticed a CHECK already in the envelope.

I took it out and GASPED....it was a check made out to CASH for THREE MILLION DOLLARS...I am not lying....I FREAKED. I ran into my Boss' office and showed him, he FREAKED and said that either I or HE would run the check back before the bank finds it missing and the teller in trouble.

YUP, so one day, 32 years ago, I actually had THREE MILLION DOLLARS in my hand.

THE BANK ALL BUT THREW A PARTY FOR ME!!! They were very happy I returned the check!!!!

p.s. OP, not sure about that $1.00 though...

This is amazing! Good for you! I'd hate to be in the position of having to decide what to do.

Did you get some kind of reward?

 

[momrek06]

Did you get some kind of reward?

No, no reward, but they were sooo thankful. It was my bank that I frequented and I was warmly welcomed for years after that every time I went in there. And I knew this was a HUGE error on the Teller's part!!!

As I recall, I think THEY asked me if THEY could do something for me, but I said naaa...basically, who would NOT have returned the check!!!

I will never forget it either...It was a soft/light green check all typed out and the numbers written out with allllll those zeros!!!!

 

[MushyMushy]

I'm a pretty honest person. If I could see where the cash came from, I'd definitely turn it back in, and there's no question I'd give it back if it came from a cashier. Like another poster said, I'm not sure where my cutoff would be, but I certainly wouldn't bother with $1, $5, or $10. $20, it would depend on where I was -- for example, if it was a huge megastore parking lot, then probably not; in a small store lot, then yes. $50, again, it depends on where I am. Anything $100 or over, I'd go to the police. I think that's reasonable.

 

[Charade]

No. I'd get 1/2.5th's of a Mickey bar with it.

 

[Cool-Beans]

No, no reward, but they were sooo thankful. It was my bank that I frequented and I was warmly welcomed for years after that every time I went in there. And I knew this was a HUGE error on the Teller's part!!!

As I recall, I think THEY asked me if THEY could do something for me, but I said naaa...basically, who would NOT have returned the check!!!

I will never forget it either...It was a soft/light green check all typed out and the numbers written out with allllll those zeros!!!!

Weren't you even a little, eensy-weensy bit tempted to keep it? I know I was, even with $50 bucks! But three million?!