What is the right thing to do?

In this unpredicted world, I would just be a 'bystander' and mind my own business. If the girl is not honest, if I approach her she might just answer me back rudely. I do not think I want to invite any trouble. Let her deal with her own conscience. Perhaps I am just being in the 'reality' of this world.

I think that as others have said just let it be. We never know how a small blessing like the lady received may have helped her. Perhaps she has a lot of money and perhaps she has none. If it really bothered you you could have softly asked the lady if she had money for her fare and if she did not you could have paid it for her. Someday it could come around and help you as well.

I also agree with Jessi and Irene, mind your own business. Nothing harm you. The lady has no mistake, the conductor careless. Hence, I will say to the lady, with laugh how lucky she is. That might create good feeling in the bus where you sit. Maybe conversation can start from that and you won't thinking of anything like you were thinking now. Maybe if the conductor comes again she will pay the fees.

Hi favouredmost! If I would be on your situation, I will just leave the situation as it is. I am in no position to tell the lady what to do because the fact that she knows that the conductor did not collected the fare from her, she should have called his attention immediately. But since she returned the money to her pocket already, it means she did it intentionally.

I think a lot of people would just have left it alone...It was not her fault that the conductor by passed her..But she was being dishonest for not paying the fare..She probably thought it wasn't that big of a deal and maybe thought that no one saw her and put the money back in her purse.. It may have been a test for you also as it is for her..We make choices in life all the time what we do is up to us...Just be sure we're making the right ones.. Vanessa..

I would mind my own business and won't tell that lady. That lady was dishonest and the conducter was careless...If I were you, I wouldn't bother to tell them, mostly because I just don't want to create any trouble or making me look like a busybody

I would have gotten up and told the lady: I know you must be short of money. Don't worry. I'll pay your fare. I would go pay the conductor her fare. After doing that, what do you suppose the lady would do??

It seems pretty unanimous that the answer is to ignore it. If you weren't directly affected by it, leave it alone. Everybody could use a little stroke of luck these days, even if it's just getting out of paying the bus fare for the day. Be happy for the lady that she got a free pass, who knows if that made her day.

You didn't asked her to pay and that was a right decision made by you because some people who actually do not want to pay or be honest do not want take any lecture or dialog on honesty and think all are just the same. Let it be the time teaching some lessons to them. But taking it with open minded or free approach there can be some other possibilities: Like the lady did not have any money with her and was no in no way capable of paying for the tickets and she has to travel many kilometers. In that case she made the mistake for good sake of her. I can not cover many kilometers on foot. And there are other possibilities also like she also forgot the thing like the conductor.

If you ask me then I will not tell to the conductor. I will not mind if I see things like that. It is the conductors job to remember where he stopped issuing tickets. And it is not my job to tell the conductor that he skipped someone. The lady is lucky, good for her. It's up to her if she is dishonest. Or maybe she is thinking that the conductor really intended not to collect her fare.