would you really give back $1000 if you found them laying on the floor

United States
October 1, 2008 1:47pm CST
Ok so someone who works at the same company I work at found a pile of $100 bills, he came up to the receptionist desk where i happened to be sitting at. He said "I found this out in the hallway, and I'm guessing that the person who lost it would be comming to see you first". I said "oookkkaaayyyy"(confused) took a quick glance at the money and realized that it was all $100 bills. I didn't even want to count it(yes that's how big the pile was). The building dosen't have a lost and found, and what if no one ever claimed it? would that then mean that it was mine? I let people in my office know that if anyone came to them letting them know that they had lost some money to come let me know because, some was found. On my way home I counted it. It was a total of $3300, I thought "wow someone could really be crying for this money right now" I left it in a safe. where no one else but me had access to it. The next day, I came into work, and found a sticky that said hey it's (somebody that works with me) please give me a call I met the person that's missing the money. I met the person that had lost the money, It was one of the guys working on some constructions for the building. Someone who really needed that money. I was so glad he had gotten his money back, it was like a cinderella story. Also the person that gave me the money, got a call from his wife 13 min after he gave me the money saying, she'd just gotten a raise of $13,000. Is that good karma or what? But what would you do? Really?
1 response
• United States
1 Oct 08
I would give it back. the $1000 would not be mine to keep. What if someone needed it for their medications? Who am I to say "Well, finders keepers, losers weepers," and yet, they could be going into a diabetic coma because they didn't have their medicine? It's not right to keep it. Giving it back would be doing a good deed for someone else- being a good Samaritan is a wonderful feeling.