20-09-2013, 01:10 PM
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Honesty Pays
Seems a homeless guy returned a bag which contained a lot of money ($42,000) and is now in line to receive close to £70,000 in donations.Honesty pays off for homeless Boston man
(BBC News Link)
I returned £10 to a girl in the offy this week as she gave me £16.99 out of £20 when the bottle of whisky I bought cost £13.99, £10 too much change. I a good boy I am
.Would you do the above?
20-09-2013, 02:31 PM
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If a person in a shop or in a pub gave me too much change I would definitely give it back, I think most folks are honest that way, however I did receive an overpayment from an insurance company a long time ago and the hassle I had trying to convince them they made a mistake was unbelievable, no way could they make a mistake, in the end I gave up and pocketed the 'Mistake', never heard a word about it since.
20-09-2013, 05:58 PM
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Yes, I always give any overpayment back no matter where it came from. I remember once picking up a £1 coin I saw on the ground - the quandy that put me in: couldn't keep it because it wasn't mine and couldn't take it to the police station as they'd laugh their heads off. I kept thinking it might belong to a child (part of dinner money or bus fare maybe) so I put it on the garden wall and left it there!
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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Some years ago I handed to a bus driver a purse I had found on the bus and it contained about £300. I never received any acknowledgement from the owner and I often wondered if the driver had pocketed it himself.
20-09-2013, 10:46 PM
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Uncle Vivian’s STOOP.Honesty was not exactly the corner stone of my Uncle Vivian’s personality, although I should explain that he wasn’t dishonest, he wouldn’t take advantage of the poor, the sick ,homeless or needy.
His life changed as a teenager when he picked up a single half crown (that’s 12 ½ pence) that he had discovered in a crack in one of the granite pavement edging blocks. It looked as if it had been there quite a time.
Well, in fairness , would you have picked it up? Or left it.
There was an unhappy problem developed from the half crown incident. Poor uncle hoped his find was not a one off & for quite awhile Uncle Vivian walked everywhere looking down for other coins. Pretty soon he began to stoop & as a growing lad his bones were still supple, but as he grew into manhood his bones hardened and the stoop set for ever.
Gone were the days when he was able to look up into the air in the high street in the certain hope that others would copy him & cause a gridlocked high street as the crowd gathered, spilling out into the road, all the while gazing up , at nothing.
Then one day he had a “Damascus road “ experience, more about that later.
21-09-2013, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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Uncle Vivian’s STOOP.Honesty was not exactly the corner stone of my Uncle Vivian’s personality, although I should explain that he wasn’t dishonest, he wouldn’t take advantage of the poor, the sick ,homeless or needy.
His life changed as a teenager when he picked up a single half crown (that’s 12 ½ pence) that he had discovered in a crack in one of the granite pavement edging blocks. It looked as if it had been there quite a time.
Well, in fairness , would you have picked it up? Or left it.
There was an unhappy problem developed from the half crown incident. Poor uncle hoped his find was not a one off & for quite awhile Uncle Vivian walked everywhere looking down for other coins. Pretty soon he began to stoop & as a growing lad his bones were still supple, but as he grew into manhood his bones hardened and the stoop set for ever.
Gone were the days when he was able to look up into the air in the high street in the certain hope that others would copy him & cause a gridlocked high street as the crowd gathered, spilling out into the road, all the while gazing up , at nothing.
Then one day he had a “Damascus road “ experience, more about that later.
I can only hope and pray he is steered back to the path of righteousness on the road to damascus and doesn't fall foul of any evil dictators.
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