A Dawg's eye view

b) turn it in to the front desk

Yep, I'd take it to the front desk too.

Turn it in.

Thanks for your replies! I would have turned it in as well, without even thinking about it.

When my friend told me about it he told me by saying he had an ipod and wanted my help to show him how to use it, load it etc. He was excited about it, until I made him feel guilty about taking it in the first place, he ended up taking it back and giving it to the front desk. After I posted the original queery he also admitted that there was a car key and a membership card with it, so he could have easily been able to see whose it was which to me made it much worse that he thought he should take it for himself. He also admitted that if I didn't guilt him into it, he would not have returned it.

He is my best friend, and I will not judge him (that is someone elses job), but it does make one wonder about what makes people think they can do something like this. I guess our selfish nature sometimes just gets the best of us.

I agree oldrocker. I was once given $80 in stead of $40 for cash back at Target. I noticed just after I got in my car, took it right back in and handed it to the cashier. I could have used the extra $40, but he probably only makes $7 an hour and that would surely have come out of his check, if they didn't fire him for it.

Every kind thing we do comes back to us, as does each unkind thing. Personally I would rather be the recipient of the kind things coming back LOL!

I used to walk at the mall..found a man's billfold ..took it to the info booth..I did not even look in it but the gal from the booth called me the next day and told me how happy the man was to get his billfold back intact..she told me there was about $150.00 cash in it..I never even thought about keeping my find .....just today I returned an item to Kohl's (cost about $20.00) somehow the clerk was going to credit my card almost $60.00 ..til I called the error to his attention...I guess i'm workin on my list too

I think there are more honest people out there than you realize. It's the little bits of honesty that count, like the ipod example. Is everyone honest - no but i don't think we are outnumbered.

Always do the right thing.

When I was taking class to become a security officer (my 2nd job) one of the instructors gave us a break. Asked us to take a look at something on one of the tables, during the break.

When we came back, he asked how many people had seen the change he'd left on the back table. Me, I hadn't paid it any attention. He'd left it there, as a temptation.

What goes around, comes around, so always do the right thing.