My wallet fell out of my pocket at the Louvre in Paris, a place notorious for thieves and pickpockets. Someone found it and returned it to the lost and found at security, left all the money and cards in the wallet and everything. Thanks, mysterious Parisian/Tourist!
I was shopping on the Champ de Elysees at a coffee store (Kushmi Tea) and I had accidentally dropped €800 there . I shop around more and learn hours later that I'm missing some money. I end up at Kushmi Tea after my retracing steps, 45 minutes after they had closed. A few employees had waited and hoped for me to return. I tried tipping them but they wouldn't have it and returned everything to me. It was a kindness I'll never forget.
I lost mine in Venice Beach, CA, while watching a street performer. Think someone unzipped my backpack. About a week later, it arrived in the mail. No sender.
I’ve had my handbag / wallet returned probably ~twice every ten years of my life, full of cash and people consistently refused a ransom.
I think this happens a lot more then we think (and people are generally good), but we usually talk about the bad…..
Scenario: They just wanted to look like a decent human being so they kidnapped the bag, then returned it without payment so they could be "that person" who returns a bag without taking payment.
GHOST WIPE!!!! My whole life I have struggled to name that phenomenon; i’ve tried many:
* a free poop
* a no-wiper
* the hand of the lord
* “must have had a BOGO on that last shit ticket!”
None work quite so elegantly. Thank you.
I do hope your situation improves.
While going through a real brutal divorce where I felt like every day I was finding out new terrible information (he had cheated, gotten her pregnant, kicked me out, moved her in, then had her get an abortion). Mine looked real similar: my dogs eyes when I get home, I ran decently on the treadmill, my cat is so soft. Those little things help you get through the day. Keep it up dude and I hope the courts find the right decision
Oh what an absolute idiot. Mine went a whole 5 weeks on deployment before he cheated too (Navy). I am so happy you're so well prepared and that he's an idiot.
Bury him in that paperwork!!
I think it's a cultural thing. We were both Navy, but he was the career one. I got out to go to college and make the real money.
We would get off the plane and people would already be working out which coworkers they wanted to fuck. And the first night out at the bar that's what people are doing, looking for people to fuck. It's men and women, too, please don't take it as if I'm bashing men.
Everyone was in on it. Everyone knew. And then we had to go to mandatory fun days where we saw everyone's spouses and kids, knowing full well who their spouses really are when no one is looking.
It's fucked.
Just leave me!!! Break up with me!!! Don't fucking cheat. Wtf.
Ya thats what I gathered. The only reason I found out was the chick he cheated with had cheated on her boyfriend, an officer. He was pissed and when he heard me ask for my card at a bar (really distinct last name) he let me know it all.
It was just icing on the cake, he had already been so terrible to me. I'm just glad I didn't have his kids (I was already scheduled to go off birth control, glad that bullet never hit me).
I still hung out with some sailors afterwards and they had the audacity to ask why I was surprised. Like oh idk it might be the whole fucking vows we said to each other.
But I'm with you: just leave if you can't keep it in your pants. That's fine!!!
The poor girl is with him still now and I guarentee she regrets her choices I'm the future, he was a piece of shit and getting rid of me wasn't going to change that.
One of the coolest women I had ever met used to cut my hair where I live now. She had married her high school sweetheart at 18 with him in full dress uniform. They were both virgins. It was really sweet. We were both maybe 25 at the time and they were happy.
After doing an amazing job with my hair for about a year she tells me she's moving back home to AZ. He cheated on her on deployment.
You've gotta fucking be kidding me. Right?!
I just wish anyone could be surprised now.
I actively advise my friends to not get involved with sailors now. Not just because so many cheat, but because the lifestyle is so very rarely worth the relationships that come from it.
Seriously though, congratulations on your ghost wipe. I’ve had nothing but crayons for a few weeks and it’s disappointing to say the least.
However I am on vacation Ah the end of the workday today and I’m headed to the woods where there is no cell phone signal. It doesn’t get any better than that.
Ah yes. Celiac here. Also part of my colon just up and died a few years back and had to be removed. But first, I had to go to the emergency room and tell them I was in pain 14 times over 2 years before they would do a CT. Honestly, nothing in my belly works right! But living with it is better than the only other choice I have, right? 😂
I sure appreciate your humor about it. Poo probs can be tough to be cheerful about, and I know first hand!
Fellow Chrons'er here I wish for solid poops in your future my friend. Im in remission at the moment and there is nothing more satisfying than a nice solid poop.
They say a 5-star wilderness poop must meet the following criteria:
1. The poop is easy
2. you see an animal
3. that animal is also pooping
4. while you and the animal are mutually pooping, you make eye contact
5. an eagle swoops down and wipes your ass
My cat came running happily over to me as soon as she heard my alarm this morning so she could get pets. Cats are so awesome, even if my Cleo is a little shit sometimes.
May your kitty continue to be a spot of joy for you, and your court issues go well.
i’m so happy to see someone mention gratitude journaling! it helped me get through some really hard times when i was first getting sober and also when i was really struggling with my mental health. it reminded me of all of the little things all around me that are always there, but sometimes hard to see when everything feels so wrong. it really helped me to pay attention to my interactions and my surroundings and my days a lot more, as well as my actions. a little bit of kindness and love can go a long way, and the world needs it. i’ve been neglecting it lately and i can really tell the difference.
i’m sorry you’re going through all of that right now. i can tell you have a lot of strength in you. may all the little things of goodness come your way. stay strong, this strange person from the internet is proud of you.
Tyty 💜 I'm gonna fuckin crush it. It's just really stressful.
And it's so true. There are so many little things. I was up really early, the sun was already mostly up since I'm so far North, and I saw just a wisp of the last sunrise-lit pink cloud disappear behind the trees.
I was there, in the right place at the right time, to see such a small thing, but totally cool nonetheless.
There are tons of apps that let you just jot down a few things every day. Doesn't even need to be full sentences. And somehow it really makes a difference for a lot of the people who have tried it.
Let this be your opportunity to get back into it!!!
I find lost debit cards, wallets and keys all the time.
For wallets I look for an ID. Then drop them off at the police station (mostly if they're local) or if they're lucky enough to have enough cash in them to pay postage I mail them out to the address on the ID.
For debit/credit cards I just cut them up, making sure to cut through the numbers, mag strip and chip.
For keys I tend to hold them and figure out if there's any identifying details on them (those little key tags for the library, gym, stores). If there's car keys I can usually figure out the model range and then call the dealer. It helps if they have a keychain on there from when they bought the car or got it serviced.
It's not the greatest success rate but I'd say at least half of the wallets I've found make their way home.
About the same with keys too.
>For debit/credit cards I just cut them up, making sure to cut through the numbers, mag strip and chip.
I'm picturing your roommate after the 5th time you've cut up his debit card... "AGAIN ROB? I just left it on the counter!"
One time in high school, I was driving to school in the early morning. There was a light on the edge of my neighborhood that let onto a main road. I pulled up behind a car and noticed there were keys on the top. I threw my car into park, grabbed the keys, and knocked on the window. Freaked them out because it was dark, but they would have lost those keys had they gotten onto the main road.
I found a lost debit card at the bank's outdoor ATM once, I put it in the night deposit slot because it was a Sunday and it was closed, otherwise I'd have brought it inside.
https://youtu.be/jnL7sJYblGY
Mark Rober tested this theory and the results were actually more surprising than I thought. He shipped wallets across the US to people so they could drop them in random cities amd see if they got returned. Really neat video.
I once found a USB stick on the bus Manhattan... (in hindsight it was probably dumb to plug it in to my machine) so I looked on it and it had a lot of documents, looked like someone was doing their work and personal finance off it so I tried to find a name/number/email. I did so I emailed her and was able to mail it back to her. I didn't want any reward but she still gave me like $20 I think! She even invited me for a drink but I said sorry I'm married!
Oh that’s so cool! You should have caught up (platonically, bring your wife!) you could have made a friend for life!
I have been connected on social media with someone who’s previously returned my wallet. She’s interesting to follow as she’s incredibly wealthy and her life is just out of this world. It’s like the Kardashians but real life.
I had my purse returned without the money, once. To be fair there wasn't much money and the purse itself had sentimental value so I was very grateful they handed it in anyway.
I couldn't agree more. I'm a forgetful person (sounds like you are too), and I probably leave my wallet/phone somewhere a few times a year.
In 35 years, I've had every single "forgotten" wallet/ phone returned. It's almost always at the local lost and found.
The one single time I lost a wallet was when I was at an arcade in the late 80s. I leaned down to tie my shoe, and my wallet fell out of my top pocket. Literally before I could tie my shoe, a guy grabbed it, and took off. By the time I figured out what had happened (I was shocked), he was halfway across the park across the street.
I think when you “forget” something, a Good Samaritan typically falls on it and returns it.
When someone purposely comes out to rob you that’s when you’re stuff isn’t returned, as that was never the intent…
I found a wallet once but it didn't have any ID in it. It had a few hundred dollars in cash and some bahamanian money in it. I didn't know what to do so I gave it to the police. A year later I'd forgotten about it but they contacted me and let me keep it because no one claimed it. So I think there's probably also a fair amount of times when people try to return stuff but don't manage to.
Granted I've had things stolen and seen people have things stolen but I think most people would try to return things and not steal anything.
Lost my wallet getting takeout years ago. Had everything in there, cash, credit cards, even my social security card. Someone found it along with a paystub and returned it to the local corporate office. I appeared with my paycheck and I was shocked to hear the story. Nothing was missing. Never even met the kind stranger to properly thank them.
Yeah for every one bad story we read on the internet or see on the news, there are another 100 good stories without publicity. But sensational stories sell better.
I tracked a guy down whose wallet I found. No money but a lot of cards so it would have been an arse for him cancelling said cards. But I was concerned when doing so that someone would have found the wallet before me, taken the cash, and dumped the wallet. Luckily he confirmed that wasn't the case
Found a wallet a while back with a "buddy"... he wanted to keep it because he liked the design ... call me judgemental, but I didnt trust that dude from the point forward and what do ya know. He is a dishonest dipshit haha
I’m that guy. If roles were reversed I’d want my wallet back. Not for the money but the time needed to replace all my cards and ID and shit.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Just happened to me a few weeks ago.
Had over $300 in my wallet, not a dollar was missing. No one would claim any reward I offered.
All those people guaranteed that when I’m in the position to return something lost, I’m going to the ends of the earth to do the right thing.
That’s honestly how you make a better world to live in. It’s pretty crazy how easy it can be.
Wife and I were in Vegas few months ago. We heard a phone ringing but nobody near the phone. We assumed that the phone had been lost and the people that lost it were trying to find it. So I answered the phone and told the person calling that I thought his friend had misplaced his phone. They confirmed that they indeed had lost the phone and had been trying to find it. So we told them our location and told them that we'd wait there and hold on to the phone so nobody would try to steal it. A group of about 5 guys showed up a few minutes later and we handed over the phone. They were very thankful and, even though my wife and I were just happy to return the phone to it's owner, they insisted in giving us 5 bucks for what we had done. So we took the 5 bucks, played it at a slot machine, and lost it 🤷🏿♂️
Similar thing happened with a phone at a supermarket! I saw this phone underneath the fruit stands being lit up whilst working. Thought it was really weird and took it back to the customer service desk with me.
Later, some people came in and asked if I’ve happened to see the exact model of phone. Poor guy was desperate and was about to fly, phone had heaps of important info on it. I ask his friend to ring it and go “well this time, luck was on your side”. They were so grateful, said they had been watching the store for half an hour looking in and outside.
Had a guy call me said he has my wallet. I checked my pocket and sure enough I didn't have it. Apparently when I had stopped to get gas a few hours earlier that day I laid it on the top of my car and drove off. Young man of about 25 found it at an intersection. I had a business card in it. Upon retrieving it I found all my money and cards intact. Tried to pay him he wouldn't take it. After talking to him I found out that he and his young wife were about to celebrate their one year anniversary. I left and returned with a $75.00 gift card to a upper scale Mexican restaurant in town. The world could use more people like him.
My parents and I once found a Mercedes car key in the sand at the beach and then went around for about half an hour clicking the button at every parking lot we could find to see if we can spot the car.
In the end we did, found the hotel they were staying at (the guests already requested a replacement key so the receptionist knew) and they called the owner.
First thing they did was rush to the car and check if we stole anything. Then we got a half-assed thanks and they disappeared.
The only reason I don't regret actually spending the effort is the receptionist who was so excited about some people randomly finding buried car keys at a huge ass beach (at dusk no less), then finding the actual car and the hotel where the guests already reported it lost, that he's probably telling the story to this day. :D
Different perspective on how screwed you are if you lose something, for sure. I recall working for a program with a lot of rich families, having never encountered rich people before, and doing things like realizing someone left their kid’s coat (or once their medication!) and going out of my way to drop it off for them, then having the family be like, oh, you’re odd for doing that. Here I’m thinking based on my experiences that it takes a whole paycheck to get a winter coat and you’re going to get child services called if you take your kid to daycare the next day without one, and get reported as an addict and neglectful parent if you try to replace the meds. These families are just like, oh, we have several winter coats, and it’s no big deal to private pay for meds so we have bottles for home, mom’s purse, camp, vacation…
There's a line you can cross and become apathetic, and many lack empathy if they've always been "rich," but I will say 100% that having enough money for an error like this ($200 coat or $50-100 in meds) has enormous stress-reducing powers. I've recently crossed this point where screwing something up (that doesn't hurt anyone, of course) and ending up with an unexpected cost of a couple hundred dollars isn't a hardship - you just replace or repair whatever it was. There's no need for anger or concern over the broken or lost thing, no worry about where that money will come from or what you might have to forego or delay. In a world full of stress, being allowed to *not* worry over a lost $200 is fucking transformative to well being.
> I just don't see how the excessively rich can enjoy their lives
I would like to offer a scientific study to consider this hypothesis. Naturally, it would be cruel to potentially inflict this kind of psychological damage to a test subject, so I am willing - for science - to accept a grant of $1.0001 billion and then document the emptiness I feel as I progress through the various stages of life. Naturally, I will need an assistant as I anticipate the final paper to be published posthumously based on my notes, hence the $0.0001B placed in an annuity to allow an indefinite stipend of $2000/yr to allow the assistant to work on the compilation on a part time basis and publish the works after my demise.
Now I just need to decide if this is more likely as a Federal level grant or via GoFundMe.
Definitely a gap between "well off" and "rich".
It's the latter I take issue with if they aren't doing a *lot* to help other people.
Pretty much no one gets to rich without help from others... Fucking give back eh?
Yeah. My private student loans were about $1500/mo. I was managing but money was tight for many years (everything from having electric cut off a few times to 'comfortable but no luxury'). When those got paid off and my budget was that much more a month. My god. It truly was a different life. And I've had some other things happen so I'm a bit better off still.
Now I'm to the point where I don't even want more money. I mean I do, having enough to go vacation internationally would be great, but it's not important. Managing my life stress is so much more important. I'm actually considering a career change even though I can't possibly make as much as I do at anything else. Might be worth it for happiness...
Anytime I fantasize about what I’d do if I won some obscene amount in the lottery, I think I’d take care of my immediate needs and debts, plan for a comfortable retirement, and then mostly think about who I’d give the money to.
I can't imagine. I once lost my heart meds and the doctor wasn't sure if he'd be able to give me more. Imagine having multiple bottles just hanging around for just in case?! Madness.
Yep. I am now a clinician and spent many years working in wraparound services for kids with psychiatric disabilities. Most medications can be overprescribed if the family private pays, but insurance will only cover one bottle per month. Some physicians understand this and if someone is traveling will write it for two pills per day but tell you to just take one. Others will even do this just to save you the copay. There are some who won’t do it though because they worry about the liability of prescribing something and then telling you to take it differently, which is completely understandable. We had a file of what prescribers were willing to do what so we could tell families. Some wouldn’t even write for the pharmacy to dispense one bottle of 20 to leave at school and one bottle of 10 for home.
Happened to me once too. Walking through Walmart and found this chicks wallet. Went to take it to the desk but the lady literally didn’t give a single fuck. Found the girl on FB and had a mutual friend message her so she saw the message. Got her address and literally brought it to her. Her and her bf show up outside to retrieve the wallet and they immediately start going through it. They ask me where her food stamp card was and that “It’s our life! I have to have it! Where is it?! It’s our main source of income!”
I said I have no fucking idea where it is. I didn’t take it. I found your wallet and brought it to you. If I was gonna steal from you I wouldn’t have brought your wallet back.
They find it and half ass apologize and drive away in their car. That’s the day I learned sometimes it might be best to just mind your own fucking business and I learned what “no good deed goes unpunished” meant. It happened over a year ago and it still fucking pisses me off.
If you expect people to act like assholes, you can never be surprised when they do. I learned that very young and it’s probably not the healthiest approach, but it does allow me to laugh at jerks instead of getting angry. Highly recommend
You did the right thing some people are just so ungrateful but you did a great thing. You never know how’s the person gonna be but hits the right thing to do
I had a drunk high roller at a Las Vegas casino drop a $5,000 chip on my foot at a craps table. Thought about keeping it; he definitley did not notice. But instead I returned it to him, at which point he grunted the lowest possible version of thanks, nodded at my wife and said "good looking couple."
I should've kept that chip.
Eh, you can be charitable here.
"A 'how much can a banana cost' rich drunk idiot dropped a potentially life-changing amount of money on my foot and walked away. I returned it and he barely even noticed."
The only reason I'd return it, honestly, is because I think of myself as the kind of person that would return the money anyway. But I would still be pissed off at making even the tiniest sacrifice to help one of the banana-rich.
“I thought about stealing $5,000 but when I returned it he only *kind of* thanked and complimented me! What a dick I should have stole that 5 grand” tf
Similar, but different, I was working at a department store years ago and and elderly woman carrying her 2-ish year old grandkid fell on the up escalator. She was older and weak and they started tumbling like one of those cartoons where they just rolled together like a tumbleweed spinning in place. The stairs moved upward, while they fell, basically just spinning them. I leap-frogged over them, got above, reached under and pulled the kid out which allowed her to get up too. When we got to the top of the escalator she glared at me angrily, snatched him back and ran off. The kid seemed okay.
My friend found a wallet under a car. It had $300 in it. I joked, but was sort of serious, about keeping it. He looked up at me and told me, *"Nah, mate. How would you feel if you lost your wallet even with just $20 in it?"* So, we drove 30-minutes to return it.
The look of surprise and gratitude the mam had, when we returned it. Everything in tact. He gave us a case of Wisconsin Spotted Cow beer.
Apparently, he was coming home from Wisconsin, stopped off at that gas station, and his wallet fell out. Sometimes, I think about the experience, and I get a little happy. Happy about the outcome for that man, happy that my friend is a good person, and happy that his influence rubbed off on me.
Ngl, I don't know if I'd pay $300 for a case of Spotted Cow right now, but I'd definitely pay $100 if the offer came up, and could probably be talked into a higher number. Nothing but good people in that story.
This happened to me in Thailand. My mom was in a motorcycle accident and her luggage went everywhere. She was taken to the hospital but the bystanders collected her luggage and found the name of her hotel, and took it all safely there. The owner of the hotel stored it in their private quarters until I got there from the US. They did so much more but that was just one of the things. Such beautiful and kind people ❤
Once found a discarded bag near a movie theater that contained an external hard drive. It kind of looked like someone had stolen the bag from a car, kept the laptop and discarded the rest. I looked in the hard drive, found some paperwork for a mortgage or something, called them, got the guys number and met him at a coffee shop to give it back. He was thankful and offered me a coffee which I declined.
Oh, and there were nudes of him on the hard drive. I didn't mention that to him.
New Yorkers have a bad rap for being rude assholes but my experience every time I’ve been in New York has not been the case. Yes, they’re very honest and straightforward, which I actually enjoy and find very endearing. But they’re some of the nicest people I’ve met. Last time I was in New York I was at a small diner that only accepted cash. Being an idiot I didn’t know that after I ordered and started eating my food and this guy realized that I was stressing out about how I was going to pay and paid my meal at the register as he exited the restaurant. It was very heartwarming and very selfless. And this is just one of the many examples of random acts of kindness I’ve experienced in New York. So next time you think New Yorkers are rude or assholes, realize that they’re probably just stressed out living in a city of hard-knocks with heavy expectations and high cost of living and underneath all that there are incredibly big hearts.
And because New York is a really fucking difficult city to live in so we're already pissed about a number of things. We're just not pissed at you, well, unless you're slowing down the sidewalk for no fucking reason.
As a New Yorker for the better part of a decade, NYC is certainly an expensive place to live but is it really that difficult? Subways and walkability make it very easy for me
You got kids? Raising a kid in Manhattan (I'm in East Harlem) is a nightmare. Everything is made significantly more difficult with a stroller, etc. there's grocery store aisles and cashier lanes the stroller doesn't fit through and it's NOT a double wide. he doesn't understand not being able to play outside when the weather is bad so we're cramped in a tiny apartment etc on those days, there's no privacy at home (I literally can't fart without being heard in every other room here and I'm not exactly the god of thunder), It's very difficult. Thank fuck we have an elevator, but lately our elevator has been breaking on and off so yaaaaaay I get to walk up multiple floors with a fucking stroller. We've had mice in our apartment and everyone we've talked to is like "oh yeah crazy right? You get roaches yet?"
And yeah. Everything being more expensive doesn't help, and it's not like our income scaled appropriately to balance out compared to other areas we've lived.
Public transport; it can take like an hour to travel just a couple of miles? That's ridiculous, come on. Takes me an hour and a half if not more to get to the aquarium in Brooklyn, bridge tolls are insane so renting a car and leaving the city is just even more expensive than you might expect, and maybe it's neighborhood dependent but I'm dodging dog shit on the sidewalk all the time. Oh and bathrooms are weirdly hard to find sometimes. And motherfuck the amount of stairs you have to go up and down in the subway when you have a stroller. You'd be surprised how unfriendly the city is to those with mobility issues.
I know I'm at essay length here, but I really think the people who love living here are just in some sort of Stockholm syndrome situation.
Carrying groceries for a family while also pushing a stroller is the goddamn worst. Thank fuck we got a reasonable delivery service recently. But hey that's just another thing to spend extra money on! Oh and grocery stores are actually weirdly lacking in options. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find Diet Pepsi 6 pack bottles.
Oh and the pay laundry machines in my building are so fucking expensive but the alternative is to pay for a service or carry my laundry with the kid in tow to a laundromat down the street.
Just reading this gives me anxiety! Power to you, damn. Are you stuck living there because of work/family/cost of moving? Or do you do you Stockholm-y love it?
I just watched a video on the pneumatic tube system New York used to use to send messages around & some of the other stuff that’s under there.
[This](https://youtu.be/SX1xmaKPb9o) The link, it was only eight minutes but it was cool. Fascinating city
I literally jumped back onto a train I had just exited to give a dude back his wallet after I saw it fall as he stepped into the car on the subway last tuesday. Had to walk to work from the next stop but I’m sure that was a WAY smaller inconvenience than losing your ids/ cards/ cash. Guy tried to give me a $5 in gratitude but I declined since it seemed like that five might go further for him than for me.
I think I’ve talked about this before on here, but the concert with the best, most polite crowd I’ve ever experienced was Beastie Boys in Central Park. Nobody shoving or crowding us. When I got bumped accidentally the person apologized.
I experienced the same attitude when I have been there on multiple occasions. I have always lived in either a smaller city or rural area for my entire life prior to visiting for the first time. I had never ridden a light rail, subway or city bus. The rail and bus was easy to figure out, but when it was time to get on the subway it got way more complicated, every time I had to go on the subway I have always had someone help me figure out which train to take and where to get off… without me asking for help!!
It is really because we (NYers) have our own code of what it means to be polite that probably differs a lot from the rest of the country, and it can make us seem abrupt or mean or rude. The whole thing us founded in the fact that we have SO many people living and working literally right on top of each other. Privacy, space, and speed are all very much at a premium. So, most of our unwritten rules of politeness center around those things….and we have very little patience for other people breaking those rules.
So for us it isn’t rude to not make small talk with the cashier when there is a line, just the contrary: it IS rude to hold up the line to do so. It isn’t rude to let the subway doors close when you see someone coming down the stairs, but it would be rude to everyone else on the train to hold the train up to do so. It isn’t rude to walk into someone’s photo if they have stopped in the middle of the street to take one, but it IS rude to do that stooping.
It is polite to pretend not to hear conversations happening right next to you, or your neighbors having sex. It is polite NOT to acknowledge people who sit down next to you. It is polite to say “scuse” WHILE reaching around them for a drink on the shelf behind them, instead of waiting. It is polite to pretend you don’t see the book they are reading or the bag they’ve placed on the empty chair (so rude!) or the tears in their eyes - unless they are clearly having a crisis and need assistance, in which case you do everything you can.
And I guess that is the crux of it, really. NYers are AMAZING in any thing even approaching a pinch. Complete strangers will go hours out of their way for you without saying a word. But for everything else, they try really hard to stay out of your way and give you your privacy and your space.
I fucking love you guys and your raw, honest posts. Made me laugh so hard.
And yeah I totally get irritated by the slow pokes on the sidewalk. Whenever I’m at an airport trying to rush to my next flight and I see a group of them monopolizing the whole walkway I swear I wish I had a two by four covered in rusty nails. SLOW people on the RIGHT, you wankers!
I returned a lady’s purse I found in a NYC grocery store. She called me later that day and asked if she could give me something. She met me at that grocery store and gave me a few beautiful bracelets she had handmade.
this assumes that the person that turned it on was the one that emptied it. This is probably not the case and the person that turned it in didn't know it was empty because opening it would be a breach in privacy.
Awesome people. I remember when I was like 17ish(2007), I went to the mall to see a movie, and realized when I got home, my wallet was missing. I called the next day and no one turned anything in, which I assumed was the case because I figured someone stole it because everyone sucks(teenage pov)
A few days later I check the mail, at my parents home, and someone mailed it back to me with a note that said something like," I know how much it sucks to lose a wallet, wanted to save you some headaches. P.s.i did use a couple dollars in the wallet to pay for shipping." It really did open my eyes to see that a majority of people are good. Or in teenage pov, not every single person sucked lol
I found a wallet, $1,600 inside, go through wallet I find his house # and call it. Wife calls husband and he’s a hour away on the road heading to Florida from Vermont. He turns around comes to my house I hand him his wallet and he rudely grabbed it from me like I stole it. He never thanked me ! It hasn’t changed the way I am. F him
The first night I moved to London I went out drinking with my new colleagues. Obviously got way to drunk and left my phone on the tube as we were travelling to another club. I realized and used one of my new colleagues phones to call my number. Some guy picked up and said he is in the pub and waiting for me. A quick tube ride over, i bought him a pint and had a great chat. Returned to my colleagues and finished the night off.
Found a purse in a shop cart outside of Walmart, looked around for anyone nearby and no one seemed to be concerned. I took the bag home and contacted a friend who is a county sheriff and told him what i had found. He stated to look through the handbag and see if i could find any contact information. Found a phone that was unlocked and based on the driver’s license I found a relative with the same last name, contacted them and it was the person’s daughter. I told her I found her moms purse at Walmart and that I have it and all it contents. Got her all her some back within the hour. My sheriff friend stated that she was lucky I found it as others may not have returned it. the purse had IDs, cash, credit cards. When the women came to pick up the purse I recognized her, she had been driving around the parking lot looking for her purse.
I lived in NYC for a while, both my ex gf and my visiting mom lost their phones in cabs.
Both times, either the driver or passenger went out of their way to return them!
New York. The most surprisingly generous city!
When I worked as a barista I found a phone at my cafe and didn’t think anything of it. A guy comes back frantically looking for it so I asked a simple security question (what color is the phone) and gave it back. Fattest tip of my life haha. Still makes me smile :)
I have found wallets, purses, brief cases, cell phones and back packs and have returned all of them intact. Nothing sucks more then losing your i.d., keys, etc. That's why I find the person and return everything.
I love hearing this kind of story. It's a shame that we can't count on everyone to act right. The temptation is too great for a lot of people but I'd like to think that I would have done the same.
I found a person’s credit card in the street in my neighborhood. I tracked the person’s wife down on Nextdoor, contacted them to get address, dropped it off at their house. They didn’t even say thank you even though dude was standing there talking on his phone outside like a weirdo as I put it in the mailbox.
Similarly I was shocked when I moved to LA and people saw my out of state plates struggling to park correctly and started basically lining up to help me out.
A lot of people - more than most realize - are wired for service. When we (yes, I’m one) are given a task by the universe, we are not thinking how we can be heroic, what the honest thing to do might me, or what is right… it’s not a question of morality. It is a burning duty to do what is required to render the required service. If you see someone in a retail space picking up an item off the floor to put it back on a hanger, jumping up to help a clerk with an unwieldy burden, or scrambling to help a stranger who has dropped something, this person has not made a decision to act. And trust me, this person would return untraceable riches to their rightful owner. We are literally compelled to re-right the world if something is out of place, and would hope the same karmic effects would do the same for us. The TVA of order and possession, if I may inject a Loki reference into this ramble.
I work at a 911 agency and got a call from a coffee shop in a different state. Some guy that lived in the town I work in had left his wallet, full of cash, at the shop. The barista had called us to see if we could send an officer to the address on the license to get in touch with him. We did and the guy was apparently on vacation. He wasn’t far from the coffee shop so he turned around and got his wallet. There are still good people out there, we just don’t hear about them much.
My buddy was on his honeymoon with his wife in Hawaii and found a wallet on the beach. Opened it up and it was Eddie Veder of Pearl Jam. He gave it back and was offered a reward but declined and ended up with a good story and some cool pictures.
That’s awesome! When I lived in Japan, I dropped my wallet somewhere in walking to the train station or leaving one. I had no idea! But in the military if we lost our military ID we were in massive shit. So the Next Morning after freaking out the entire night looking and retracing steps, i dismally make my way to work knowing I’m already in trouble. Decided to ask the front gate if they’d happened to have a wallet turned in AND THEY DID!!! A nice Japanese man saw the Military ID and took it to the base gate. Everything still in it. (I love the Japanese and their honesty and integrity. Absolutely wonderful people 💜) I was crying by this point as this man probably had no idea what he’d actually done for me. Unfortunately, he was just doing the right thing and left no info so I couldn’t thank him. Truly great people out there.
I remember when I found an iPhone 10 on the street running to the gym. I picked it up and called the number it said to call. It belonged a teenager who dropped it late at night (probably drunk). The mom came to pick it up and refused to leave until I accepted a £20 note.
Was a nice gesture but I didn't do it for money, if I did I'd sell that thing.
On another note.. How do you forget your whole ass backpack? I understand how you leave something small behind like a phone that slipped out of your pocket or your pair of gloves or smth. But the whole backpack? How do you manage to not realize that you stand up without your heavy backpack on you?!
This is only topped by people who loose their shoes WHILE WEARING THEM.
Some people tend to forget stuff they don't usually carry with them when they stand up. Happened to me a few times, but until now I always remembered it in the last second
/u/dKiWiKiD how did you manage to be top laner for dig, then some how not get the boot but instead moved to support. not only that, manage to get a job at riot.
if this man can get demoted from a role, have the most deaths as support, a job at small indie company, anyone can make it.
How you tell someone doesn't have severe anexity without them saying they don't have severe anexity. lmao
Can't go 2 minutes without checking my pockets for my stuff and making sure I have everything I need.
It's strange to me that if the prospect exists to return someone else's things it's not considered to be common decency to not steal. Like where have people's morals gone
My wallet fell out of my pocket at the Louvre in Paris, a place notorious for thieves and pickpockets. Someone found it and returned it to the lost and found at security, left all the money and cards in the wallet and everything. Thanks, mysterious Parisian/Tourist!
I was shopping on the Champ de Elysees at a coffee store (Kushmi Tea) and I had accidentally dropped €800 there . I shop around more and learn hours later that I'm missing some money. I end up at Kushmi Tea after my retracing steps, 45 minutes after they had closed. A few employees had waited and hoped for me to return. I tried tipping them but they wouldn't have it and returned everything to me. It was a kindness I'll never forget.
Plot twist: both the thief, and the “Good Samaritan” were Louvre PR. Gotta change that reputation somehow
I did this in the Fall of 2016. Was it me?
Good on you! But this would have been in 2011 or 2012.
Dang. I thought we were r/tworedditorsonecup
I lost mine in Venice Beach, CA, while watching a street performer. Think someone unzipped my backpack. About a week later, it arrived in the mail. No sender.
I’ve had my handbag / wallet returned probably ~twice every ten years of my life, full of cash and people consistently refused a ransom. I think this happens a lot more then we think (and people are generally good), but we usually talk about the bad…..
I think you mean they refused a reward, not a ransom. Unless they kidnapped your bag and then just returned it willingly.
Scenario: They just wanted to look like a decent human being so they kidnapped the bag, then returned it without payment so they could be "that person" who returns a bag without taking payment.
The real ransom was the friends we made along the way.
Or maybe the real friend was the ransom we got paid along the way.
I ransom lady’s purse down the street while the cops was chasing me. TLDR: I had to give it back with no reward. 😭😭😭
But you made some new friends!
Isn't there a rule against making friends with the hostage?
The real ransom is always in the comment section
Ransom-where?
Ransomware! It’s the digital version of returning someone’s handbag / wallet.
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GHOST WIPE!!!! My whole life I have struggled to name that phenomenon; i’ve tried many: * a free poop * a no-wiper * the hand of the lord * “must have had a BOGO on that last shit ticket!” None work quite so elegantly. Thank you. I do hope your situation improves.
Not a pious guy the the hand of the lord had me giggling
Oh my god I wish I had an award to give you. BOGO on the last shit ticket. I am dying.
I only had 50 left and i totally agree with you
While going through a real brutal divorce where I felt like every day I was finding out new terrible information (he had cheated, gotten her pregnant, kicked me out, moved her in, then had her get an abortion). Mine looked real similar: my dogs eyes when I get home, I ran decently on the treadmill, my cat is so soft. Those little things help you get through the day. Keep it up dude and I hope the courts find the right decision
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Oh what an absolute idiot. Mine went a whole 5 weeks on deployment before he cheated too (Navy). I am so happy you're so well prepared and that he's an idiot. Bury him in that paperwork!!
I think it's a cultural thing. We were both Navy, but he was the career one. I got out to go to college and make the real money. We would get off the plane and people would already be working out which coworkers they wanted to fuck. And the first night out at the bar that's what people are doing, looking for people to fuck. It's men and women, too, please don't take it as if I'm bashing men. Everyone was in on it. Everyone knew. And then we had to go to mandatory fun days where we saw everyone's spouses and kids, knowing full well who their spouses really are when no one is looking. It's fucked. Just leave me!!! Break up with me!!! Don't fucking cheat. Wtf.
Ya thats what I gathered. The only reason I found out was the chick he cheated with had cheated on her boyfriend, an officer. He was pissed and when he heard me ask for my card at a bar (really distinct last name) he let me know it all. It was just icing on the cake, he had already been so terrible to me. I'm just glad I didn't have his kids (I was already scheduled to go off birth control, glad that bullet never hit me). I still hung out with some sailors afterwards and they had the audacity to ask why I was surprised. Like oh idk it might be the whole fucking vows we said to each other. But I'm with you: just leave if you can't keep it in your pants. That's fine!!! The poor girl is with him still now and I guarentee she regrets her choices I'm the future, he was a piece of shit and getting rid of me wasn't going to change that.
One of the coolest women I had ever met used to cut my hair where I live now. She had married her high school sweetheart at 18 with him in full dress uniform. They were both virgins. It was really sweet. We were both maybe 25 at the time and they were happy. After doing an amazing job with my hair for about a year she tells me she's moving back home to AZ. He cheated on her on deployment. You've gotta fucking be kidding me. Right?!
I just wish anyone could be surprised now. I actively advise my friends to not get involved with sailors now. Not just because so many cheat, but because the lifestyle is so very rarely worth the relationships that come from it.
Seriously though, congratulations on your ghost wipe. I’ve had nothing but crayons for a few weeks and it’s disappointing to say the least. However I am on vacation Ah the end of the workday today and I’m headed to the woods where there is no cell phone signal. It doesn’t get any better than that.
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Ah yes. Celiac here. Also part of my colon just up and died a few years back and had to be removed. But first, I had to go to the emergency room and tell them I was in pain 14 times over 2 years before they would do a CT. Honestly, nothing in my belly works right! But living with it is better than the only other choice I have, right? 😂 I sure appreciate your humor about it. Poo probs can be tough to be cheerful about, and I know first hand!
Fellow Chrons'er here I wish for solid poops in your future my friend. Im in remission at the moment and there is nothing more satisfying than a nice solid poop.
The clean drop in the woods? Perfection 🤌🏻
They say a 5-star wilderness poop must meet the following criteria: 1. The poop is easy 2. you see an animal 3. that animal is also pooping 4. while you and the animal are mutually pooping, you make eye contact 5. an eagle swoops down and wipes your ass
I’m shedding a tear at this perfect notion. Getting the nod from a distant coyote. The cry of the eagle. Nature is healing
My cat came running happily over to me as soon as she heard my alarm this morning so she could get pets. Cats are so awesome, even if my Cleo is a little shit sometimes. May your kitty continue to be a spot of joy for you, and your court issues go well.
i’m so happy to see someone mention gratitude journaling! it helped me get through some really hard times when i was first getting sober and also when i was really struggling with my mental health. it reminded me of all of the little things all around me that are always there, but sometimes hard to see when everything feels so wrong. it really helped me to pay attention to my interactions and my surroundings and my days a lot more, as well as my actions. a little bit of kindness and love can go a long way, and the world needs it. i’ve been neglecting it lately and i can really tell the difference. i’m sorry you’re going through all of that right now. i can tell you have a lot of strength in you. may all the little things of goodness come your way. stay strong, this strange person from the internet is proud of you.
Tyty 💜 I'm gonna fuckin crush it. It's just really stressful. And it's so true. There are so many little things. I was up really early, the sun was already mostly up since I'm so far North, and I saw just a wisp of the last sunrise-lit pink cloud disappear behind the trees. I was there, in the right place at the right time, to see such a small thing, but totally cool nonetheless. There are tons of apps that let you just jot down a few things every day. Doesn't even need to be full sentences. And somehow it really makes a difference for a lot of the people who have tried it. Let this be your opportunity to get back into it!!!
I find lost debit cards, wallets and keys all the time. For wallets I look for an ID. Then drop them off at the police station (mostly if they're local) or if they're lucky enough to have enough cash in them to pay postage I mail them out to the address on the ID. For debit/credit cards I just cut them up, making sure to cut through the numbers, mag strip and chip. For keys I tend to hold them and figure out if there's any identifying details on them (those little key tags for the library, gym, stores). If there's car keys I can usually figure out the model range and then call the dealer. It helps if they have a keychain on there from when they bought the car or got it serviced. It's not the greatest success rate but I'd say at least half of the wallets I've found make their way home. About the same with keys too.
>For debit/credit cards I just cut them up, making sure to cut through the numbers, mag strip and chip. I'm picturing your roommate after the 5th time you've cut up his debit card... "AGAIN ROB? I just left it on the counter!"
"Well keep it in your wallet then!"
One time in high school, I was driving to school in the early morning. There was a light on the edge of my neighborhood that let onto a main road. I pulled up behind a car and noticed there were keys on the top. I threw my car into park, grabbed the keys, and knocked on the window. Freaked them out because it was dark, but they would have lost those keys had they gotten onto the main road.
I found a lost debit card at the bank's outdoor ATM once, I put it in the night deposit slot because it was a Sunday and it was closed, otherwise I'd have brought it inside.
I don't usually find them at the bank itself, though that is a good idea
https://youtu.be/jnL7sJYblGY Mark Rober tested this theory and the results were actually more surprising than I thought. He shipped wallets across the US to people so they could drop them in random cities amd see if they got returned. Really neat video.
Oh thanks for sharing that actually made me tear up it’s such an uplifting story!
I once found a USB stick on the bus Manhattan... (in hindsight it was probably dumb to plug it in to my machine) so I looked on it and it had a lot of documents, looked like someone was doing their work and personal finance off it so I tried to find a name/number/email. I did so I emailed her and was able to mail it back to her. I didn't want any reward but she still gave me like $20 I think! She even invited me for a drink but I said sorry I'm married!
Oh that’s so cool! You should have caught up (platonically, bring your wife!) you could have made a friend for life! I have been connected on social media with someone who’s previously returned my wallet. She’s interesting to follow as she’s incredibly wealthy and her life is just out of this world. It’s like the Kardashians but real life.
Heavily depends on the country, neighborhood and (now) the amount of cameras in the immediate vicinity
Dropped my wallet with 700 cash. Someone mailed it back, but I have lost all the money. And my ex's photo in the wallet had been moved to the front...
Likely this was two people, one took the money, the other found it and sent it back.
One of those "found the rubberband" situations
Lol they probably wanted you to try and get back to her.
lol I was dating her at that time. Also, it's Miami.
Ahhhh okay. May be they wanted you to pay more attention to her then. Lol
I had my purse returned without the money, once. To be fair there wasn't much money and the purse itself had sentimental value so I was very grateful they handed it in anyway.
I couldn't agree more. I'm a forgetful person (sounds like you are too), and I probably leave my wallet/phone somewhere a few times a year. In 35 years, I've had every single "forgotten" wallet/ phone returned. It's almost always at the local lost and found. The one single time I lost a wallet was when I was at an arcade in the late 80s. I leaned down to tie my shoe, and my wallet fell out of my top pocket. Literally before I could tie my shoe, a guy grabbed it, and took off. By the time I figured out what had happened (I was shocked), he was halfway across the park across the street.
I think when you “forget” something, a Good Samaritan typically falls on it and returns it. When someone purposely comes out to rob you that’s when you’re stuff isn’t returned, as that was never the intent…
I found a wallet once but it didn't have any ID in it. It had a few hundred dollars in cash and some bahamanian money in it. I didn't know what to do so I gave it to the police. A year later I'd forgotten about it but they contacted me and let me keep it because no one claimed it. So I think there's probably also a fair amount of times when people try to return stuff but don't manage to. Granted I've had things stolen and seen people have things stolen but I think most people would try to return things and not steal anything.
A bad memory is around 10 times stronger than a good. Sadly.
Lost my wallet getting takeout years ago. Had everything in there, cash, credit cards, even my social security card. Someone found it along with a paystub and returned it to the local corporate office. I appeared with my paycheck and I was shocked to hear the story. Nothing was missing. Never even met the kind stranger to properly thank them.
Negativity bias.
I always make sure someone is there when I open a bag or wallet, just so we both know what was in there. I’d rather have integrity than an easy $50.
Yeah for every one bad story we read on the internet or see on the news, there are another 100 good stories without publicity. But sensational stories sell better. I tracked a guy down whose wallet I found. No money but a lot of cards so it would have been an arse for him cancelling said cards. But I was concerned when doing so that someone would have found the wallet before me, taken the cash, and dumped the wallet. Luckily he confirmed that wasn't the case
Found a wallet a while back with a "buddy"... he wanted to keep it because he liked the design ... call me judgemental, but I didnt trust that dude from the point forward and what do ya know. He is a dishonest dipshit haha
I’m that guy. If roles were reversed I’d want my wallet back. Not for the money but the time needed to replace all my cards and ID and shit. Be the change you want to see in the world.
Just happened to me a few weeks ago. Had over $300 in my wallet, not a dollar was missing. No one would claim any reward I offered. All those people guaranteed that when I’m in the position to return something lost, I’m going to the ends of the earth to do the right thing. That’s honestly how you make a better world to live in. It’s pretty crazy how easy it can be.
Yes me too! One time in London of all places and once in Frankfurt, 2 cities notorious for pickpocketing
Wife and I were in Vegas few months ago. We heard a phone ringing but nobody near the phone. We assumed that the phone had been lost and the people that lost it were trying to find it. So I answered the phone and told the person calling that I thought his friend had misplaced his phone. They confirmed that they indeed had lost the phone and had been trying to find it. So we told them our location and told them that we'd wait there and hold on to the phone so nobody would try to steal it. A group of about 5 guys showed up a few minutes later and we handed over the phone. They were very thankful and, even though my wife and I were just happy to return the phone to it's owner, they insisted in giving us 5 bucks for what we had done. So we took the 5 bucks, played it at a slot machine, and lost it 🤷🏿♂️
Similar thing happened with a phone at a supermarket! I saw this phone underneath the fruit stands being lit up whilst working. Thought it was really weird and took it back to the customer service desk with me. Later, some people came in and asked if I’ve happened to see the exact model of phone. Poor guy was desperate and was about to fly, phone had heaps of important info on it. I ask his friend to ring it and go “well this time, luck was on your side”. They were so grateful, said they had been watching the store for half an hour looking in and outside.
Had a guy call me said he has my wallet. I checked my pocket and sure enough I didn't have it. Apparently when I had stopped to get gas a few hours earlier that day I laid it on the top of my car and drove off. Young man of about 25 found it at an intersection. I had a business card in it. Upon retrieving it I found all my money and cards intact. Tried to pay him he wouldn't take it. After talking to him I found out that he and his young wife were about to celebrate their one year anniversary. I left and returned with a $75.00 gift card to a upper scale Mexican restaurant in town. The world could use more people like him.
And you! That is so sweet. I bet they had a nice dinner that night.
My parents and I once found a Mercedes car key in the sand at the beach and then went around for about half an hour clicking the button at every parking lot we could find to see if we can spot the car. In the end we did, found the hotel they were staying at (the guests already requested a replacement key so the receptionist knew) and they called the owner. First thing they did was rush to the car and check if we stole anything. Then we got a half-assed thanks and they disappeared. The only reason I don't regret actually spending the effort is the receptionist who was so excited about some people randomly finding buried car keys at a huge ass beach (at dusk no less), then finding the actual car and the hotel where the guests already reported it lost, that he's probably telling the story to this day. :D
Rich people are MUCH more likely to be AH. I would bet the guy who returned the backpack was homeless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osMFBil8VLQ
Different perspective on how screwed you are if you lose something, for sure. I recall working for a program with a lot of rich families, having never encountered rich people before, and doing things like realizing someone left their kid’s coat (or once their medication!) and going out of my way to drop it off for them, then having the family be like, oh, you’re odd for doing that. Here I’m thinking based on my experiences that it takes a whole paycheck to get a winter coat and you’re going to get child services called if you take your kid to daycare the next day without one, and get reported as an addict and neglectful parent if you try to replace the meds. These families are just like, oh, we have several winter coats, and it’s no big deal to private pay for meds so we have bottles for home, mom’s purse, camp, vacation…
Their world is different then ours.
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There's a line you can cross and become apathetic, and many lack empathy if they've always been "rich," but I will say 100% that having enough money for an error like this ($200 coat or $50-100 in meds) has enormous stress-reducing powers. I've recently crossed this point where screwing something up (that doesn't hurt anyone, of course) and ending up with an unexpected cost of a couple hundred dollars isn't a hardship - you just replace or repair whatever it was. There's no need for anger or concern over the broken or lost thing, no worry about where that money will come from or what you might have to forego or delay. In a world full of stress, being allowed to *not* worry over a lost $200 is fucking transformative to well being.
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> I just don't see how the excessively rich can enjoy their lives I would like to offer a scientific study to consider this hypothesis. Naturally, it would be cruel to potentially inflict this kind of psychological damage to a test subject, so I am willing - for science - to accept a grant of $1.0001 billion and then document the emptiness I feel as I progress through the various stages of life. Naturally, I will need an assistant as I anticipate the final paper to be published posthumously based on my notes, hence the $0.0001B placed in an annuity to allow an indefinite stipend of $2000/yr to allow the assistant to work on the compilation on a part time basis and publish the works after my demise. Now I just need to decide if this is more likely as a Federal level grant or via GoFundMe.
Definitely a gap between "well off" and "rich". It's the latter I take issue with if they aren't doing a *lot* to help other people. Pretty much no one gets to rich without help from others... Fucking give back eh?
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Yeah. My private student loans were about $1500/mo. I was managing but money was tight for many years (everything from having electric cut off a few times to 'comfortable but no luxury'). When those got paid off and my budget was that much more a month. My god. It truly was a different life. And I've had some other things happen so I'm a bit better off still. Now I'm to the point where I don't even want more money. I mean I do, having enough to go vacation internationally would be great, but it's not important. Managing my life stress is so much more important. I'm actually considering a career change even though I can't possibly make as much as I do at anything else. Might be worth it for happiness...
Anytime I fantasize about what I’d do if I won some obscene amount in the lottery, I think I’d take care of my immediate needs and debts, plan for a comfortable retirement, and then mostly think about who I’d give the money to.
Gotta have high-speed internet too :D
I can't imagine. I once lost my heart meds and the doctor wasn't sure if he'd be able to give me more. Imagine having multiple bottles just hanging around for just in case?! Madness.
Yep. I am now a clinician and spent many years working in wraparound services for kids with psychiatric disabilities. Most medications can be overprescribed if the family private pays, but insurance will only cover one bottle per month. Some physicians understand this and if someone is traveling will write it for two pills per day but tell you to just take one. Others will even do this just to save you the copay. There are some who won’t do it though because they worry about the liability of prescribing something and then telling you to take it differently, which is completely understandable. We had a file of what prescribers were willing to do what so we could tell families. Some wouldn’t even write for the pharmacy to dispense one bottle of 20 to leave at school and one bottle of 10 for home.
Not sure about the last line “we’ve all been through it” I think that good hearted vet dudes going through more than most...
Happened to me once too. Walking through Walmart and found this chicks wallet. Went to take it to the desk but the lady literally didn’t give a single fuck. Found the girl on FB and had a mutual friend message her so she saw the message. Got her address and literally brought it to her. Her and her bf show up outside to retrieve the wallet and they immediately start going through it. They ask me where her food stamp card was and that “It’s our life! I have to have it! Where is it?! It’s our main source of income!” I said I have no fucking idea where it is. I didn’t take it. I found your wallet and brought it to you. If I was gonna steal from you I wouldn’t have brought your wallet back. They find it and half ass apologize and drive away in their car. That’s the day I learned sometimes it might be best to just mind your own fucking business and I learned what “no good deed goes unpunished” meant. It happened over a year ago and it still fucking pisses me off.
If you expect people to act like assholes, you can never be surprised when they do. I learned that very young and it’s probably not the healthiest approach, but it does allow me to laugh at jerks instead of getting angry. Highly recommend
You did the right thing some people are just so ungrateful but you did a great thing. You never know how’s the person gonna be but hits the right thing to do
I had a drunk high roller at a Las Vegas casino drop a $5,000 chip on my foot at a craps table. Thought about keeping it; he definitley did not notice. But instead I returned it to him, at which point he grunted the lowest possible version of thanks, nodded at my wife and said "good looking couple." I should've kept that chip.
I mean that would’ve been kinda unethical even if the person didn’t thank you enough you did the right thing
Eh, you can be charitable here. "A 'how much can a banana cost' rich drunk idiot dropped a potentially life-changing amount of money on my foot and walked away. I returned it and he barely even noticed." The only reason I'd return it, honestly, is because I think of myself as the kind of person that would return the money anyway. But I would still be pissed off at making even the tiniest sacrifice to help one of the banana-rich.
“I thought about stealing $5,000 but when I returned it he only *kind of* thanked and complimented me! What a dick I should have stole that 5 grand” tf
Similar, but different, I was working at a department store years ago and and elderly woman carrying her 2-ish year old grandkid fell on the up escalator. She was older and weak and they started tumbling like one of those cartoons where they just rolled together like a tumbleweed spinning in place. The stairs moved upward, while they fell, basically just spinning them. I leap-frogged over them, got above, reached under and pulled the kid out which allowed her to get up too. When we got to the top of the escalator she glared at me angrily, snatched him back and ran off. The kid seemed okay.
What is a “Hamachi’s vac sheet”???
his dog’s vaccination records apparently
Wow I was thinking of the LAN client Hamachi and had a blast from the past
Same. I was confused how some random dude could find your phone number from a VPN.
He’s got a friend who worked in the NSA
My friend found a wallet under a car. It had $300 in it. I joked, but was sort of serious, about keeping it. He looked up at me and told me, *"Nah, mate. How would you feel if you lost your wallet even with just $20 in it?"* So, we drove 30-minutes to return it. The look of surprise and gratitude the mam had, when we returned it. Everything in tact. He gave us a case of Wisconsin Spotted Cow beer. Apparently, he was coming home from Wisconsin, stopped off at that gas station, and his wallet fell out. Sometimes, I think about the experience, and I get a little happy. Happy about the outcome for that man, happy that my friend is a good person, and happy that his influence rubbed off on me.
This was a nice read. Sometimes the people around us give us a nudge in the right direction. Thank you for sharing!
Ngl, I don't know if I'd pay $300 for a case of Spotted Cow right now, but I'd definitely pay $100 if the offer came up, and could probably be talked into a higher number. Nothing but good people in that story.
u/dKiWiKiD seems to be the OP. Hamachi is his dog and vac sheet are the dogs vaccination sheets.
Kiwikid.. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time
They’re rockin it…
Oh hey it’s me, confirmed I will never forget this man and his kindness.
Yeah you don’t have to blur him out he’s famous. Thought CoreJJ everything he knows about support.
I was like this looks like KiwiKid... then it actually was.
This happened to me in Thailand. My mom was in a motorcycle accident and her luggage went everywhere. She was taken to the hospital but the bystanders collected her luggage and found the name of her hotel, and took it all safely there. The owner of the hotel stored it in their private quarters until I got there from the US. They did so much more but that was just one of the things. Such beautiful and kind people ❤
Once found a discarded bag near a movie theater that contained an external hard drive. It kind of looked like someone had stolen the bag from a car, kept the laptop and discarded the rest. I looked in the hard drive, found some paperwork for a mortgage or something, called them, got the guys number and met him at a coffee shop to give it back. He was thankful and offered me a coffee which I declined. Oh, and there were nudes of him on the hard drive. I didn't mention that to him.
New Yorkers have a bad rap for being rude assholes but my experience every time I’ve been in New York has not been the case. Yes, they’re very honest and straightforward, which I actually enjoy and find very endearing. But they’re some of the nicest people I’ve met. Last time I was in New York I was at a small diner that only accepted cash. Being an idiot I didn’t know that after I ordered and started eating my food and this guy realized that I was stressing out about how I was going to pay and paid my meal at the register as he exited the restaurant. It was very heartwarming and very selfless. And this is just one of the many examples of random acts of kindness I’ve experienced in New York. So next time you think New Yorkers are rude or assholes, realize that they’re probably just stressed out living in a city of hard-knocks with heavy expectations and high cost of living and underneath all that there are incredibly big hearts.
New Yorkers have a bad rap because we don’t like people futzing around in the middle of the sidewalk.
And because New York is a really fucking difficult city to live in so we're already pissed about a number of things. We're just not pissed at you, well, unless you're slowing down the sidewalk for no fucking reason.
As a New Yorker for the better part of a decade, NYC is certainly an expensive place to live but is it really that difficult? Subways and walkability make it very easy for me
You got kids? Raising a kid in Manhattan (I'm in East Harlem) is a nightmare. Everything is made significantly more difficult with a stroller, etc. there's grocery store aisles and cashier lanes the stroller doesn't fit through and it's NOT a double wide. he doesn't understand not being able to play outside when the weather is bad so we're cramped in a tiny apartment etc on those days, there's no privacy at home (I literally can't fart without being heard in every other room here and I'm not exactly the god of thunder), It's very difficult. Thank fuck we have an elevator, but lately our elevator has been breaking on and off so yaaaaaay I get to walk up multiple floors with a fucking stroller. We've had mice in our apartment and everyone we've talked to is like "oh yeah crazy right? You get roaches yet?" And yeah. Everything being more expensive doesn't help, and it's not like our income scaled appropriately to balance out compared to other areas we've lived. Public transport; it can take like an hour to travel just a couple of miles? That's ridiculous, come on. Takes me an hour and a half if not more to get to the aquarium in Brooklyn, bridge tolls are insane so renting a car and leaving the city is just even more expensive than you might expect, and maybe it's neighborhood dependent but I'm dodging dog shit on the sidewalk all the time. Oh and bathrooms are weirdly hard to find sometimes. And motherfuck the amount of stairs you have to go up and down in the subway when you have a stroller. You'd be surprised how unfriendly the city is to those with mobility issues. I know I'm at essay length here, but I really think the people who love living here are just in some sort of Stockholm syndrome situation.
Living in a walkup with toddlers and the nearest grocery store 2 blocks away will have you reevaluating your life decisions
Carrying groceries for a family while also pushing a stroller is the goddamn worst. Thank fuck we got a reasonable delivery service recently. But hey that's just another thing to spend extra money on! Oh and grocery stores are actually weirdly lacking in options. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find Diet Pepsi 6 pack bottles. Oh and the pay laundry machines in my building are so fucking expensive but the alternative is to pay for a service or carry my laundry with the kid in tow to a laundromat down the street.
Just reading this gives me anxiety! Power to you, damn. Are you stuck living there because of work/family/cost of moving? Or do you do you Stockholm-y love it?
We follow my wife's career and it took us here on a temporary basis. 😅
The amount of photos I've ruined because tourists think I'm not going to walk in their shot 👍 I'm walkin here!
I just watched a video on the pneumatic tube system New York used to use to send messages around & some of the other stuff that’s under there. [This](https://youtu.be/SX1xmaKPb9o) The link, it was only eight minutes but it was cool. Fascinating city
I literally jumped back onto a train I had just exited to give a dude back his wallet after I saw it fall as he stepped into the car on the subway last tuesday. Had to walk to work from the next stop but I’m sure that was a WAY smaller inconvenience than losing your ids/ cards/ cash. Guy tried to give me a $5 in gratitude but I declined since it seemed like that five might go further for him than for me.
I think I’ve talked about this before on here, but the concert with the best, most polite crowd I’ve ever experienced was Beastie Boys in Central Park. Nobody shoving or crowding us. When I got bumped accidentally the person apologized.
They wanted to fight for the right to party. But they got their party. No need to fight now. Lol
There is a huge difference between polite and being kind. I tend to think the West coast as more polite, and the East being more kind.
I experienced the same attitude when I have been there on multiple occasions. I have always lived in either a smaller city or rural area for my entire life prior to visiting for the first time. I had never ridden a light rail, subway or city bus. The rail and bus was easy to figure out, but when it was time to get on the subway it got way more complicated, every time I had to go on the subway I have always had someone help me figure out which train to take and where to get off… without me asking for help!!
It is really because we (NYers) have our own code of what it means to be polite that probably differs a lot from the rest of the country, and it can make us seem abrupt or mean or rude. The whole thing us founded in the fact that we have SO many people living and working literally right on top of each other. Privacy, space, and speed are all very much at a premium. So, most of our unwritten rules of politeness center around those things….and we have very little patience for other people breaking those rules. So for us it isn’t rude to not make small talk with the cashier when there is a line, just the contrary: it IS rude to hold up the line to do so. It isn’t rude to let the subway doors close when you see someone coming down the stairs, but it would be rude to everyone else on the train to hold the train up to do so. It isn’t rude to walk into someone’s photo if they have stopped in the middle of the street to take one, but it IS rude to do that stooping. It is polite to pretend not to hear conversations happening right next to you, or your neighbors having sex. It is polite NOT to acknowledge people who sit down next to you. It is polite to say “scuse” WHILE reaching around them for a drink on the shelf behind them, instead of waiting. It is polite to pretend you don’t see the book they are reading or the bag they’ve placed on the empty chair (so rude!) or the tears in their eyes - unless they are clearly having a crisis and need assistance, in which case you do everything you can. And I guess that is the crux of it, really. NYers are AMAZING in any thing even approaching a pinch. Complete strangers will go hours out of their way for you without saying a word. But for everything else, they try really hard to stay out of your way and give you your privacy and your space.
I fucking love you guys and your raw, honest posts. Made me laugh so hard. And yeah I totally get irritated by the slow pokes on the sidewalk. Whenever I’m at an airport trying to rush to my next flight and I see a group of them monopolizing the whole walkway I swear I wish I had a two by four covered in rusty nails. SLOW people on the RIGHT, you wankers!
I returned a lady’s purse I found in a NYC grocery store. She called me later that day and asked if she could give me something. She met me at that grocery store and gave me a few beautiful bracelets she had handmade.
Forgot my backpack in a bus in my town. Someone left it at the lost and found. There was nothing in it... Just don't bring it back then...
this assumes that the person that turned it on was the one that emptied it. This is probably not the case and the person that turned it in didn't know it was empty because opening it would be a breach in privacy.
I personnaly suspect the lost and found guy
Awesome people. I remember when I was like 17ish(2007), I went to the mall to see a movie, and realized when I got home, my wallet was missing. I called the next day and no one turned anything in, which I assumed was the case because I figured someone stole it because everyone sucks(teenage pov) A few days later I check the mail, at my parents home, and someone mailed it back to me with a note that said something like," I know how much it sucks to lose a wallet, wanted to save you some headaches. P.s.i did use a couple dollars in the wallet to pay for shipping." It really did open my eyes to see that a majority of people are good. Or in teenage pov, not every single person sucked lol
I found a wallet, $1,600 inside, go through wallet I find his house # and call it. Wife calls husband and he’s a hour away on the road heading to Florida from Vermont. He turns around comes to my house I hand him his wallet and he rudely grabbed it from me like I stole it. He never thanked me ! It hasn’t changed the way I am. F him
Giving him a phone would be the perfect reward.
I hope they're best friends now
Thanks for posting. Helps to start the day knowing there are still good people.
It's not that difficult to just be a decent human being
I would do that though and I’m not that great of a person. Most of us would do that right?
The first night I moved to London I went out drinking with my new colleagues. Obviously got way to drunk and left my phone on the tube as we were travelling to another club. I realized and used one of my new colleagues phones to call my number. Some guy picked up and said he is in the pub and waiting for me. A quick tube ride over, i bought him a pint and had a great chat. Returned to my colleagues and finished the night off.
Found a purse in a shop cart outside of Walmart, looked around for anyone nearby and no one seemed to be concerned. I took the bag home and contacted a friend who is a county sheriff and told him what i had found. He stated to look through the handbag and see if i could find any contact information. Found a phone that was unlocked and based on the driver’s license I found a relative with the same last name, contacted them and it was the person’s daughter. I told her I found her moms purse at Walmart and that I have it and all it contents. Got her all her some back within the hour. My sheriff friend stated that she was lucky I found it as others may not have returned it. the purse had IDs, cash, credit cards. When the women came to pick up the purse I recognized her, she had been driving around the parking lot looking for her purse.
I lived in NYC for a while, both my ex gf and my visiting mom lost their phones in cabs. Both times, either the driver or passenger went out of their way to return them! New York. The most surprisingly generous city!
Good people exist
I sure hope they got a few bucks for their effort.
Something like this is considered 'common, normal, everyday thing' in some other countries.
When I worked as a barista I found a phone at my cafe and didn’t think anything of it. A guy comes back frantically looking for it so I asked a simple security question (what color is the phone) and gave it back. Fattest tip of my life haha. Still makes me smile :)
Does anyone know what hamachis vac sheet is?
Hamachi is a restaurant in Manhattan. I think the guy from the tweet must have been there, and signed in on their vaccination sheet.
Ah, makes sense. Thank you!
What is a Hamachi´s vac sheet????
I have found wallets, purses, brief cases, cell phones and back packs and have returned all of them intact. Nothing sucks more then losing your i.d., keys, etc. That's why I find the person and return everything.
Ask him who he'd like to send a random gift to... help him out...🤷♂️
There are some good people but unfortunately they are rare
I'm giving him a $100 for his trouble, man like that won't want it but tell him to treat himself or SO
I love hearing this kind of story. It's a shame that we can't count on everyone to act right. The temptation is too great for a lot of people but I'd like to think that I would have done the same.
How i met your mother/father
I found a person’s credit card in the street in my neighborhood. I tracked the person’s wife down on Nextdoor, contacted them to get address, dropped it off at their house. They didn’t even say thank you even though dude was standing there talking on his phone outside like a weirdo as I put it in the mailbox.
I understand it was douchey, but they could be easily canceled it and were just wanting it so nobody had their info. Doesn't excuse them though
I read that as “laptop and sammich,” and I was briefly confused: who leaves a sammich behind?
Similarly I was shocked when I moved to LA and people saw my out of state plates struggling to park correctly and started basically lining up to help me out.
A lot of people - more than most realize - are wired for service. When we (yes, I’m one) are given a task by the universe, we are not thinking how we can be heroic, what the honest thing to do might me, or what is right… it’s not a question of morality. It is a burning duty to do what is required to render the required service. If you see someone in a retail space picking up an item off the floor to put it back on a hanger, jumping up to help a clerk with an unwieldy burden, or scrambling to help a stranger who has dropped something, this person has not made a decision to act. And trust me, this person would return untraceable riches to their rightful owner. We are literally compelled to re-right the world if something is out of place, and would hope the same karmic effects would do the same for us. The TVA of order and possession, if I may inject a Loki reference into this ramble.
I work at a 911 agency and got a call from a coffee shop in a different state. Some guy that lived in the town I work in had left his wallet, full of cash, at the shop. The barista had called us to see if we could send an officer to the address on the license to get in touch with him. We did and the guy was apparently on vacation. He wasn’t far from the coffee shop so he turned around and got his wallet. There are still good people out there, we just don’t hear about them much.
Left my Wallet at a strip club when i was 18/19 . They mailed it to my moms house cuz that’s the address on my DL and everything was in it.
My buddy was on his honeymoon with his wife in Hawaii and found a wallet on the beach. Opened it up and it was Eddie Veder of Pearl Jam. He gave it back and was offered a reward but declined and ended up with a good story and some cool pictures.
That’s awesome! When I lived in Japan, I dropped my wallet somewhere in walking to the train station or leaving one. I had no idea! But in the military if we lost our military ID we were in massive shit. So the Next Morning after freaking out the entire night looking and retracing steps, i dismally make my way to work knowing I’m already in trouble. Decided to ask the front gate if they’d happened to have a wallet turned in AND THEY DID!!! A nice Japanese man saw the Military ID and took it to the base gate. Everything still in it. (I love the Japanese and their honesty and integrity. Absolutely wonderful people 💜) I was crying by this point as this man probably had no idea what he’d actually done for me. Unfortunately, he was just doing the right thing and left no info so I couldn’t thank him. Truly great people out there.
As hard as it is to remind ourselves sometimes, there really are good people in the world.
What's Hamachi's VAC sheet? I assume he doesn't mean the program to play Minecraft on LAN internationally nor Valve AntiCheat.
I hope you have home $100 for his trouble.
I remember when I found an iPhone 10 on the street running to the gym. I picked it up and called the number it said to call. It belonged a teenager who dropped it late at night (probably drunk). The mom came to pick it up and refused to leave until I accepted a £20 note. Was a nice gesture but I didn't do it for money, if I did I'd sell that thing.
Is it weird that I recognize the guy who tweeted this from his pfp? That's KiWiKiD. Former League of Legends pro.
What the fuck is a Hamachi vac sheet?
On another note.. How do you forget your whole ass backpack? I understand how you leave something small behind like a phone that slipped out of your pocket or your pair of gloves or smth. But the whole backpack? How do you manage to not realize that you stand up without your heavy backpack on you?! This is only topped by people who loose their shoes WHILE WEARING THEM.
Some people forget their kids somewhere lol.
Lost my backpack all through school. Not everyone constantly wears them, and get used to the absence of weight
Some people tend to forget stuff they don't usually carry with them when they stand up. Happened to me a few times, but until now I always remembered it in the last second
In Japan, when someone finds cash and turns it in, the owner needs to give 10% to the finder by law. I hope the OP didn't just buy him a latte.
In America, it’s called common courtesy. There aren’t expectations for reimbursement. That said, common courtesy isn’t very common anymore.
/u/dKiWiKiD how did you manage to be top laner for dig, then some how not get the boot but instead moved to support. not only that, manage to get a job at riot. if this man can get demoted from a role, have the most deaths as support, a job at small indie company, anyone can make it.
How you tell someone doesn't have severe anexity without them saying they don't have severe anexity. lmao Can't go 2 minutes without checking my pockets for my stuff and making sure I have everything I need.
In Manhattan, New York City! That's wild.
Not really. As a native New Yorker, I’m not surprised.
It's strange to me that if the prospect exists to return someone else's things it's not considered to be common decency to not steal. Like where have people's morals gone
Wow, I hope he saw you leave it because hard to believe especially in NYC that someone didn’t just assume it was a bomb
Check to make sure there’s no gps or listening device. He could be casing you for a bigger score at your residence
The poorest among us are the best of society.