If Someone Drops Money In Front Of You On The Street, What Would You Honestly Do?

[JimmyBoy]

I'm not talking about a little $1.00 or $5.00 but a $20.00 , $50.00 , or a $100.00 bill.

Last night I was out shopping and I noticed this woman in front of me dropped a $50.00 bill out of her jacket pocket. I was faced with the split second decision to take it and pocket it or take it and chase after her. If you must know I took it and gave it back. I admit the thought did cross my mind to pocket it but I wound up not doing that. Her heart sank when I gave it back and when she checked her pocket noticing the money was missing.

So I ask you, if you were faced with this. What would you honestly do? If I do not see anyone drop anything and just see the bill lying on the sidewalk by all means I would take it but not when I actually see someone drop it. The most I've ever found on the street was a $10.00 bill.

 

[General Zod]

If I saw someone drop it,I would get their attention and give it back

 

[SmarterthanU]

Tap them on the shoulder and give it back, what else?

 

[CitY of MicA]

I once got on a bus and there was around five dollars worth of change lying on a seat along with some small personal belongings. I went up and gave it all to the bus driver. The thought occured to me that he might keep the stuff for himself, which didn't sit so well with me. But he called in to report the stuff as being found while I was still on the bus, and I was really pleased about the whole thing.

Believe it or not, legally, if you find a $20 bill (or anything greater), your supposed to turn it over to the police (no claimee and it's yours). Knowing that and claiming to be a good citizen, I would do it.

 

[JimmyBoy]

"Believe it or not, legally, if you find a $20 bill (or anything greater), your supposed to turn it over to the police (no claimee and it's yours)."


Really, I never knew that before. Well since I found a $10.00 it was mine 😉

 

[locker669]

When it comes to money and love, what goes around comes around. I would give the money back.

 

[maniactickler]

Even a cold hearted republican like myself would return the money.

 

[chicago]

Either I'm the only honest one here, or there are a lot of kind-hearted people on this forum.

Anyway, this happens to me a lot at work. If it's an elderly person or a kid or something like that, I'd feel too bad to take it, but most of the time, it's a dumb-ass oblivious fuckin' yuppie that's too busy to notice because they got a blue-tooth piece in their ear.

When that happens, I take that shit with a smile on my face.

 

[steph]

Depends on how broke I was that week. 😀
Seriously though, I do beleive in the karma police. If the bill was just sitting there I wouldn't tap some random stranger~you KNOW their ass would take it. If I saw it fall, I'd have to come clean with the obvious owner. No-brainer.
XOXO

So I ask you, if you were faced with this. What would you honestly do? If I do not see anyone drop anything and just see the bill lying on the sidewalk by all means I would take it but not when I actually see someone drop it. The most I've ever found on the street was a $10.00 bill.

 

[cloudgazer2k]

in the not-too-distant past, i was faced with a situation most people would take and run. i was living in an apartment complex at the time and had no phone. any calls i needed to make were either from the neighbor's phone, or the payphone in front of the building. one day, i saw a purse sitting on top of the payphone. inside was at least $200 in cash in a wallet, a foodstamp card, and other valuables. the darker side of me wanted to run with it, of course. but, being the guy i am, i stayed at the payphone in 100 degree weather until someone claimed it. turned out the owner was with a friend of mine and they both vouched for the contents. i'm glad i had stuck around with the purse, because the girl that had lost it had a 3 month old baby.

 

[subZer0]

If I saw someone drop their money, whatever amount, I'd give it them back, if I got there first.

 

[milagros317]

I would give it back to the person who dropped it. 😀

 

[kered]

I would give it back. Sorry, it's just my midwest upbringing.

 

[NYTickleguy]

The more money, the less likely I'd give it back.


It feels good to be honest

 

[chicago]

The more money, the less likely I'd give it back.


It feels good to be honest

Thank you.

 

[theshire]

A few months ago I was walking past a bank and I saw that someone had left their credit card sticking out of the cash machine, and the owner was nowhere in sight. Like a good citizen, I went into the bank and handed it in.

So I like to think I'd do a similar thing in this situation, too.

 

[chicago]

A few months ago I was walking past a bank and I saw that someone had left their credit card sticking out of the cash machine, and the owner was nowhere in sight. Like a good citizen, I went into the bank and handed it in.

So I like to think I'd do a similar thing in this situation, too.

Yeah, I don't mess with credit cards.

 

[SamuelKhan]

If it's not mine...

If it's not mine, I give it back, if possible.

It goes back to when I used to clean tables at a steak house. I earned a reputation for being honest when I seen tips left by customers by always giving them to the waitresses that waited on the tables. One Christmas party I got a card with 10 one-dollar bills from the waitresses, simply thanking me for not stealing their tips. So in a way, being honest does pay.

Wal-Mart, on the other hand, have always been total dicks for forbidding associates to take tips when they made a delivery. Fuckingcuntbastard management would come down on you HARD if they found out you took a 5 or even a 20 from a generous customer. One time, I delivered a patio furniture set to a house and the customer gave me a 10. I then informed him that I couldn't take tips. Then he shoved the bill in my front pocket and said, "that's our secret."

They did reimburse my miles but nothing worth mentioning.

Sorry, that brought up some rather oppressive memories from my Wal-Mart period. I hear it's become far worse in the 5 plus years since I've been there.

Be honest, give it back.

 

[tcklft]

Be honest, give it back.

Oh, alright.

There, now I feel better.

 

[Dário F]

Over here there's a saying, which i'm not sure it's used elsewhere: "Do to others what you'd like to have them do for you"... I would return the money regardless of the amount right away. I wouldn't sleep right if i didn't. lol

 

[kis123]

If I found it on the street with no obvious owner, it's all mine! If I saw the incident when it got lost, I'd turn it in or I wouldn't get any sleep. What can I tell you; religious education is tough to slough off!

 

[DimpleToes]

I would give it back..very quietly say..excuse me.is this yours..🙂

 

[Evil Dave]

I'd give it back if I knew who dropped it 'cause I'd see keeping it as being stealing under those circumstances.

I've kept cash I've found if I genuinely don't know who it belongs to. If I just look down and find a twenty then lucky me.

People have given me back notes I've dropped in the past so it's the goes around comes around thing.

 

[minerva]

If I saw who dropped it, I'd give it back - no doubt.

 

[WorkInProgress]

I can't say what I'll do in every instance, but there was one time when I found some money and some ID cards nearby, and figuring that they had all come from the same lost wallet, I used the ID cards to track down the owner and return it all to him.

Another time in the NYC subway I saw money on the platform, with no way of tracking down its owner, and I...well...left it there for someone who might need it more than I did to pick up.

I might on another occasion pocket that money, but I would never even think of failing to return money if I had any possible way of finding the owner. To me that's just a matter of refraining from being a thief.