Lost wallet.How many honest people are out there?

I dropped 3 ten pound notes in the car park of the local pool going in one morning. I'd been to the cash machine the day before. A lady came in behind me and found them and handed them in and in the changing room told me. I went and claimed them. We do chat when we meet anyway I was very grateful but
didn't think of buying her coffee or anything. I maybe should have?.

I remember Christmas 78. Hubby and I were out with another couple for a night out and walking back we found a wallet with over £300 in it. Had a name and address in so the next morning I used the phone book to look up a number, went to the phone box and put in 2p to phone the person.
Young man had been out of the booze the night before with his holiday wages and lost his wallet.
He came and picked up the wallet with the money in it. I was 8 months pregnant and on a wage of £25 a week so it was a huge amount of money.
He was that grateful he never even offered me the 2p the phone call had cost me!! Should have handed it in the police station which suggests a 10% reward.
I don't regret phoning him but some reward would have been nice.

A friend was on holiday in Madrid. He stopped in a busy central square to look at his map and walked off leaving his bag on the ground.
As soon as he realised he went back but it was gone so without any hope and feeling very stupid, he found a police station and asked if by any chance it had been handed in.
It had! 😀

Once when my daughter was a toddler in a pushchair I tucked my family allowance book, including money, into the folds of the hood, only to find it gone when I arrived home. Money was really tight at the time, and I immediately went out looking for it. I retraced my steps but it was nowhere to be found. Then two ladies approached me. They had noticed me searching. They had found it and come looking for me. I was so grateful. The money I had collected from the post office that morning was still all there. What a, relief!

We have always handed in lost wallets and phones. My GS found a really expensive designer bag in our street, against a wall. Everything was in there, including credit cards, front door keys, the person's name and address. We took my GS round to the address and he gave it back to the daughter who had lost it (on a drunken night out 😩). It turned out to be a very expensive 21st birthday present and she had been devastated to lose it. The parents were so overjoyed they sent a huge bouquet of flowers and money for my GS, although he said it was not necessary as his joy was in returning it.

I think most people are honest and kind.

My OH lost his wedding ring in Tesco's car park in Baldock . It was handed in by a very honest and kind person and when we returned and asked customer services if anyone had handed it in , it was returned to us. It was gold , as you would expect, so that was good of them.

I found after moving recently that not everyone is as honest as we would like. I ordered some makeup etc which was delivered to a house across the road. I contacted the company who admitted they had used the wrong house number but on sending the replacement the parcel again went to the house over the road! Told this by the Delivery company. Why do some dishonest people take in parcels & keep when obviously not meant for them. We would have told the Courier to take it back but not our neighbours sadly! Hope the makeup gave them a nice rash 😂

I recently was in part of a nearby town which I seldom visit - only there as I had a prescription to collect as had changed pharmacies since previous one managed to give me the wrong message four times!

The new pharmacy is in a very deprived area. There was a community shop selling second hand items for £1 per item. An awful lot of tat but did get a couple of lovely wooden toys and a big bag of toy bricks. When I stopped at a supermarket I discovered my purse was missing. Had about £20 and all my cards in it. Went back to the charity shop and a customer had handed it in. I was delighted and surprised. Unfortunately the finder hadn't left any details so couldn't thank/ reward them.

I would always hand a purse if I found one as I know on the two occasions I dropped mine it was handed in and I was so grateful.

I would try and hand it in. Always been an honest person and hope people would be honest with me in the future. If I found money or wallet near to a shop then I would hand it in there but I would want to know if it was picked up within 6 weeks or I want it. No clue where the police station is near to us.

Chardy

I read this yesterday morning, and later saw a man's wallet on the floor next to a very old lady on her own. (Very old means at least 5 years older than me btw)
I picked it up and showed it to her, leaving it on her table. Ten minutes later an older man (that means younger than me) came over and thanked me profusely. I did think of you Delia

Thank you Chardy! And for the smile your post gave me!😊

The day before her DG funeral my DD arrived very distraught having accidentally left her expensive camera (she's a professional photographer) in a public toilet in an unsalubrious part of the city. Maybe 15 mins later she noticed, went back but it had gone. The loss was reported to the police but on the answerphone.
The rest of the journey she spent asking on the Facebook pages for that region. Someone even offered to lend her a camera.
The following morning, she had a call from the police. It had been handed in. Whoever had been so honest, left no name so a big thank you from us.

Less happy was the day of my DM funeral, my car was broken into at the crematorium and my rucksack with my purse and passport taken from the boot.
I spent the time I wanted to be with fellow mourners, on the phone cancelling cards and passport and having the car window repaired.
A few days later, I had a call from Tesco 400 miles away in DM town asking if I'd lost a rucksack.
It was found in their clothes bank and handed in. I eventually got it back intact apart from cash and a scarf.

Cemetery and crematorium carparks are notorious for thefts I was told.

I lost my purse in Boots as a student I had very little money. I asked at their customer services desk ( not on any branches now) and someone had handed it in. I never found pot who it was but I was so grateful. Everything was still in it. I would give back anything I found but I’ve never found anything

We are lucky in our village,the majority are decent honest humans. Only last week someone withdrew £100 from the cash machine in our Co-op supermarket, put an elastic band round the bundle and put it in their pocket. Somehow, on the way to their car it must have dropped out of his pocket as he discovered it missing when he got home. Some lovely person picked it up in the car park and handed it in to the girl on the til in the co-op!

We were always taught to hand things in as my Mum said they would be returned to us if they were unclaimed. She also said that it was a way to ensure that we didn't find things before they were lost!
One of the biggest rows I can remember my Mum and Stepdad having about the kids was when my Dad told my step-sister she could keep a sum of money she found dropped in a street. My Mum was furious and said it could have been someone's pension or food money. That stuck in my mind so I would always hand it in.
What's strange, is that now Mum has dementia, she is always squirrelling stuff away whether it is hers or not!

Anything I have found I have handed in to the police. I hate the feeling of loss. I still get upset when I recall visiting the Ladies at a Garden Centre with my lovely MIL. My silver watch came off my wrist as I removed my woollen gloves. A woman entered the otherwise empty area as I was washing my hands and used the cubicle I had just left. She was very quickly out and left the place without washing her hands. I remember my MIL looking somewhat surprised and commenting on this. I realised my watch had been picked up but it was too late to challenge her. The watch cost £70, not a fortune , but was so pretty lots of people fancied it. I was really upset.

I read a case where lost and as yet unclaimed money left at the local police station was 'donated' to the police charity after a few months. Might be better then, to advertise on Facebook and Nextdoor and find the actual owner as a first resort.

Unless you withheld your number when phoning him, he would have seen it when you called.

I found a wallet and called the owner from home (it was raining cats and dogs).He wanted to know where I found it, how much money there was in it, and, the cheek, wanted me to return it, thereby implying that I filched it myself and was angling for a reward. I said I would do no such thing, but I would post it to him, since he said he could not collect. The weird thing is that my home number is unlisted, but the next day, he called me back on it and said, very angrily, that he had not received the wallet, as I had promised. I said I had promised to post it, not that it would arrive within twenty-four hours. I did not give him the pleasure of asking him how he managed to track the number. So, I asked him to confirm that it had arrived, when it did. He did not confirm, so I assume it had arrived, because otherwise he would have called to say it had not. Some people are so entitled and rude.

I found a purse in the phone box when I was a child.
I cried all the way home in case anyone thought I'd stolen it.i can remember not knowing whether to even touch it, in case the police came.
Nobody claimed it, and I think I was given it back after a while.

There are a lot of honest people about .but very few police stations .

I'm so sorry that happened to your hubby, horrible feeling when that happens.

As few years ago when hubby and I were working on the buses he lost his wallet in the middle of the bus station. There was cash, his driving license and other essentials. He was going nuts which was totally understandable. About 20 minutes later he got a call on his mobile from a woman saying she'd found it and would wait there for him to collect it. He was thankfully only a few minutes walk away and handed her £20.00 cash as a thank you!

I had a bad experience when I was 18, I'm 58 now, and walking down the road on my way to work past what used the be the unemployment signing-on office way before it became known as JobcentrePlus. A man was walking in front of me and his walled fell from his back pocket so I grabbed it, approached, handed it it over said I'd just seen it fall from his pocket. He gave me a really evil look, snatched it from my hand and stormed off, not a thank you or even just a smile.

About 3 weeks later I was again walking past the same place/down the same road and that exact same man was again in front of me and again his wallet slipped from his pocket. This time I didn't bother and just left it there!

I read this yesterday morning, and later saw a man's wallet on the floor next to a very old lady on her own. (Very old means at least 5 years older than me btw)
I picked it up and showed it to her, leaving it on her table. Ten minutes later an older man (that means younger than me) came over and thanked me profusely. I did think of you Delia

About 3 years ago, I discovered that all the notes and some other bits and pieces were missing from my purse. This was on a Sunday. My purse was undone, and as I`d returned from town by taxi the previous day, I had the money (£120) then. So my son looked back on our CCTV and saw me walk away from the taxi and my money spilling out onto the ground. A few seconds later, a man walked past, saw the cash on the ground and picked it up, pocketing it. Needless to say, I never saw it again.

About 30 years ago I took quite a bit of money out of the bank to buy the uniforms and equipment the children were going to need for the new school year. Somewhere on my way round the shops it disappeared. I reported it at the police station but heard no more. Several months later I had a phone call from a police officer. "Don't you want this wallet then?" Apparently it had been picked up by a local farmer who had dropped it into the station with all its contents intact. Somehow the "Found" report hadn't been linked up with the "Lost" report for some weeks

I once found a mobile phone (when they weren't as ubiquitous as they are now) I tried the home number on it and spoke to the mother of the owner. They came rushing round to collect it and left with Mother saying "Right, lets get home now before your Dad finds out that you lost it!"

When my son was at uni he found a wallet with credit cards and about £100 in cash . He took it to the nearest police station and left his details but heard nothing .
And a few years ago he was at a festival and when he was leaving, couldn’t find his phone . When he got home he got a call from someone who found his phone . On receipt my son sent some money as a thank you .