Honesty - How honest are you?!

Years ago I found a wallet stuffed with cash on a bus in Italy. I handed it to the driver and if he kept it it’s on his conscience . Not mine.

unless you are mentally disorded in some way,then i hope most people at heart want to help and do good.Big problem that humans face is the constant onslaught of wanting more ,beating the other down or getting to the winning post,You don't have to look far to see where the ideas come from!

I would always hand something in if I found it and it looked important or had money in. However, a few years ago now, my young SonIL found a handbag in the street with some of its contents scattered and called the police to alert them just in case somebody was looking for it. We were literally within 5 minutes of catching a coach to the airport so he explained why he couldn't wait for the police to collect it and he offered to leave it with the house sitter. The way he was treated was disgraceful. They threatened him with all sorts if he didn't stay to answer questions and hand it in himself. In the end my husband had to talk to a more senior person whilst we were travelling on the coach to make them see sense. As he said, why would you hand something in if you had committed some sort of crime. The police were still suspicious when they collected the bag from the house sitter but we didn't hear any more.

Years ago as a teenager I found a pay packet then in my 30s found a wallet bulging with money in the freezer section in the supermarket. I handed the pay packet into police station and carried the wallet to a supervisor holding it in the air just incase I was accused of stealing it. I’ve found car keys a few times on our local beach which I handed in.

My brother had no intention of keeping the item he found outside his house. He took it to the local police station, in the next street and handed it in. He did ask for his belt back which he had tied round the item. Luckily the police knew where the goat had escaped from. Apparently it had got out of the allotment before.

I nearly didn’t reply to this as last November time we found a debit card in a puddle. Traced the owner on Facebook. He made contact and said he would put me a tenner in the post for my trouble. I posted it off Signed For.

I never received the tenner and I posted on GN and was absolutely slated for “expecting a reward” (which I wasn’t as he offered). I have never received the tenner and messaged him months ago to say so and he said “I will check with my bank.” How he expected his Bank to know he had posted £10 I do not know! 😉

Honesty should work both ways!

I am not able to lie, just don't have the ability.

So I tend to do the right thing in these situations...

Once when I was 16, I went to the cash machine hoping I had 5 pounds in it so I could get the bus home. There was a lady in front of me. She was being very skittish and suddenly ran off. That's when quite a lot of money popped out.
I ran after her, she eventually took her money but no thank you.

I had nothing in my account and walked 5 miles home in the rain

I like to think we are all honest people but I do have to confess to fixing a parking meter with a Coca Cola ring pull. I had driven my car to work and needed to leave it all day. In those days you could leave a note on the screen and the warden would pass you by ! These days I have to confess to buying too much in the supermarket and pressing own bag! I’m waiting for a knock at the door.!

What a super thread! Thank you all, it's cheered me up no end!

I have always tried to be honest and have taken anything I have found to the police. Being considered dishonest is an awful feeling and I have experienced it.
On a Friday I used to call into a Health shop and bought odds and ends that took my fancy. There was no basket for these so I used to place the items on the counter. The owner would ring them up as I did so as the shop was often empty of other customers. One Friday whe I returned home I checked my goods and the bill and discovered I had not been charged for one item. I looked up the shop's number in the Phone Book but couldn't really reminder the shop's name. In the end I phoned the small Southern Electricity shop near by whose number was easy to find. The person there kindly gave me the Health shop name and number. Immediately I phoned the latter but by this time it was after 5.30 and the shop was closed.
I only shopped on a Friday as I worked all week and I went in on the following Friday as usual. While I browsed the owner chatted with a man leaning against the counter. The former said, "Some people are clever" and proceeded to describe how they placed items on the counter and then didn't pay for the,. I realise with horror he was referring to me and I felt DREADFUL. When we were alone I explained I wished to pay for the "stolen" item but was too embarrassed to mention the whole "saga".I still cringe when I remember this incident and wish I had mentioned my phone call to the electricity board shop. I didn't;t visit again for three weeks and then when I tried to do so found the shop had closed down.

nice!

Totally honest, it was drummed into me by my parents and the Church. They messed up some things but not this one.

I would love to be surplus to requirements sometimes! I am the go to for opinions/advice/help with dogs, children, household tasks and occasionally loans etc. I wait in line to post parcels, pick up from school, attend meetings, help with CVs, letters etc. My ex seems to get off far more lightly and with less demands and more gratitude expressed for what he actually does do!

Most people are honest, I don't understand why you are so exercised about it.

too honest

My niece works on the returns counter of a huge M&S store. She says she often has to have "difficult conversations" with people who try to return garments which have very obviously been worn: sweaty armpits, stains, hems down. Rather depressing I find.

I’m always very honest in returning things if I find something.

I did have my purse stolen about 40 yrs ago and it was never recovered after notifying police. I was calling on one of my retail clients in a drug store - the cosmetician gave me a hidden shelf to put my purse when I had to step away from the counter to service a customer. Gone, just like that.

The store’s security cameras showed a man (who must have been watching me put it away) dash behind the counter, grab it and out the door. It only takes one minute to happen!

I am amazed at the women who are shopping in grocery stores who leave their purses Wide Open😳 in the shopping cart - with wallet, checkbook, credit cards, phone exposed while they’re rummaging sound on the shelf looking for pickles, their back turned, five feet away - what an invitation that is! Don’t do that!

rummaging around

Not everyone is honest. Somehow I misplaced my reading glasses with case in a Sainsburys store. I know it was somewhere between the lottery stand or over near the cash desk. I didn't realize until next day when I went into my handbag to get them. I phoned the store and lost property told me they had found them (I gave a description of glasses and case) I was glad to be getting them only when I went for the collection it was no case and different glasses. To cut a long story short they were lovely glasses and only two months old and rather expensive. I had to pay out for new glasses and was so annoyed. My own fault I suppose but if that had been me and I found some-ones glasses I would have handed them in sadly not everyone is honest.

I think the majority of people are honest, but those that aren't wouldn't dare admit it!

I do know of one woman who cheats the system every way she can, and is so tight with money she squeaks. She is the sister of a friend, and when I hear the stories, I shudder. For instance, it there is something she wants to buy that is a set of four, she will buy a set from 4 different locations, take out one from each package, and return them saying one was missing when she bought it.

I also found out years after my wedding that a woman who was invited to the wedding shower was a known kleptomaniac, with a bad reputation in town. I have a lovely heavy ceramic coated fry pan that I still wonder if it was paid for or stolen.

I recently found a wallet on the pavement near my home. There wasn’t any money in it but it did include some bank cards and a travel pass so it belonged to a young man. I went to the local shop to see if was still there, but he wasn’t so handed into the local police station. My husband used work there, so when the lad phoned to see if it had been handed in, the desk officer confirmed it had and told them where we lived. His mum came round the next day to thank me and we’re now quite good friends

It’s awful losing something important/ special and not being reunited with it. I left a beautiful leather bag ( new ) in a taxi, apart from the bag my purse and personal contents were lost. The taxi firm were most unhelpful when I contacted them within a few minutes. I think the next passengers kept it. Don’t know how these people can live with themselves.

Hardly a day goes by that one of our local Facebook groups doesn’t have a post about a found credit card, oystercard, wallet, purse, set of keys or lost dog or teddy bear. It’s a city area with lots of drug use and drug dealing but clearly many good honest people too, me among them.

Katie59

I’m totally honest, although I did sneak into a museum saying I was a pensioner a year early, sorry about that.

I love that👌🏼 you little minx. Whatever next 🤔

why wouls anyone grudge paying ?30p for a carrier bag ??
i can't understand stealing that.