Honesty - How honest are you?!

my husband has found 2 wallets ( separate incidents)when we have been shopping. We returned the first to the police station and the owner rang us offering a reward. We did not want any reward but said if he wanted , he could give a donation to the dogs trust
the second time, there was no police station for several miles. The lady in the bank took it in and said she would contact the person as it seemed to be a customer. We had not even opened the wallet to check as that seemed an invasion of privacy
I found a wallet on a bus and took it to the bus station
-again unopened
Saying that I was undercharged by 80 pence on Saturday. I did not tell the assistant as a few months ago there was an unsatisfactory purchase and felt justified that the 80p went someway towards compensation. I had not kept the receipt for the unsatisfactory item. So not honest for 100% of the time

I often wonder how much money I would hand in. For example, if I found a £10 note in the road I would keep it. I might keep £20. But anything more than that I think I would hand in to the police. Hmm....? What would others do?

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Goodness MOnica! Why wouldn’t your son want you to benefit from his Netflix account? It doesn’t make any difference to him. And he must have given you the log-in details at some point.

We have AmazonPrime but if there’s a series or film you have to pay for I always check my son’s account to see if he’s bought it. And he sometimes has. He lives 130-miles away. He volunteered his log-in details and he’s happy enough for us to use it - although it has only happened half-a-dozen times over the years.
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As well as most people being honest, on a recent trip on my own to a very large city (we live in a very remote far off spot normally, so well out of my comfort zone) I was very heartened and warmed by the number of people who offered help with my bulky case or a seat on a tram or train or were just generally kind and helpful if I asked the way to somewhere. There are indeed so many good people out there who don’t make the news

Over the years I’ve returned 4 wallets/purses to the owners ….one , who didn’t have a phone number in the purse , was a two bus ride away ….when I handed the wallet over she said “ pity you couldn’t have gotten it to me before I cancelled my cards”……I explained that I didn’t drive and had to catch two buses ….she just shrugged and shut door in my face.
Ah well….another two buses home them is it!? 🤬,

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

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 🤔

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

rummaging around

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!

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.

too honest

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

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!

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

nice!

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.

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

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.!

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 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!