[mattmatt86]

So I had just finished tuning up a bike and I was taking it out for a test ride in the shop's parking lot. Whilst coming back in I noticed a wallet laying on the ground, I threw it in my apron and went back to the shop area. I opened up the wallet and what do I find; License, various credit cards, a season pass to six flags, and $387 in cash! As a poor college student my eyes immediately lit up with the thoughts of all the booze, lap dances, and Easy Mac that could buy me. Then the little angel on my left shoulder tells me to do the right thing and try to find the owner. I look his name up in the customer database and find his number and give him a call. He was also a student here at Clemson and was ecstatic that I found his wallet. I didn't get any reward nor did I get any sort of warm and fuzzy feeling inside. I just hope what goes around comes around.

 

[bitingback]

you did good!!!

 

[stinkyboy]

You're looking for payback and recognition?!

You've just experienced the meaning of life.

Enjoy some neg rep.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

Yup, if a wallet has ID or anyway of finding the owner, return it to them.

No ID of any kind, score.


I once lost my wallet in downtown Philadelphia and got it back.

 

[BrooklynMachine]

Three-fitty in NYC gets you one lap dance and a beer...domestic.

Just be happy that girls are and hotter and cheaper to court down south.

 

[valve bouncer]

Stink's right but I thought 10% was the usual.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Stink's right but I thought 10% was the usual.

If I find your bike, may I have the brakes as a reward?

10% might be usual, but politely turning down the offer would be the right thing to do. There should not be a fee for service for returning somebody's property.

 

[Quo Fan]

Expecting a reward for doing the right thing canceled the good karma you would have gotten. If you always do the right thing, then good karma will flow your way.

 

[Austin Bike]

I lost my wallet on a trail once (yeah, fo some stupid reason I put it in the camelback...)

About 2 months later a guy I know found it. All the credit cards had been replaced and the DL, so the cash was all that mattered. Even the wallet was waterlogged and worthless.

I gave him all the cash (it was ~$40). Even though he didn't want it I told him to take it and buy beer for everyone after the next ride.

What I did get out of it was a nice duplicate DL that I keep in my camelback now.

You have to reward people that do good because so many people would not. It's real easy to say "I found the wallet but there was no cash in it."

 

[Nick]

Well, take something from the fact that you DID do the right thing.
Whatever that is worth to you ....

 

[valve bouncer]

If I find your bike, may I have the brakes as a reward?

10% might be usual, but politely turning down the offer would be the right thing to do. There should not be a fee for service for returning somebody's property.

Of course not but you'd would be the recipient of a carton of cans or a nice big watermelon from the in-laws shop. People who don't look after the "findee" or as ignorant as the people who expect a reward. Ymmv.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Karma will bring you just as many gifts for being good as Santa Clause will.

 

[Jimmy_Pop]

Expecting a reward for doing the right thing canceled the good karma you would have gotten. If you always do the right thing, then good karma will flow your way.

Exactly the same reason my dad believed that when tithing/giving in church, you do it in secret/cash. He said, you can either have mans reward of recognition & receipts or you can have God's reward, but not both.

 

[BurlyShirley]

Isn't doing something good, and expecting 'good karma' in return essentially the same thing as expecting a cash reward?

 

[Jeremy R]

I would have mailed him his wallet back.
Right after I got back from Six Flags.
Roller Coasters FTMFW!

 

[ire]

You did the right thing, that is a hell of a lot of cash to have on hand....was he doing some illicit trading?

 

[gsweet]

nah, you did the right thing. to hell with those who think otherwise; i get the sense you are hoping for good karma as a result of what you did, not doing the deed for the sake of good karma. i'm a student too and have found myself in a similar situation a handful of times and i've always returned what i've found. sometimes the person just says thanks and walks away, sometimes they buy me a beer or lunch. just keep doing the right thing and it'll inspire people around you to follow suit; that's a reward in and of itself.

 

[TrailMonkey]

Your reward was that warm feeling you had inside....sucks doesn't it?

 

[SkaredShtles]

Karma will bring you just as many gifts for being good as Santa Clause will.

Good on ya for doing the RIGHT thing.

 

[w00dy]

You're looking for payback and recognition?!

You've just experienced the meaning of life.

Enjoy some neg rep.

Hahahahaha, seriously?

 

[CBJ]

Season pass to six flags and he has a bike - something does not add up.

 

[mattmatt86]

Season pass to six flags and he has a bike - something does not add up.

His bike was a 25 year old schwinn that I fixed a week earlier. I was honestly hoping for a trip to six flags. I haven't been on a roller coaster since senior year of high school (4 years), how sad is that?