How honest are you?
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How honest are you?
I recently bought a load of vintage furniture for up-cycling. the seller had checked the drawers prior to collection, sale done.
A few days later i found £70 and a copy of a will, i returned both the money and will when i went to collect the remaining furniture.
Only reason i'm asking is that the general consensus in the office is i'm daft.
Not that it matters but it was an elderly ladies furniture.
What is your take on it?
I recently bought a load of vintage furniture for up-cycling. the seller had checked the drawers prior to collection, sale done.
A few days later i found £70 and a copy of a will, i returned both the money and will when i went to collect the remaining furniture.
Only reason i'm asking is that the general consensus in the office is i'm daft.
Not that it matters but it was an elderly ladies furniture.
What is your take on it?
gdcts said:
How honest are you?
I recently bought a load of vintage furniture for up-cycling. the seller had checked the drawers prior to collection, sale done.
A few days later i found £70 and a copy of a will, i returned both the money and will when i went to collect the remaining furniture.
Only reason i'm asking is that the general consensus in the office is i'm daft.
Not that it matters but it was an elderly ladies furniture.
What is your take on it?
Your integrity is like your virginity. Once you've lost it, it's gone.I recently bought a load of vintage furniture for up-cycling. the seller had checked the drawers prior to collection, sale done.
A few days later i found £70 and a copy of a will, i returned both the money and will when i went to collect the remaining furniture.
Only reason i'm asking is that the general consensus in the office is i'm daft.
Not that it matters but it was an elderly ladies furniture.
What is your take on it?
You did the right thing.
dead honest I think. funnily enough found a chaps wallet, bank cards in etc this am, in a gutter near my dtrs school.
can't find him on moron book.
but there are 3 addresses for him in his wallet. 2 of which don't exist/well are incorrect and are on a housing estate.
his driving licence one, I called at and left a note through his door. I'll give it 24 hrs and if I hear nothing, hand it in to the plod.
however I did once find a 4 figure sum of cash, in my own owned house under the floorboards when I was renewing the central heating. Having by then owned the house for several years, I kept it.
Legally its mine anyway. The house had been owned by the same people for some 35/40 years so I can only assume husband/wife didn't know about said stash.
can't find him on moron book.
but there are 3 addresses for him in his wallet. 2 of which don't exist/well are incorrect and are on a housing estate.
his driving licence one, I called at and left a note through his door. I'll give it 24 hrs and if I hear nothing, hand it in to the plod.
however I did once find a 4 figure sum of cash, in my own owned house under the floorboards when I was renewing the central heating. Having by then owned the house for several years, I kept it.
Legally its mine anyway. The house had been owned by the same people for some 35/40 years so I can only assume husband/wife didn't know about said stash.
I try to be as honest as I'd like other people to be. I've found two credit cards recently, one was at a classic car show and went to the chap in the arena with the microphone and was reunited with its owner quickly, the other was just on a pavement so, after trying the pub it was outside (no-one recognised the name on the card) and the local police station (closed as was Sunday evening) I put a note around it and dropped it through Nat West's letter box (it was a Nat West Card). If I notice I've been given too much change in a pub, I'll give it them back because if it was the other way around, I'd want them to sort it out as well.
I'd like to think that if I'd acquired something in the OPs situation, I'd do the same thing.
I'd like to think that if I'd acquired something in the OPs situation, I'd do the same thing.
sparks_E39 said:
If I find a £20 note on the pavement I'll keep it as it's impossible to trace the owner, in your position or anything remotely similar I'd do the same as you.
This. Sparks is right, IMO. On a side note, my brother had an interview with a top security firm a few years ago. One of the questions asked was "If you found a £20 note in the street, what would you do with it?" He replied "Put it in my pocket." It was the correct answer - they considered anyone who replied "Hand it in to the police, etc." was basically being dishonest in the interview. If I saw someone drop money in the street it's an entirely different answer. Amused2death said:
If I saw someone drop a tenner in the street I'd chase after them to return it. If I found a tenner in the street it'd go in my pocket.
Same here. But if I found a pound coin in the drawer of a piece of furniture I'd bought would I return it? No. A tenner? Dunno. A hundred? Yes.
So it appears I have a price.
A will however I'd definitely be trying to return to it's owner regardless of where I found it.
How honest am I? By coincidence this subject came up at the boozer last week, six blokes and we reckon that we had broken most of the ten commandments, including the stealing and if you had kept your find then some people would regard that as stealing being depriving somone of their property.
One bloke found a scratch card that had been scratched off, he looked at it and saw that there was a prize due of £100, he cashed it and kept the money, knowing that this was dishonest
So whilst we all try to be good people, many of us fail.
Cannot say that I am honest.
One bloke found a scratch card that had been scratched off, he looked at it and saw that there was a prize due of £100, he cashed it and kept the money, knowing that this was dishonest
So whilst we all try to be good people, many of us fail.
Cannot say that I am honest.
I bought a baguette from Sainsbury last week and at the self check out clicked on the baguette icon, selected 1 item and put it in my bag. I then realised it had only charged me 25p and the one I had bought actually had a bar code and was priced at 30p.
I called the Sainsbury's assistant over, she cancelled the transaction, and I scanned it through and paid 30p. Howhonest stupid is that 
I called the Sainsbury's assistant over, she cancelled the transaction, and I scanned it through and paid 30p. How
Edited by Monkeylegend on Wednesday 7th December 12:04
I'm as honest as I have needed other people to be. I left my wallet in a phone box with about £200, my passport and ferry tickets in it when I was 18 and travelling to France on my own. Somebody handed it in to the police station with everything still in it.
I always hand in things I find, you certainly did the right thing.
I always hand in things I find, you certainly did the right thing.
Monkeylegend said:
I bought a baguette from Sainsbury last week and at the self check out clicked on the baguette icon, selected 1 item and put it in my bag. I then realised it had only charged me 25p and the one I had bought actually had a bar code and was priced at 30p.
I called the Sainsbury's assistant over, she cancelled the transaction, and I scanned it through and paid 30p. How honest is that
The barcode had fallen off my £1.10 large avocado at Tesco recently so I checked it on the menu. The self serve till rang up 65p but when I put it on the bagging side it clearly wasn't having any of it. The assistant didn't know what an avocado was and certainly wasn't in the mood to faff about undoing the transaction and then finding the right barcode to sort out the right price even though I told her what it should be. I tried to be honest but it seems the universe wanted me to have a cheap breakfast.I called the Sainsbury's assistant over, she cancelled the transaction, and I scanned it through and paid 30p. How honest is that
OP - You did the right thing there 
I found a bank card recently and took the trouble of calling the number on it to report it as found and was told to destroy it. I don't really look on that as honesty, just doing the right thing really, finding a card and then trying to find a way of using it is a whole different ball game.
I've found cash in the past and look on that as a bonus. Whether I'd feel the same if it was something obvious like £500 in £20 notes in an envelope I'm not sure. I like to think I'd hand it in and hope it isn't claimed.
I found a bank card recently and took the trouble of calling the number on it to report it as found and was told to destroy it. I don't really look on that as honesty, just doing the right thing really, finding a card and then trying to find a way of using it is a whole different ball game.
I've found cash in the past and look on that as a bonus. Whether I'd feel the same if it was something obvious like £500 in £20 notes in an envelope I'm not sure. I like to think I'd hand it in and hope it isn't claimed.
can't remember said:
Monkeylegend said:
I bought a baguette from Sainsbury last week and at the self check out clicked on the baguette icon, selected 1 item and put it in my bag. I then realised it had only charged me 25p and the one I had bought actually had a bar code and was priced at 30p.
I called the Sainsbury's assistant over, she cancelled the transaction, and I scanned it through and paid 30p. How honest is that
The barcode had fallen off my £1.10 large avocado at Tesco recently so I checked it on the menu. The self serve till rang up 65p but when I put it on the bagging side it clearly wasn't having any of it. The assistant didn't know what an avocado was and certainly wasn't in the mood to faff about undoing the transaction and then finding the right barcode to sort out the right price even though I told her what it should be. I tried to be honest but it seems the universe wanted me to have a cheap breakfast.I called the Sainsbury's assistant over, she cancelled the transaction, and I scanned it through and paid 30p. How honest is that
I did have a situation where Sainsbury's undercharged me for something at the regular checkout, I had two items and they only scanned one, and I walked out without saying anything. It was less than a £1.
I will rot in hell
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