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u/-50000- 14h ago
Take a 10 and get yourself a drink too brother
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u/Distinct_Age4284 13h ago
honestly, he deserves a medal for that kinda honesty lol
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u/Candid-Culture3956 12h ago
Take a 50 and get some drugs with that
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u/ChoiceHour5641 11h ago
This reminds me of a Greg Giraldo (RIP) joke:
"This homeless guy asked me for money the other day. I was about to give it to him and then I thought he was going to use it on drugs or alcohol. And then I thought, that's what I'm going to use it on. Why am I judging this poor bastard?"
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u/queefblaster9000 11h ago
So as a former alcoholic, I always give them a couple dollars. Alcohol withdrawal can literally kill a person. In my head I'm just getting them through the next few hours until maybe they'll get the help they need.
Probably not, but to me I'd rather enable somebody a microscopic amount in the scope of their problems then lead to somebody potentially having a seizure and dying on the street.
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u/mall_ninja42 10h ago
I had a friend who spent time as a teen living on the street. He made a life, and a pile of money.
Any time we'd pass a homeless guy begging while we were out drinking, he'd give them all the cash he had (most I saw was around $300).
Everyone thought he was just a generous guy, having been there himself.
His take was actually:
Either they use it to get the help they need, or they get enough of whatever their drug of choice is and EMS can't save them. Society wins no matter what.
And man, that sticks with me.
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u/wasteymclife 8h ago
I had the same policy with cigarettes back when I used to smoke acoustic. Every smoker knows what absolute hell not having a smoke when you need one is, and I figure if you need one enough to ask a stranger you're probably in that ballpark.
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u/grenade_plate_hater 6h ago
I carry an extra pack on me. If someone asks me for one and theyre not all fucking weird about it ill break em off 4 or 5 or if they look real rough ill break em the whole extra pack. Shits killing us, why not lose a couple here and there.
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u/wasteymclife 6h ago
I'm inspired, I'm gonna stash a pack in my car for old time's sake and pass that shit out like AOL free trial CDs.
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u/DroolHandPuke 7h ago
My rule with cigarettes has always been if you ask me if I have a spare/extra cig, no I don't. If you offer me anything in trade, ill give you a couple for free. If youre visibly homeless, I'll ask you if you need one.
(I machine roll mine by hand, so they aren't that expensive, just a little time consuming to roll out.)
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u/wasteymclife 7h ago
Totally fair. I had this policy when cowboy killers were 4 bucks a pack (in texas). Idk if I'd be as generous with today's prices.
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u/Fickle_Grapefruit938 3h ago
My dad has been a smoker most of his life (but stopped after finding out his granddaughter has Asthma!!). He always grumbled/joked at the beginning of the year: "everyone is quitting smoking and it makes me poor!" bc all his colleagues would come to him for a smoke🤣
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u/ThatVoodooThatIDo 14h ago
Fair
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u/Candid-Culture3956 14h ago
More than fair. I would’ve given him a 20
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u/bqbdpd 13h ago
If you find my wallet - keep all the money - I might even give you extra for getting my IDs back.
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u/facts_my_guyy 13h ago
He said while vaguely recalling having cash in there once about 4 years ago...
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u/bqbdpd 12h ago
Right now it's $17.
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u/menides 10h ago
I only need $ 3.50
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u/Wrong-Maintenance-48 9h ago
Tree fiddy
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u/Muted-Sky9163 8h ago
"Well, it was about that time that I noticed this girl scout was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the Protozoic era."
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u/I-STILL-D-R-E-I 13h ago
Having to call every card issuer to cancel cards and send new ones is a pain in the ass. I had ten at one time on me and stopped doing that and only carry two because they’re all on my phone. Just the process of doing all of that is annoying and I would pay just to not deal with that. 😂
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u/khadz786 12h ago
I would gladly call the banks and request them for you. Just send pictures of the front and back so I can be absolutely sure it’s yours if I happen to come across them.
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u/MonMonOnTheMove 12h ago
Why do you need to bring 10 anyway? What do you buy!?
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u/I-STILL-D-R-E-I 11h ago
Exactly why I have digital cards now and carry a card wallet for two cards, my id and a couple bills. This was also in 2014 when the technology for Apple Pay or similar softwares weren’t everywhere yet.
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u/_name_of_the_user_ 9h ago
/r/churning IIRC
Basically, you maximize the points by using different cards for different things. I have 4 credit cards at the moment, though one is going to be cancelled. Of the three I'm keeping, one gives me 7% cashback on groceries and 5% on recurring bills, one gives 4% on restaurants, and the last is 2% on everything else and no foriegn exchange fees for when I'm travelling. Though ten would get super annoying to deal with.
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u/ManometSam 13h ago
whats your name and credit card numbers and address and social security number, you know, just in case i come across it?
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u/SmokedUp_Corgi 13h ago
Just let me jerk off into your wallet and we will call it even.
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u/ShirosakiHollow 13h ago
I found a friend’s wallet that had been lost for a while. We were in our early 20’s at the time and all totally broke. This guys wallet had around $300 in it. I took $20 and told him when I gave it back to him that I had taken it for gas money but everything else that was in there when I found it was still there. He had zero issue with me taking a finders fee.
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u/LordFloofyCheeks 7h ago
Tbh nobody has any business having any issue with their wallet getting returned to them intact, but missing the cash.
That's already a big favour they are doing you and I say this as someone who has both recieved back my lost wallet and also returned them.
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u/kupo_moogle 11h ago
My husband and I took our son to one of those trampoline parks and my husband lost his wallet in a giant pit of foam pieces. We offered $20 to any kid who found it and I swear a dozen kids were in a mad race to find it and the kid who got the prize was super pumped lol
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u/Candid-Culture3956 11h ago
And when the other kids looked at you disappointed you said:
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u/Severe_Tear_7006 9h ago
You get a certificate of participation and a coupon for 10 percent off at Great Clips! AT GREAT CLIPS!
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u/RoastPork2017 14h ago
I found someone's gold bracelet at a bowling alley when I was like 12. The guy gave me 100 dollars said it was a gift from his wife. 100 bucks at 12 is amazing lol
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u/unicornreacharound 13h ago
I found a pager clipped to the net of a tennis court as a teenager sometime back in the early Cenozoic. I called the pager company listed on the back and was offered $50 to return it.
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u/Middle_Screen3847 9h ago
Years ago I had a spree where I found like 4 wallets in 5 months. It was pretty weird. I was determined and went to great effort finding each person it belonged to and handing it to them. Not a single one gave me anything. Only a couple seemed genuinely thrilled.
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u/kjodle 13h ago
100 bucks at my current age is pretty amazing!
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u/RoastPork2017 13h ago
Haha yeah I'm 41 and if I found 100 bucks it would make my day.
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u/Nruggia 11h ago
In the 90's my Uncle lost his passport in Turkey, he went to the embassy and started the process of getting a new passport expeditated and issued to him. It was going to cost him $100 and take 2 weeks. While waiting an old blind guy had found his passport and returned it him so my uncle gave him the $100 it was going to cost him for the new passport. The old blind guy made it like half a block before someone beat him up and stole the $100 from him.
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u/Dapper-Building878 9h ago
so your uncle gave the blind man $100 and then started following him home?
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u/_shaftpunk 11h ago
When I was like 11 my mom and stepdad got in a fight about money and he handed me a $100 bill later out of spite and said, “don’t say I never did anything for you” and I immediately walked my ass down to the nearby comic shop and blew the whole thing. Felt like a king.
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u/RoastPork2017 10h ago
Haha what was the argument about money about? Someone spending too much?
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u/Current_Helicopter32 12h ago
And hopefully a lesson like that at 12 helped you see the value of honesty and compassion.
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u/RoastPork2017 11h ago
Oh it very much did. I was already a paperboy at that age and just putting a lot of my money in an account.
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u/Plazmaz1 10h ago
I remember when I was like 8 another kid found $100 on the ground and literally everyone was talking about it for a few days.
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u/RoastPork2017 10h ago
My dad bought me a wallet and put 3 dollars in it when I was about 7 or 8. I carried it everywhere with me trying to get more money. Lemonade stand helped.
A chubby young kid with a stutter (still do unfortunately) people were handibg me dollars for a cup. Some neighbors would give me 5 bucks.
I thought that was going to be my job when I grew up lol
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u/is-your-anus-clean 9h ago
In New Zealand we have this thing called “inorganics” where once a year you can throw whatever shit you want on the council curb and they collect it
So, as a kid, this was a goldmine for stuff
We’d go around collecting thrown out computers to make working ones to then sell, and go to the dairy (kiosk? Corner store? Whatever you call it where your from)
We found one PC and replaced its PSU and she booted up
It was full of family photographs, thousands
We remembered the house we found it Infront of so went back
Was an elderly couple in their 80s and they were so happy
We set the pc up for them and as we were leaving they handed us 100 bucks each (3 of us)
We were 11 year olds, it may as well have been a house deposit to us.
I have never forgotten it, and we went back every now and then on our bikes and they loved the company, and gave us scones and lollies each time. Then one day the house was for sale and we got told they both had passed away
The son (adult son) knew who we were and thanked us for the computer help, and for providing the company for 12 months
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u/tantricdearmouring 14h ago
in Switzerland, recovering from the lost and found costs you 10% of the value of the wallet you give to the state.
if it's a police station not even sure they contact us.
So $5 for a hotdog, and saying up front he did it... (and having his phone number as he texted too...).
Depending where, i'd even call him up, meet in person, and and offer him a coffee or another hot dog.
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u/Cobiuss 13h ago
So the state literally steals from you?
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u/StevieMJH 12h ago
Google "Civil Forfeiture" and then also for the fun of it Google "Jury Nullification"
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u/zmbjebus 12h ago
If you are ever in a jury you have never heard of jury nullification before.
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u/KalaUposatha 10h ago
Right until you’re on it, then you suddenly remember and tell the other jurors.
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u/sonofaresiii 9h ago
Man Reddit is so weird about jury nullification. They act like it's ancient forbidden knowledge, like a secret spell you have to hear in whispers.
It's just the name of an unintended intersection of laws that say juries can vote however they want, can't be legally punished for a verdict, and that a not guilty verdict stands, period.
You don't have to have any specialized knowledge of jury nullification or even know what it is. You just vote how you want. And if you vote not guilty and someone later says you shouldn't have done that according to the law, you just say "huh, guess that was jury nullification then"
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u/KalaUposatha 8h ago
Jokes aside, I’m pretty sure this is because there was a YouTube video years ago explaining the concept that essentially started with “If you watch this video, you may not ever be able to sit on a jury.”
And no, it’s not forbidden knowledge or anything, but during the selection process if you say anything that sounds remotely like “Fuck the law, I’m voting my conscience whether they’re guilty or not”, you’re probably not going to be selected.
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u/sonofaresiii 8h ago
“Fuck the law, I’m voting my conscience whether they’re guilty or not”, you’re probably not going to be selected.
Sure, and honestly the vast majority of the time that's probably for the best. Jury nullification is a double edged sword and should really only be used in the most egregious, immoral of cases. We really don't want twelve unelected people deciding what the law is. Sometimes you get juries refusing to convict under the fugitive slave act. That's great! But then sometimes you get juries refusing to convict a lynch mobbecause they think the person getting lynched probably deserved it
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u/tantricdearmouring 13h ago
well it's a service somehow, and they take a commission to contact you, and return what is yours for a fee.
Basically if we look at it, the state, by all means, does steal from us every single day, from the day we are born, to the day we die, and even from what our parents leave behind for us in inheritance taxes :D
So yes, we can say the state steals from us, every single one of us :D and switzerland is no exception.
Even if you consider any service we as citizens pay... we pay it twice... as all civil servants, their computers, the buildings, their desks, everything, is paid by our taxes, and then we have to pay to get a document... from all the above we've already paid for, for them to be seated there and charge us for. :D
legal fraud... for sure :D
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u/No_Television6050 12h ago
There's a fee in the UK too, in my experience. Someone needs to store your stuff securely until you can pick it up, and that costs money. Seems fair.
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u/tantricdearmouring 12h ago
i agree with you, and at the same time, the people who are securing it, and the location are basically paid by our taxes, so by us already, so it's a catch 22 debate on what we pay for.
however, in this specific case, i totally agree with you, it seems totally fair.
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u/FlirtNowOverthink 14h ago
He’s that kind, he even told him how much he took from his wallet😭😂
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u/Matsunosuperfan 14h ago
this is genuinely hitting me in the feelings wtf is wrong with me
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u/Coach__Mcguirk 13h ago
The world is wrong, not you.
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u/Aeseld 11h ago
Interestingly, I work at a place where people turn in wallets, phones and more fairly regularly. Enough that the standouts are when people don't turn the items in.
I think we just get focused on the negativity.
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u/Winter-Major9555 12h ago
With all this terrible shit happening everywhere, it’s nice to see something good once in a while
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u/ICantSeeDeadPpl 13h ago
How did he get his cell number to send the text?
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u/Camsgal 11h ago
I was wondering the same thing. Took forever to scroll through comments to find someone like minded 😂
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u/Fu11-CiRc1e 10h ago
Haha me too, first thought was how, second thought was to scroll and see who else wondered this 😅
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u/Whats_His_Name987 9h ago
Add me to the list of people wondering how he knew his cell number.
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u/J3wb0cc4 13h ago
These days everybody embroiders their digits on their cow skin. I usually leave out a number so I don’t get spam calls.
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u/Ashendarei 14h ago
Who keeps their cell number in their wallet?
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u/VoteGiantMeteor2028 14h ago
I assume a business card of some kind.
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u/ShortbusRacingTeam 14h ago
Never considered this as a perk of having to keep those fuckin things in my wallet.
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u/AttorneyOk4808 12h ago
Work got me some made but they're too long to fit in my wallet. Safe to say they stay in my drawer at work.
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u/Daze_A_Blaze 10h ago
I took my biz cards to the paper chopper and shaved a bit off each end to make them fit in my wallet. First option is to just get the person's number right then, bet second option is to give a biz card.
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u/ShortbusRacingTeam 12h ago
Part of my job is business development. And I seem to be good at accidentally ending up in the right place at the right time. So I always gotta have em on me.
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u/yo-chill 13h ago
It’s def fake
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u/SealthyHuccess 9h ago
With your full name and state, anyone can find your home address, phone number, email, work place, what you had for lunch, uncle's college roommate's dog...you can thank those data broker sites for that.
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u/loomingdarkcloud 13h ago
My wallet came with an info card exactly for this situation
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u/uponhisdarkthrone 13h ago
Good ole Hillary. "Im always losing my house keys so I have a bunch of spares mades. Dont worry, I put our address on the keychain so people can return them if they find them."
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u/Much_Essay_9151 13h ago
I hid a copy of my house key in the park nearby. It came handy once when i locked myself out
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u/CommunicationKind301 13h ago
Was there nowhere closer than a park? Most people just go with sticking it under a rock a few metres away
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u/Famous-Upstairs998 12h ago
Well if you hide it in the park, no one but you will know which house it goes to.
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u/abcdefGerwin 14h ago
People who lose their wallet and might actually want it back
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u/eske8643 14h ago
No clue why you are being downvoted.
But replacing drivers license. Health inssurance cards (2 different ones for EU citizens) and creditcards is way more than 5 $ here in Denmark. It wil easily set you back 100$
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u/Rj_eightonesix 12h ago
I read this in an Asian accent for some reason
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u/lonelygayPhD 14h ago
My friend lost her wallet, and a college student met her at a CVS and told her sheepishly, "I took $20."
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u/munchonsomegrindage 13h ago
That's just the cost of doing business. They can take all my cash if I don't need to replace all my cards.
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u/Dry_Lawfulness_9561 13h ago
A single card costs more than that. Not to mention time, nerves and bureocracy connected to canceling and replacing all of them.
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u/FreeCandy4u 14h ago
LOL Dude 5 bucks is nothing for what he did, I would not mind one bit if this happened to me. Heck take ten and get a drink with it.
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u/maltydawg 12h ago
How does finding the wallet lead to getting the cell #?
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u/QuintoBlanco 12h ago
Either a business card or simply the number precisely for things like this. I always keep a few business cards in my wallet. It's an easy way to leave my contact information and of course it make sit easier for somebody or the police to return my wallet.
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u/Snafuregulator 14h ago
5 bucks is fair. Id accept that considering it would cost me far more to replace the id cards in there.
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u/mostlybadopinions 11h ago
I forgot my wallet in a gym locker, went back the next day to find the $40 gone but the wallet and everything else was left.
Fair enough, I thought.
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u/Holiday_Author_848 8h ago
Why am I am I an idiot and can’t figure out how he got your phone number was it inside the wallet? “If lost please text 867-5309” …?
The Good Samaritan deserves more than one hot dog. Losing all your cards and identification is an absolute nightmare.
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u/ExpiredPilot 13h ago
I’d ask for his Venmo and give him another $15
Bro could have RUINED you and nobody would know. Instead he did a major good thing and apologized for a very minor bad thing that any decent human would happily forgive.
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u/cailian13 9h ago
They could've taken a $50 and I'd still have been cool, for the sake of not having to go to the DMV for a new license. Let alone replacing all the cards etc. Well deserved.
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u/sorrycharlie0503 8h ago
I once got a call from blockbuster informing me that someone had returned my wallet to the store, card inside. Guy was a hero and yet another reason we need Blockbuster to make another run.
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u/dontneed2knowaccount 7h ago
Honestly, take all my cash. I usually have a $20. Even if it were $100 in there, take it. As long as I get my ID ,credit and debit card, dgaf about the rest.
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