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A few months back my daughters mobile was handed in at the local bus station .... they phoned my o/h to tell him it had been found.

When I went to pick it up I wanted to at least thank the driver concerned ...... but they wouldn't give me his name .... they said they couldn't possibly give out names like that so there was no way of thanking him.
Angel
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Poker Face 1898 Forum PostsToday at 22:46 (Edited: ) A few months back my daughters mobile was handed in at the local bus station .... they phoned my o/h to tell him it had been found. When I went to pick it up I wanted to at least thank the driver concerned ...... but they wouldn't give me his name .... they said they couldn't possibly give out names like that so there was no way of thanking him.

aww thats not right


well i didn't win the lottery
Aimee
You did the right thing Aimee whether you received appreciation or not. I once found a purse with money and keys in, can't remember how now but I found out a way of finding the person who it belonged to. Some hours later the father of the girl whose purse it belonged to turned up at our house, he offered me money as a reward as he said his daughter's keys were not only to her house but to her place of work and their loss could have caused so many problems but I refused to take his money, that was a few years ago. Earlier this year I lost my handbag, never happened to me before but I learnt what it feels like to lose something with so much personal stuff in. Next day I got a call from someone who found it, I was so relieved, they too wouldn't take my offer of reward, maybe it's true that what comes around goes around
Yellow Rose
Awww, well honesty's its own reward!

Perhaps the person answering the door was not involved in the loss and didn't feel the relief and the gratitude of it being found.  Obviously, still bad manners but hey.  Maybe the person who lost it was over the moon anyway but hasn't got the opportunity to thank you properly.

I saw this today:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl...new-york-taxi-honest

"New York cabbie tracks down owner of $21,000 left on back seat.  Mohammad Asadujjaman turns down reward after driving over 50 miles in search of Italian tourist who had left handbag behind"
FM
When we were on holiday in the States 3 years ago, my son found $800 in cash in a cabinet in our hotel room. We handed it into reception, and when we asked them later what had happened they said they had contacted the people who had stayed there before us and they said it was theirs - and they hadn't even missed it!! No thanks, nothing.
Made us a bit angry  - they are frickin lucky that the hotel can't have had very thorough cleaners as if a cleaner had found it they mightn't have passed it on to reception. Like you Aimee, a thank you would have been nice.
Moomin

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