I was with my mother the other day and went to the store. She had previously bought some cards and when she got home, she realized an extra card was stuck to the card she bought. She took it back to the store. The cashier was going to give her a refund but she told her she was never charged for it. The cashier was taken a back by it.

Would you have done the same? Do you know people that wouldn't?

Yep and yep.

took me a couple of seconds to realize there is no "like" button here lol

Yeah, I've returned things I haven't been charged for. A cashier once didn't ring up a bread maker I was purchasing. When I got home I realized this and called the store. They let me mail in a check which was nice because I had tiny babies at the time and going anywhere was a real hassle.

I went to the bank one day to deposit 400.00. I was offered a loan while I was there and due to the circumstances... I had a semi melt-down. As the teller was doing his deposit paperwork..he had me talk to a loan officer who instantly approved a loan that I would have benefited from three days prior. My melt down continued.
That happened on a Thursday. On Sunday night I realized I had the 400.00 in my wallet that I was suppose to hand the teller that Thursday. He had given me a receipt that I made the deposit.

My heart dropped. I imagined how much trouble that poor guy had at the end of the day when his box was short. The following Monday was a holiday. On Tuesday I went in and talked to the manager and handed him the money and told him what had happened. He was very grateful. He told me he couldn't imagine anyone doing what I had done that day by returning the money.

I guess I am one of them people. Honesty... if I do not stick to it...it will eat me up.

In my town cashiers don't take tips. I want to leave the dimes, nickles and pennies for them, but they say it would only get them into trouble if they accepted, coz they would not balance at the end of the day.

I returned a few things to a GoodWill store a few times that I walked out with by mistake. It's hard to tell what's yours and what belongs to another in a second hand shop. So then the cashier started to try to charge me for things that I had walked in with. This developed into a joke, and we still laugh about it.

I don't know if I would return a diamond tiara that belonged to Peter Romanoff's wife. I would probably be charged with theft over, knowing the police.

Yes, I am becoming more honest, insofar as not committing crime against personal or corparate wealth. But it hadn't always used to be so. In my youth I'd keep the occasional penny or dime that the cashier gave me, and if I had found a wallet, I'd keep it. Now, in my fifties, I return wallets to the police.

Am I more honest? More empathetic? Maybe, but that's not the reason. The reason is that I have less of a future now. I am not building for anything financially extravagant, I am not planning trips, vacations, marriages, kids, mortgages. I am very well off in terms of my income and spending habits. I live under the poverty line, or not much above it, but my needs that keep me satisfied are very basic and financially feasible for my level of income.

So I am hardly any more honest, but I need much less, even psychologically. "Greed be gone," he said, and it is gone.

If it was the Ace of Hearts, your mom did the wrong thing. This card could have been an Omen, a foretelling of one of the great loves in the history of humanity to happen in her life.

If it was a credit card, fine, she did the right thing. God knows I returned a lot of credit cards. You know, over-the-limit, expired, compromised. You name it, I returned it.

yes and yes.. But did not couple of times as a child. Lol

Yes and Yes!

It is a crede I live By.

I expect Integrity from the people I let into my life.

I despise Hypocracy.

What would I be if I had no Integrity Myself??

I refuse to be.....That!!!

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i would do the same in this case . return what is not mine

I know those who wouldn't. In most cases I would certainly do the same, though I will admit to there having been some exceptions. Primarily when I thought the store took advantage of me in some other way. Then it's oh well, pay back is a *****.

the card I would have returned, yes, but probably waited for a time when I was going there anyway as it is a small item

the bank deposit - immediately ASAP

Well, I was at Arbys and they made a mistake with my order, so they gave me a free turnover for the trouble. They gave me the wrong sandwich so I gave them the one back and kept my fries, when they brought me the correct sandiwch, they gave me an extra fries as well. I did give them back the extra sauce I did not want, but I kept the extra fries.

They can give the sauce to someone else, but they would have thrown out the fries, otherwise I would have given them back as well.

I've done it before, don't see why I wouldn't again.

Of course I know people that wouldn't...Honesty is a dying breed; sure, we all say we value it, but my experience has shown me that very few of you really do.

Being honest has its own reward. In my profession I have found many purses on shopping center rooftops. I have driven many miles to return a purse to its owner. Once I found a pocket book under a house. A burglary had occurred in the area a month before. There was a very expensive cell phone in it. It belonged to my boss lady's neighbor. I left it with my boss lady. The owner got it back and left a message for me to stop at her house for something. I never went there. I was happy that she got it back. That was reward enough. Hooray for the honest people. I wish we were a majority.

they probably intended for you to have both because, you are correct, in the restaurant business anything that has been served or given to the customer has to be thrown away

so these extra fries??? you aren't willing to share those????

I always try to do the right thing. Integrity is important to me and Karma is a biotch .

I once was down to my last $20 so I went to Wal-Mart to buy dinner. I spent $17.86. I used online of those self check outs. it gave me back two tens instead of two ones fir change. I turned to the lady who worked their and said you need to fix this. She was amazed I gave the money back.

So...correct me if I am misreading this ...

Yellow roses hot mom has extra credit cards to dish out to her cabanas boys.....

Not seeing the downside......returning them is just ....dumb.

I did saved you sum, but they got eated. :(