Yesterday I found someone’s iPhone 14 Pro on the side of the road. Front and back glass were smashed, but the screen and cameras were fine.
Then, 4 hours later, I found someone’s money clip on the ground with a couple hundred dollars in it, and an ID card from Louisiana…
The phone is back in its owners hands, and he was so grateful that he insisted on giving me some money for finding and returning it. I told him “naw, I don’t want money, I would want someone to return my phone too”, but he just held his hand out with authority and said “I must!” And handed me some money. I put it in my pocket without looking at it, cause that’s what you do when someone tips you, only to discover when I got home that he gave me a hundred dollar bill. No way would I have accepted $100 had I known! I thought it was like a $20.
So now I feel bad because I accepted money from a stranger, and also I cannot contact this person whose money clip I found…fuck
So here’s the conundrum… I wanna turn it in, but if I take it to the police, they’re gonna take one look at the Louisiana ID, take the cash, and pitch the rest into the garbage. Plus, if YOU lost your money clip, would YOU go to the police lost and found? I sure wouldn’t. I’d just cancel my credit cards and count it as a loss…
What would you do????
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