When I was in engineering school
I was walking across campus to a class when I found a dollar bill.

"Cool!" I thought as I picked it up.

Then I noticed another. And another.

Then I noticed that they had blown out of a dropped wallet under a car.

I picked them all up and opened the wallet. Inside was a couple hundred bucks, a couple of credit cards, a driver's license and a student ID.

Aww, fuck. This girl's gonna be freaking out.

I could take it to the campus security office and let them sort it out...

...yeah, and a bunch of cash would likely go missing.

Fuck.

I put the wallet in my pocket and took off my backpack and dug out paper and pen. I wrote: "Hi. I have your wallet- you dropped it under your car. Please call me at (804) 123-4567 so I can get it back to you." And I stuck it under the windshield wiper.

When I got home there was a message. After a bit of phone tag I agreed to meet her at one of the classrooms the following morning. I recognized her from her ID photos and handed her the wallet. She smiled and thanked me, then looked inside it- and her face lit up. "It's all here! All of it!" She pulled out a twenty and pushed it into my hand. "Thank you! Thank you!" And she hugged me before taking off.

That was one of my better finds, really...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 6 Nov 2008, 16:13, 7 replies)

I would...
...have at least demanded a hand-job.

Nah, only jesting - nice of you to give it all back like that - very few would have done the same I sadly feel.
(dchurch bah, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 16:20, closed)

This restores my faith etc etc
I have found a wallet in the past and handed it in (money and all) where it was claimed. People always think i'm mad when I tell them this.

I have friends who have found wallets and pocketed the cash before handing them in...WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE???

I would have refused the reward. I'm that much of a goody-goody.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 16:22, closed)

Was
she hot?
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 6 Nov 2008, 16:23, closed)

Sadly, no...
...she was about 5' 4" and around 300 lbs, a very rotund black girl with glasses.

And really I would have refused the twenty, but she ran off too fast.

Still, it made me happy for the rest of the day.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 6 Nov 2008, 16:29, closed)

How could she run fast weighing that much?
Was it more of an amusing waddle?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 6 Nov 2008, 17:00, closed)

It was
rather amusing to watch, as she had on heels as well. Kinda like watching someone carry a three-tier jello salad up the stairs...

nah, kidding. She just trotted off happily and I wasn't going to chase her down to hand back money. Besides, I was broke and wanted some lunch.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 6 Nov 2008, 17:05, closed)

Knock knock on the door late one Sunday afternoon
Outside were two German tourists. "Does Neil XXX live here?" Yes, but he's gone to Great Keppel Island for the weekend. Great Keppel was 30 miles away.

"We have found his wallet." They produced a sodden sea-smelling wallet full of swollen up notes.

Silly bugger had gone swimming with his wallet in a pocket. Typical.

These people had found his home in darkest suburbia in a strange town. Germans? I've never met a bad one.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 9:32, closed)