My experience today. You find a $20 bill on the floor at Aldi's. Do you keep it, or give it to an employee?
@slapout
Buy groceries for someone.
@slapout My experience working for a chain store is that the cash will make its way up the food chain to management, who will pocket it. So, exercise in futility.
@slapout I always avoid McDonald's and its environs.
l lost a $20 bill (hole in jeans pocket) and it was all the money I had for 10 days. I was desperate. Just transferred to new college. No meal plan yet. My mom just left to visit my dad overseas. i went back to the grocery store to talk to the manager. Tears ensued. She gave me a $25 gift certificate. Ten days later i had my bank accout and went ti pay her back. She told me had once lost a $10 bill (she laughed/ it was years ago) & someone helped her. She told me to help another.
@slapout In the UK the law requires that the finder "makes a reasonable attempt to locate the owner" so handing it in is the easiest way to do that.
If I were hungry enough, I might just keep it though.
My first instinct was to look around for someone who might have lost it, then someone who might be in need.
When those options failed, I envisioned the young @QueenOfEverything, and handed it in.
More so in these times, I try for at least one "pay it forward" item a day, against all odds. Yesterday it felt like I batted .333, but will try again today, with maybe a few more attempts.😣
Truthfully, if I had not had the traumatic $20 loss in my college days… if I saw a bill on the ground…. i would look around to see who might have
dropped it- and then kept it. But that one experience changed my life and compels me to turn money in…. just bills not coins . “Pay it forward” is a good way to live! ✨💙✨
Well, I'm going to take this as hope for the future.
But, I warn you, stay out of a McDonald's drive-thru. It will destroy your faith in humanity.😉