Good job sir, it makes one feel right with the world.
Once I walked into my local bank, no customers, the girls were yakking at each other. I notice a stack of bills on the floor in front of a teller window, I picked them up, coulda stuck them in my pocket, this was way befoe security cameras. I asked them how found money worked, turn it in there and if unclaimed I get to keep it. OK, I'm honest and would llike to think others would do the same.
Turned out to be one of the towns richest and lesser liked fellow.
He owned many business buildings leased to others and a big strip mall outside the main gate of the Army base. His pawn shop was the 1st one eyes right, leaving. He gave many a GI $20-25 bucks for guns worth much more. I know they chose to do it.
A friend and I made a trip by there once a week to look over the guns. He had used guns priced at exactly new prices. We eventually backed off to every month or so. He wanted to go and in we went. The owner knew me and my Dad very well, he used to fish with us and come up to fish in our farm ponds. He wouldn't cut me a nickle on the guns he took out of pawn.
I said hello, he said, Hello. I expected a thanks for turning in my 4 hundred bucks. Nope, he remained quiet. Not happy I said I heard you dropped some money on the bank floor, how'd you get back?
He was just so slick, said he got it back by going back to the bank and demanding it. I said what if no one turned it in, you may have dropped it on the way to your car or business. He said he would have made the bank pay up for shorting him, but it was counted, how could they short you?
I grew tired of egging him on and told my buddy who knew what happened time to go. Never went back.
I did not like him, he was not a nice person, but I knew I did the right thing for me. What goes around comes around, a few weeks later my ex took my paycheck, forged my name and cashed it. She put it on top of the car and drove off, a guy and his wife saw it and picked it up, they spent some time calling around to find out who she was and where she lived. I answered the phone during my grilling of my ex, thought it was like other times, she went out and blew it on scratch cards. I think the call saved me jail time.
They brought it by the house. It would have been a hungry 2 weeks.
That gentleman and his wife did the right thing for their souls too.
Faulkner, sir I admire you. Lost husband, needs money and you show up like an angel on duty. Both she and you will feel good for a long time.