Guys I need your help

[Mr.AJ]

Didnt mean to post that above yet, Wanted to add onto it is it really worth the risk?.

Return the phone and save up to get yourself one. You'll feel better about it, You wont have to worry about any repurcussions(sp?) and you may even get a reward from the owner for returning it.

 

[stephen]

well

I found a cell phone one time at a gas station ,I was about to try and figure out who owned it when it rang,when I answered the phone it was a lady who was cussing me out,also threatening me I was like hey theres no need for all this and met up with her and returned it I even drove out of my way to do so! Even as bad as she talked to me I still returned her phone,why I really am not sure LOL:grin01:

 

[terry fielder]

maybe theyll b a reward and if its cash u can buy ur own phone. the lg chocolate isnt v good anyway

 

[bataco]

no it's not good and has a lot of problems =S

 

[kathylove]

I can remember finding a woman's purse in a shopping cart in a grocery store parking lot - happened about 16 years ago, I think. I immediately looked inside to see if there was a phone # or at least ID. Imagine my surprise when I found a bank envelope with $550 inside. I assume she probably just came from the nearby bank, having just cashed her paycheck. I found her telephone # in the phone book and reached her husband. It was his paycheck she had just cashed - there wouldn't have been anymore grocery shopping the next week without it! Needless to say, they were both really happy to meet me and get it back.

I sure would have enjoyed using the $550 for whatever I needed at the time. But I would have long since forgotten whatever I would have bought with it. Instead, I now have a warm feeling for a whole lifetime whenever I remember how happy those people were to get back their paycheck and other items in the purse. That payoff was well worth the "sacrifice" on my part.

A returned phone might not give you as BIG of a "warm feeling" as a week's paycheck returned. But it is all part of the same positive messages you send yourself, and will make you feel good when you remember it later. And as mentioned earlier, some info on that phone could be irreplaceable, and of great importance to the owner. So it COULD be just as important as a paycheck - there is no way for you to know.

 

[starsevol]

Yup, return the phone no question.
Not only is it the right thing to do, but cell phones are the most bacteria-laden things around!
If I have a cell phone, at least I'm dealing with my own germs and not the germs of a total stranger!

 

[wade]

Good things happen to good people. I believe that. Life is so much easier if you just keep it simple. I don't see a choice with the phone. There is only one possible action to be taken. No decisions to make.

 

[Roy Munson]

I'd put the phone in a sock, hit an old lady over the head with it, and steal her purse.

Silly thread...

 

[Mr.AJ]

I prefer a sack of doorknobs as my weapon of choice, Dean.

 

[bataco]

Dean that's the perfect solution! how can I never thought of it? I'm doing it right now

 

[mele2511]

I would keep it.... Infact i would keep anything i find because people would keep my stuff.

The way i look at it is that people should take better care of there stuff.

 

[Jrgh17]

Return it. By saying "someone would keep my stuff" you're actually INCREASING the chances that someone would take your stuff. It's a selfish, and frankly, quite dumb way to view the world.

It's all the butterfly effect. If you return this persons phone, they're going to think twice about returning something they find one day (belonging to another). That person will do the same, as will the person down the line.

However, if you keep the phone, that person will need a phone when they find someones wallet or phone. Instead of being motivated by your example, they would be pretty disillusioned. And when they don't return the item, so would the next person down the line. It's all a vicious cycle.