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- fooler
Yesterday I made a conscious decision to actually go to the record store and buy a few cds to support my local record shop and a few small bands that I’ve liked for years. I haven’t bought an actually cd in months and usually just go out on the webs and find em or ask one of you for what I’m looking for. When I got home I couldn’t find my wallet! After a few frantic checks of my apt, driveway, garage and a call to the record store I figured it must have fallen out of my pocket on my ride home. Then just as I bolted out of my house to backtrack some random dude was walking up my steps with my wallet in hand. He said he found it 3 blocks away. I tried to give him the ten spot he had left in my wallet but he refused and just said “no man it’s karma”
- honest0
did he look like this?
- ********0
- mayo0
wow. It's so nice to hear that there's still honest and decent people. Glad you got your wallet back.
what cds did you get!?!?!?
- fooler0
The Thermals and The Hold Steady. Good thing I got my wallet back or I would have ripped off everything I could from those bands.
- CALLES0
no happy ending? the bastard!
- -sputnik-0
i feel warm and fuzzy all over after reading your story since something similar happened to me long ago.
warm and fuzzy. and squishy.
- davey_g0
What goes around, does come back around!
- TheBlueOne0
Yeah, I think there is Karma and stuff, but the currency always changes, the universe is always flipping it on you.
You might pay for something in apples and get paid back in snowflakes or something..it rewrds in the strangest, most unexpected ways.
- -sputnik-0
i absolutely comes around, but i never even think about that. i don't think about paying it forward, or getting something back...just be nice to people, help them however you can, give kindness. it's a much more pleasant way to live.
- -sputnik-0
"it" comes around. not "i".
sheesh
- Tara0
Ok, don't judge me on how retarded I am b/c I'm fully aware but I lost my wallet twice in 1 week. The first time it was stolen at a party but the 2nd time I was at a club and the hotel manager found it and kept it for me with all the money it. There are good people and there are morally challenged people. And I say morally challenged not thieves b/c if you put free money in front of people its hard for many to not give into the temptation to keep it. But I always like to think that there are more good people than bad.
- scransom0
also we're fairly prosperous, so $10 doesn't mean much to most people.. $10,000 on the other hand starts to get harder to return..
- -sputnik-0
my conscience would crush me if i kept a suitcase full of money which wasn't mine.
- Jaline0
I think everyone thinks about keeping large amount of money, even I would. However, I also make it a habit on a daily basis to realize how other people are feeling (walk a mile in someone's shoes, blah, blah), so eventually I'd think about the person who had lost the money...and I would be compelled to return it because I would want someone to return the money to me if I had lost that much. I'm not sure the two have to do with each other in today's world, but I still believe in karma.
- -sputnik-0
i hear u jaline. i used to be conflicted until someone returned a large amount of money to me which would've hurt badly to lose. they didn't have to, i'm sure they needed it more than i did, but they were honest. i never forgot it.
nobody's perfect and it sure is fun to think about finding a stack of cash somewhere ;)
- ********0
i did that once. it feels great. especially for the owner.
- fooler0
i shuck the dudes hand twice in 30 in 30 seconds
- -sputnik-0
lol @ fooler
a heartfelt thanks can be so much better than a reward