Honest People Still Exist

goz83 · 02-12-2012 12:59AM #1

So, I was just watching the end of a movie and I got a text from my secretarys company mobile to ask if I had a contact number for the owner of the phone, that it was found in Dessies bar. I text back explaining that I was the owner, that my secretary was the keeper. The lady then asked where I was and when I gave my Dublin post code, she said it couldn't be my phone, as the bar is in Cork. LOL

I text to say her partner is from Cork and to check my company website as proof, because both numbers are listed there and my secretary is now on the way to collect the phone. its an iphone 4s, so i'm glad it's not lost now. I do have the iphone lost app and logged in to check location and it was where she said it was. I offered a reward, but she declined and accepted gift vouchers instead for my practice, which i'm very happy to give as a thank you. Faith restored in the kindness of people in unlikely circumstances. I know I would return any lost item, but I know so many wouldn't.

Gee_G · 02-12-2012 01:01AM

goz83 wrote: »

So, I was just watching the end of a movie and I got a text from my secretarys company mobile to ask if I had a contact number for the owner of the phone, that it was found in Dessies bar. I text back explaining that I was the owner, that my secretary was the keeper. The lady then asked where I was and when I gave my Dublin post code, she said it couldn't be my phone, as the bar is in Cork. LOL

I text to say her partner is from Cork and to check my company website as proof, because both numbers are listed there and my secretary is now on the way to collect the phone. its an iphone 4s, so i'm glad it's not lost now. I do have the iphone lost app and logged in to check location and it was where she said it was. I offered a reward, but she declined and accepted gift vouchers instead for my practice, which i'm very happy to give as a thank you. Faith restored in the kindness of people in unlikely circumstances. I know I would return any lost item, but I know so many wouldn't.

Love hearing stories like this! You always hear too many stories about phone's being stolen etc. As you said above, faith restored in the kindness of people!

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 02-12-2012 01:01AM

What a touching Christmas tale.

Fair play to you and her!

Spiritual · 02-12-2012 01:01AM

You would have got it back earlier but I give my secretary the weekends off. :pac:

Larianne · 02-12-2012 01:03AM

She only gave it back coz it wasn't an iPhone 5.

phasers · 02-12-2012 01:03AM

now sack your secretary for incompetence.

Chuck Stone · 02-12-2012 01:04AM

Pics of hot secretary or GTFO.

Paddy Cow · 02-12-2012 01:40AM

goz83 wrote: »

So, I was just watching the end of a movie and I got a text from my secretarys company mobile to ask if I had a contact number for the owner of the phone, that it was found in Dessies bar. I text back explaining that I was the owner, that my secretary was the keeper. The lady then asked where I was and when I gave my Dublin post code, she said it couldn't be my phone, as the bar is in Cork. LOL

I text to say her partner is from Cork and to check my company website as proof, because both numbers are listed there and my secretary is now on the way to collect the phone. its an iphone 4s, so i'm glad it's not lost now. I do have the iphone lost app and logged in to check location and it was where she said it was. I offered a reward, but she declined and accepted gift vouchers instead for my practice, which i'm very happy to give as a thank you. Faith restored in the kindness of people in unlikely circumstances. I know I would return any lost item, but I know so many wouldn't.

I found a smartphone and returned it to the owner. Never offered me a reward though! Returned a wallet to someone a few years ago and got twenty quid. Sweet. I've lost loads of phones and wallets over the years and many times people have gone out of their way to return them to me so whenever I find anything I always try to return it.

jenniferalan · 02-12-2012 01:45AM

Was it your secretary that lost it? I'm lost!!!

areyawell · 02-12-2012 01:49AM

I would have keeping it. Turn off phone. Flash it and use it as normal

goz83 · 02-12-2012 01:50AM

jenniferalan wrote: »

Was it your secretary that lost it? I'm lost!!!

Yeah, she left it at a bar in her partners local watering hole.

goz83 · 02-12-2012 01:51AM

areyawell wrote: »

I would have keeping it. Turn off phone. Flash it and use it as normal

Karma

areyawell · 02-12-2012 01:54AM

goz83 wrote: »

Karma

No such thing

goz83 · 02-12-2012 01:58AM

areyawell wrote: »

No such thing

Knowing how to steal (yes, it's still theft if it doesn't belong to you) and wipe a phone shows me that you have a pretty pathetic view and that's karma in itself. The person who has returned my property will be getting over €1000 worth of services for doing the right thing. Christmas will be half sorted for her. Nuff said.

TheUsual · 02-12-2012 02:01AM

It's a trap, you go to collect your phone and they nick your car, wife and secretary.

Honestly, there is one born every minute !

TheUsual · 02-12-2012 02:05AM

I think....
The secretary killed Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cludo

Esel · 02-12-2012 02:21AM

TheUsual wrote: »

I think....
The secretary killed Colonel Mustard in the library with the lead piping.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cludo

Pretty bad that the library still has lead piping in the 21st century, tbh.

corktina · 02-12-2012 02:39AM

pedant head on...it's Dr Black that gets killed....

TheUsual · 02-12-2012 02:46AM

Esel wrote: »

Pretty bad that the library still has lead piping in the 21st century, tbh.

Lead piping wrapped in asbestos dust and uranium ore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#Health_problems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium#Effects_and_precautions

girl2 · 02-12-2012 02:48AM

Well - actually - my ex - is from cork. An he sure as hell isn't honest. He's a psychological liar come to think of it.

FYI.

And the irony - I'm one of the most honest people I know.

joydivision · 02-12-2012 02:50AM

cool story bro ,needs more dragons

chops018 · 02-12-2012 04:51AM

goz83 wrote: »

Christmas will be half sorted for her. Nuff said.

Alright there Tony Soprano.....

areyawell · 02-12-2012 05:03AM

chops018 wrote: »

Alright there Tony Soprano.....

get her half a selection box instead of a full one?

ShooterSF · 02-12-2012 05:25AM

goz83 wrote: »

Karma

Uck. I'd have returned the phone because it's the right thing to do but I hate people going on about karma and using it like a parent would use Santa or Hell around a naughty kid.

Glad ya got the phone back btw!

nice_very · 02-12-2012 05:58AM

someone told me once, that her dad, years ago found an envelope outside a bank containing 5k.. went into the bank with it and just as he was leaving the owner of the money came in, cashier recognised him and pointed out the man who had handed it in.. cue 20 quid reward, but the best part is, the finder went to buy smokes, bought a couple of scratch cards with the change of a tenner, and won 500 quid

Where To · 02-12-2012 06:35AM

I once found a grand a kept it.

Nothing bad ever happe

DEFTLEFTHAND · 02-12-2012 07:31AM

It's amazing that the OP has to state that honest people still exist, being honest is second nature to me as I was raised in a good family. It's only when I went out into the real that I saw how thing work. In my profession particularly I get lies by clients on a daily basis, the trick is to get them to speak straight before they go to court. A District Court Judge will rip a chancer to shreds which in turn embarrasses their solicitor.

tonycascarino · 02-12-2012 09:32AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's amazing that the OP has to state that honest people still exist, being honest is second nature to me as I was raised in a good family.

I agree. Is it not basic decency that if you find something that was lost and is not yours, that you try and find who it belongs to.

Scanlas The 2nd · 02-12-2012 09:42AM

Why do people think that there was more honesty in the past?

Mr. Manager · 02-12-2012 09:56AM

Some lady hit my car parked outside my house while she was slowing down to check the house numbers. She called into my house asking "who owns that silver car over there?" when I told her I did she became so apologetic and stated that she had hit my car.

We went out to have a look for any damage. There was minor scratches on the car. Nothing that it wasn't used to already. She insisted on giving me money to pay for the "damages" - despite there being very little of. She refused to leave without giving me money but I said to her that calling into me and being honest was more than enough.

Off she went anyways to the house she was looking for (road parallel to mine).

Later that day I headed off for a weekend of work in Waterford and when I came back on Sunday evening there was an envelope on the hall table with the title "To the owner of the silver car"

Turns out the lady had called back the following day and popped it in the letter box.

Inside was a very apologetic note and €350 in cash.

To this day, it's the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. Absolute lovely lady.

Tom_Cruise · 02-12-2012 10:17AM

Stealing a persons phone is like sleeping with your best friends woman -

nothing really wrong with it unless they find out.

Honest People Still Exist

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