sometimes people tell me I think too highly of people and am too naive.

I lost my purse on the way to the pub (before i'd had a drink!!)

A terribly nice person found it, went through the phonebook and eventuall got my brothers number and returned it to him with the 65 pounds still in it.

what is a reasonable reward to give him?- i've given him 20 pounds already but am worried this isn't enough- bottle of champagne,crate of beer, another 20 pounds....any advice

I know I would have done the same but i'm just really glad that there are good honest people out there and its made my day....

BIG SMILES

i think £20 is enough. I would not have expected anything because I would like to think if I had lost my wallet, someone would return it to me. Having said that my wifes bag with her purse in it was stolen by a couple of women in tescos on tuesday this week

That's is really nice to hear. My son left his wallet in the back of a taxi one evening last year. The taxi driver returned it the following day - cash card and money intact ! He was rewarded for his honesty.

Would have though that he would be very happy with £20.

That's a great story.

Twenty quid and a nice note / card. I'd be delighted with that!

:)

There is honest people about, I`m sure they will be more than happy with £20 reward.

This is really nice to read. I think £20 is fine & if you want a card saying how grateful you are. I would be pleased with that.

That's is really nice to hear. My son left his wallet in the back of a taxi one evening last year. The taxi driver returned it the following day - cash card and money intact ! He was rewarded for his honesty.

This is great but really we shouldn't be rewarded for our honesty.

I spotted that a bloke in town had dropped a wad of £20 notes out of his back pocket. I shouted him, he didn't hear, I picked them up, ran after him and handed them to him.
He tried to give me £20 for my honesty and I was mortified and refused.

I understand that the owner was grateful but to reward someone for their honesty is almost like rewarding them for not keeping it, like there was a chance they might!:hihi:
My conscience wouldn't let me keep anything that wasn't mine, I'm no saint by any means but it's just plain WRONG to keep something that isn't yours. IMO.

Yeah I aggree - £20 and a nice note is plenty - I'd be pleased with that anyway!

think £20 is enough

I know what you mean and it's winderful when someone does something to reassure you that there truly are decent, honest people out there. I'd send a lovely hearfelt thank you note/card. This person is obviously a decent sole and will appreciate your kind words more than any gift.

money has no value to that person or wud have kept it ur thanks will be more than enough unless he is single and u let him take u out for a drink lol

I have a good faith story as well, I was in the sandwich shop on South Road at lunchtime buying a cheese sandwich, when I came to pay the woman asked for £1.55, and I'd only got £1.40 on me cos that's what their sandwiches usually are, but this woman who was in the queue said "oh I'll give you the 15p difference", "are you sure?" I said, but she insisted, very good of you dear! :D

Anyway I went back to Mum's car, told her what had happened and she gave me 15p to see if the lady was still there to pay her back, and she was.

Anyway thanks love for saving me with the 15p, it's appreciated.

i have a story like this, i was in town and had actually dropped my one pound i was going to use for bus fare home, and not knowing this until ide actually got on the bus made a bit of an idiot of myself turning out my pockets and handbag, then a woman behind me leaned over and paid for me, saying she had been in a simular situation a few days previously!

I thought that was extremely kind of her thinking how many "can i have 80p for my bus fare home" drug addicts there is around town!

A few years ago I was on holiday in Australia and found a mobile phone on the street. I looked through the phone for "home" and called it - left a message on the answerphone saying i'd found the phone etc and to ring it to organise picking it up. Later on a woman phoned saying it was her husbands phone and that he was a courier and had dropped it whilst cycling through the city. She was so grateful for me actually answering it and offering to give it back. Anyway, I left it behind reception at the hotel I was staying at, and explained to the receptionist that the owner would be coming to pick it up.

Later that evening when I got back from sight seeing, I returned to my room to find a box of chocolates and a card saying thankyou for my honesty, and just how grateful the guy was to have his phone back. He'd asked the receptionist to put them in my room. Made me feel very good about myself :-)

I really don't think it's necessary to give any more than you have done already - the gesture of thanks has already been given - any more probably won't mean as much.

I found a phone in the back of a taxi on "Mad Friday". It rang, I answered, and it was the guy who owned the phone. I arranged to meet him the next day and gave it him back & he gave me a fiver for my trouble. I tried to refuse but he literally forced it on me!! I was embarrassed to take it as I assumed that any decent person would do the same thing (though nobody has returned any of the contents from my bag that was stolen in London at the weekend :( )

In the 5hrs or so that I had his phone, his girlfriend phone 24 times and left 11 voicemail messages - In my drunken wisdom I decided that it would be best NOT to answer the phone as I'm sure she'd have gone even crazier had her boyfriends' phone been answered by a strange lass!!! :hihi:

a few years ago my son had been walking round our local sunday market when he had seen someone walking ahead of him drop something out of his pocket, by the time my son got to where it was and saw it was a mobile the man had gone. my son (about 11 years old at the time) brought it home to me to see what i thought he should do with it. When I went through the address book one number was listed as "the missus" so i tried that number and his wife was in the car with him, he had realised he had lost his phone but thought there was little point in coming back to try and find it. We arranged to meet and I gave him it back. He gave me a tenner for my son as he was so pleased he'd been honest and wanted to encourage him to be honest again in the future.

Lorraine

I wonder if this lot...
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=299997

Would be happy with a £20 reward? :hihi:

I lost my phone in the back of a cab before and the taxi driver brought it to where he'd dropped me off when he had another job in the area - I gave him £10. I should think £20 would more than suffice.

I had my phone returned to me a few days after I dropped it in Graves Park - the bloke even drove to meet me in my neighbourhood as he said it was too cold and dark for me to walk to his house!

I gave him a bottle of wine as a thank-you as it was all we had in the house - he went out of his way to help me out and I wanted to show it was really appreciated :thumbsup:

My OH was also left a bottle of beer after he let someone use our house phone when they were locked out - it gives a nice feeling all round x

If he wanted money, he would have kept the £65.

I once found £100 in cash (in a money-bag) in a local Morrisions on the floor. I didn't think twice and handed it in to the customer services desk, and the lady took my mobile number. Within a couple of hours, they rang me back to say that the lady had returned looking for the money and that she had "left me a little something". I popped back and she had left me £20, a bottle of wine and a lovely thank you card + short letter.

I was really chuffed with her jesture (I didn't hand it in for any personal gain). In the card she said that she had taken the £100 out of the bank earlier in the day as she was buying Christmas presents for her children - she couldn't thank me enough as money was really tight for her.

I know some would say "finders keepers" etc. but I handed it in as I have morals, it's how I was brought up and I would hope that someone would have done the same for me.

Glad you got your purse back and I'm sure he'll be equally pleased with your jesture. :)

I once found a mobile phone near the Arena (and it was a VERY expensive one). Traced the owner (who was a teenage girl) , went round their house to drop it off.

A man answered the door (her father I presume), I said I was the guy who'd found her phone, gave him the phone, he looked at it and said, "yeah that's hers" then shut the door in my face and went inside!!

Not even a thankyou!

I was not impressed.

I found someone's cat and they came round the day after picking it up with a bunch of flowers and a card (written as though from the cat). Made my day.

sometimes people tell me I think too highly of people and am too naive.

I lost my purse on the way to the pub (before i'd had a drink!!)

A terribly nice person found it, went through the phonebook and eventuall got my brothers number and returned it to him with the 65 pounds still in it.

what is a reasonable reward to give him?- i've given him 20 pounds already but am worried this isn't enough- bottle of champagne,crate of beer, another 20 pounds....any advice

I know I would have done the same but i'm just really glad that there are good honest people out there and its made my day....

BIG SMILES

I think you've kind of answered your own question - the person obviously doesn't want a reward as they just gave it back and took none of your money. It is a nice thing for someone to do though.

I was putting petrol in my car and dropped my phone which had very important numbers, stuck a bit for a while, hence dialed my number and someone answered told me the exact location to pick it up, very pleased and said a big thank you to that honest person.

Late last year my OH was out with a mate and found a driving licence, so on their way home took a slight detour (Crosspool) and posted it through his letterbox. Would love to have seen his face when he got home and found it on the doormat LOL