<p>It’s been a beautiful day here in Franklin, Tennessee, so I took my filthy-beyond-belief car to the local car wash and splurged on the ‘Super Sparkle’ wash. I went inside to read the paper while I waited on my car, and after a few short minutes, the lady who vacuumed my car rushed up to hand me something she had found in my car … a $100 bill! I asked her if she was sure it came from my car and while nodding her head intensely, I suddenly remembered that my daughter, who had received several $100 bills from her grandparents for Christmas had been very upset several weeks ago when she was counting out her money in the car (on the way to the bank) and realized she was missing $100. I just couldn’t believe it. I went to the front to pay for my car wash and told the manager how lucky she was to have such an honest woman working for her. She told me the entire family works there and they are the best bunch of people she has ever had. She went on to tell me they had also found a gift card holder that I thought was long lost. I had searched for it right after Christmas as I had received many gift cards during that time. I was thrilled to get in to my nice clean car with a $100 bill for my daughter and my gift cards (in excess of $200) and drive to the bank to take out a $20 bill and reward Blanca! Yes, she could have been $300+ richer, but she was so honest and sweet and she appeared to be as happy to reunite my daughter with that $100 as I was. She even tried to refuse the $20, but I was having none of it. It just never hurts to remember that honesty is always the best policy. :)</p>
<p>What a day…what a good post.</p>
<p>I volunteer to wash your car next.</p>
<p>SplashMom~</p>
<p>Wow!!! We all need need these faith-restoring stories once in awhile, huh??? How wonderful that it should happen to such a nice person—YOU! I’ll bet your daughter will be SO thrilled and relieved! </p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Sometimes people don’t want to take a reward no matter how much we try and give it, so I have gotten a gift certificate to a store and mailed it to the person saying I wanted to give a reward to and say, hah, now enjoy my thank you!!! </p>
<p>I have to say, I do believe in Karma, and it may not always be odvious, but what goes around…</p>
<p>Last year, on a trip to visit Middlebury, I got stuck during mud season. A farmer halped pull me out and refused any reward. The next day, a gift basket appeared on his stoop.</p>
<p>Good for you, Splashmom, for rewarding such admirable behavior!</p>
<p>So often efforts like this go without tangible rewards. In this day and age, I don’t think it’s sufficient to say “Thanks, don’t you feel good about yourself” because the opposite message (me first) is so widespread in the mass media.</p>
<p>Where is the honesty in dating? I took this girl out spent $50 on dinner, $20 for a movie on Valentine’s Day, along with a $15 box of chocolate covered grapes. Then we talk on the phone, she gets a little sexual (FINALLY! I think) then she abruptly hangs up on me, and never calls again or answers my phone calls! Now I am out $85 for two one second good night kisses. This forced me to institute a no more than $10 spending limit on the first date, and the second date, unless there is some HONESTY and COMMUNICATION from the woman. I am beginning to really dislike dating again!</p>
<p>Wow, Joev! It looks like you’re looking for a prostitute, rather than a date. Dinner and a movie aren’t an investment for what will come later in the evening. I sure hope the men I date don’t view things that way or they’ll be hung up on as well…and I’ll be happy to be HONEST and COMMUNICATE that with them at any time.</p>
<p>As for the original story, I always love to hear things like this. It restores your faith that there are good people in the world. I used to teach in an elementary school in an extremely poor area. Approximately 95% of our students were on free and reduced lunch. Two years in a row I had kids from one particular family. On the first day of school both years, their mom came by the room and asked if any of the kids had come without supplies (which they commonly did). She would go out and buy school supplies for any kids that came without them. Now, she lived in the same neighborhood and probably had no more spare money than any of the other parents but yet this was important to her. Each year her question made me feel like this $100 bill story made me feel today.</p>
<p>While sweeping up at his fast food job, my kid found a stone–either a diamond or cz (is there a way to tell by looking?) not very big. We talked about what he should do–tell manager? Put ad in local paper? (“item found at X, call to identify.”)
My son thought the person who lost this would not know where it was lost, restaurant is on the highway, lots of non-local customers, so ad probably wouldn’t help. His attitude: people lose stuff all the time, just bad luck. My attitude: if I lost the stone from my engagement ring, I’d be so happy to get it back. . .Meanwhile, this stone is sitting on his dresser. (Maybe son thinks he’ll have it made into a ring for the “lucky girl”–about 10 years from now?) I guess we’ll take it to a store to find out if it’s “real.” I’ll feel less guilty if it’s not. Any suggestions? What would you do?</p>
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It was two seperate dates, and I could care less what happens, its just the fact that she didn’t CALL ME and she won’t answer my CALLS! What does a guy have to get a girl to take his calls? I would have no problem spending whatever on the first couple dates if I knew that eventually it was going somewhere. I must have missed something, but don’t females want a clean guy who is marriage minded?</p>
<p>YOu might look for lost ads in the paper? I really don’t know where you would start looking for the owner- at least you should tell the manager so that if anyone comes in looking for it the shop has an idea of what they are talking about.
My D just lost her cellphone out of our car, probably in the hotel parking lot, but even though it was locked and wouldn’t be able to be used, no one has turned it in.
SO I suggest when ever you find anything, notify where you found it right away, so that if the owner comes looking, they get a positive response, otherwise they are going to keep broadening their search which may get them farther and farther off track.
I have a nice story though too.
I used to always lose my wallet at the grocery store. I would have the baby in one hand, push the cart with the other ( she never would sit in the cart past about 4 months old), and would always be putting my wallet down in the produce.
We live just a few blocks from the grocery, and at least 2 or 3 times I came home to find my wallet in my mailbox- no note, nothing missing, just sitting there .</p>
<p>What does a guy have to get a girl to take his calls?
well it is unfortunate she wasn’t able to just tell you she wasn’t interested- but actions speak louder than words sometimes
Its possible that since your focus was elsewhere, you read more into her communication than she meant, and that is why she hung up on you.
this is way off track from the thread, but try just enjoying someones company rather than thinking about what you are going to “get” out of it.</p>
<p>If I ask someone someplace, I usually treat, and then it is reciprocated. It is just a friendly thing to do, although I think it is probably better to have your friend pay their own way, rather than limit yourself to $10 if you need a guarentee of sexual favors if you spend anything on them.</p>
<p>Well kiss my freaking grits! Not more than a minute after I posted post #11, I got a text message back from set girl explaining that she has been busy with work and her friend’s father died. She still should have called sometime in the past 9 days, but its good to hear from her nonetheless. THAT is why I never burn bridges!</p>
<p>now you know how girls feel when a guys say i’ll call you and then in guy time, its a week later</p>
<p>girls can sense when a guy is in it for “something” he can get out of it, we aint’d dumb</p>
<p>and if you were as gracious to her on the phone as you were to her here, well, think about that</p>
<p>sure, she should have called. you need to think about that. if she is the right girl for you. if you don’t trust her, or like how she treats you, is that what you want? or are you expecting too much this early?</p>
<p>A little different, but it also involves honesty: H and I returned the other day from 10 days in London where we did some heavy duty shopping— suits and shoes for H, skirts and dresses for me. We spent well over the $1600 limit for two people. We listed and declared everything. Customs just waved us through! I was positive we would have to pay duty.</p>
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Hint for the future: Nothing scares a girl off faster than a guy who starts talking marriage right off the bat. So it is very natural that she would draw back if she felt you were coming on too strong. The 9-day lapse is something of an indication that if you want this relationship to go anywhere, you need to give her more space.</p>
<p>Splashmom, I love your story, and good for you for insisting on giving her $20, even though she didn’t want to take it. </p>
<p>I was goofing around at the mall with a friend of mine two weekends ago - we weren’t really shopping, just playing around in different stores, then having lunch. When we finished, she went to her car, I went to mine - and found a flat tire. </p>
<p>It was Sunday afternoon and I knew my roadside assistance would take HOURS to get there, so, I decided to just change the tire myself, as there was still enough time left in the afternoon to get to Sears and either have the original repaired or buy new tires. </p>
<p>Five minutes into the work, an incredibly, stunningly handsome gentleman walks up and changes the tire for me. I know it sounds like a cliche but he really was tall, dark, handsome - looked like something out of the pages of GQ. He was my age range too, no wedding ring anywhere in sight, and, turned out, owner of the brand new spotless Mercedes parked next to mine - dark blue with gorgeous tan leather interior. Very very nice man too, telling me to be sure to take the car right away to get the tire repaired, cautioning me not to drive too much on the donut tire, etc.</p>
<p>Anyway, obviously, offering him a $20 bill for his help would’ve been weird, so, I handed him my business card and offered coffee or lunch, would he like to call me, perhaps one day during the week? He looked at me kinda weird but said he would call. </p>
<p>Hopped in my car, started it, put it in reverse, checked in the rearview, then, burst out laughing, knowing right then this gentleman is never, ever going to call me. See, in the mall, we were playing around in the sample makeup in Sephora (sp). The lighting is very muted in there, so it wasn’t obvious to me in the mall, but outdoors it was very obvious that I had green or blue eyeshadow caked all over one eye, brown or purple on the other, blush on one side of my face that somehow had turned pumpkin orange in the bight sunlight, a different color blush on some other part of my face, smeared lipstick, just, basically looked like a very unfortunate clown. I’d used the makeup remover they provide but some accidently just managed to smear the stuff all over different parts of my face, rather than actually removing it. </p>
<p>To my disappointment, he hasn’t called. :(</p>
<p>I loved your story too SplashMom. </p>
<p>And uhh… the Joev-dating sidetrack was weird…</p>
<p>Great “feel good” story, thanks for sharing! This reminds me of several incidents–the first was when hubby & I & our two young kids (infant & toddler) were in New Orleans. Hubby said he wanted to help & would be in charge of all our bags (including my waistpack which held my wallet) & I’d be in charge of the kids. When we got back to the hotel, we got a phone call from someone who asked if we were staying in the hotel & whether we had lost a black waistpack. I was very surprised & asked hubby where my black waistpack was & he said, “What waistpack?” They insisted on stopping by the hotel & dropping off the waistpack that they found on the St. Charles Streetcar & absolutely refused any reward & disappeared, saying that they hope that someday someone will return something they lose.</p>
<p>When Tamagochi’s were the craze, my young son found two Tamagochis at the museum and was delighted (because we didn’t have any). I had him turn it in to the museum’s lost & found, & we watched as a very distraught child & her parent went there & claimed it, overjoyed to have it returned. A few months later, my brother gave my son & daughter Tamagochis of their own.</p>