Good day my beautiful friends of M2, wow, lately my minions been really molding my topic forums to successful hits , like I told you guys before its fuel for me to continue to post my "Hot Tea Of Topics". I want to thank you to all but lets not end here keep spilling the pinto beans...lol. Well, last night here in Philly made me think about how honest man & woman are in the world. Before I go in, I believe there are honest folks in the world but then there's the opportunist. Okay, I'm Downtown Philadelphia last night I run into a buddy of mines. I can smell it in the air that something was going to happen in a matter of minutes but I don't know what. Meanwhile I decide to jump on the 11 trolley home to taking a shower, eat a late night snack, smoke my evening stogie(Cigars), and watch a movie. As I exit the trolley my buddy is angry, cussing up a storm and then he ask me" could he use my phone to make a call?". Normally I would but my phone battery needed charging. So then he proceeds to tell me he left his phone on the trolley. I was like Whatttt!, I was sorry to hear his lost". So another friend of ours let him make a call to his lost phone to see if anybody picked it up. He was in luck, somebody did answered. He explained that that's his phone & he needed it back. So, the person must of said they was willing to meet with him to return the phone , which in any case is extremely rare today, but it does happen. So, he met up with the person and got his phone back. I hope my good friend learn a valuable lesson at the end of the night that you have to keep your belongings close to you. Just like in New York City after a boarding a train or bus you check your pockets to see if everything there with you. well , Philly we got to do the same thing. my Opinion Minions of M2 , when you lost your cellphone, next to your loved ones its the most important technology we keep with us and losing it is like your world collided to doom. Like my cell, I have a crazy amount of downloads from tv shows to music to gaming apps to my music studio apps to my contacts. I f was to lose mines, the anxiety is on super high and I feel horrible like being dumped at a High school prom..lol. So, How honest are you, if you found anything but in the case let's say a cellphone near you, the phone is active. you discovered all the treats about the lost phone, Now we all grew up with the finder's keeper mentality, and that's fine, its fair game then. But what about as an adult, do we still have that thinking ? what we find is ours until you receive a cash reward? Again if this was your scenario think about it, your phone, your baby, your way of life. you forgot or got it stolen as a victim how would you see this. Now playing gods advocate....( never the devil...lol), Now as the finder, if the person calls ask for there phone back, do you pick up and do the honest thing and agree to meet up to return the phone? Or you willing to return the phone only when a cash reward offered? or you do the noble thing regardless of a reward "I'm do the right thing and return it with no conditions?". So tell me my M2 Soldiers what side of this 2 headed coin are you? Its okay if you would keep it I mean its no judging here with me. I'm here to have fun with my topics as well as learn too. so let me in!

All those who respond will receive a response back okay, Later!

Humm... actually in the past I have found a phone... It is pretty easy I went through the contact list to see if there was a ICE # (in case of emergency) contact. Normally those are family ect.. called one of them told them that I found a phone and to let them know. So the phone could be returned..

I did not grow up with finders keepers looser weepers type thing.. We were raised if it is not yours and you can find the owner to return it...

Nowadays, cell phones cost upwards of $500 - $700 and then some. That is a tough call but I would return it, without an expectation of a reward even. I would feel empathy for the person, realizing how devastating it would be to lose my cell phone. It's not just for the monetary value but all the personal info and irreplaceable files which I have accumulated on the cell, although I have tried to keep that to a minimum due to privacy concerns.

Well just like a wallet, I'd do what I could to return it to the owner.
Been in a similar situation and was so thankful to have it returned.

to TXGal3333,

that's great, you one the rare honest ones I mentioned in my opening. I will be honest, I sometimes do the saint thing and sometimes I do the finder's keeper thing....lol. a phone maybe, money no way its mines. I found 5 dollars last week and did you think I would made a an effort to ask anybody " hey did you drop a 5?" its was the blessing indeed inspire of the heat wave last week I needed something cold to drink and that was it.....lol.

Scoobert34,
you know what? I love the tingly feeling when you do a good deeds. sometimes I have to sweep my selfish wants under the rug and do the right thing. when I do that gods' tingles run right thru me.....that's a rush even drugs can't produce.

Now if it is money ohhh hell no right straight to my pocket but I will spend it and enjoy the heck out of it...

That is if there is no way to tell who it belongs too...

I'm nice but not that nice cause as soon as you say you found money you will have everyone saying it is theirs

LamWhoLam1,

I see your point of view, I like how you state the facts and use a honest approach to it......way to go!

okay not about a phone but,

I saw a fairly small bag on a table in a cafe, I actually thought it was a make up bag but I thought I would check, good job I did, when I opened it was there was a boat load of notes in their, probably around a grand I would think.

I handed it in to the staff and not long after I see a worried man enter the caf� and I asked him if he lost anything, and he told me yes and gave a description (he was right) and I told him I handed it in to the staff. he was so relieved, it was lovely to see if his face change to relief, and he was very shocked in this day and age and with me being in the younger generation (he thought I was about 24) that someone would hand that in especially with seeing how much cash there was in there.

he insisted on paying for my breakfast the next day by giving me some money, I said no, but he insisted and he even gave me a kiss and said thank god it was you who found it and he called me a little angel.

I would never keep anything when its possible for someone to get it back.

im glad I got to meet this man, it was lovely seeing how much a small act made him so happy.

and would I want a reward, BIG NO, why? just for doing the right thing.

oh to answer your question, of course I would give it back without a second thought. I don't keep what's NOT mine.

Debbie1980,

you one of the good ones as well, gold star for you and made a little friend kind of.......huh? yeah some folks will go thru a wallet for the money. Others for the I.D. for scams, and some take a wallet for the hell of it.....them dang kleptos...lol

im just glad I checked because it wasn't a wallet, it looked like a black make up bag. if I had just left it, there's a high chance someone would have stole it. Im glad he got it back and he was such a lovely man, and yes kind of.

I always think, if you do something for someone that you would like someone to do for you or loved ones in the same situation, you cant go wrong.

For me, honesty and convenience are directly related.

If I find a phone in a grocery store, I will pick it up and hand it to an employee for their lost and found.

If I see a phone in the street I leave it there and move on as opposed to turning it into an Indiana Jones and the Lost Cell Owner Crusade.


I think that is highly dependent upon socio economic status.

I mean if I'm able to afford an apple iPhone and see a flip phone lying there, I am not going to take it and want to keep it.

If I'm taking a train to the nearest pay phone in order to hang out waiting for job interviewers to call, I might keep any phone I find.


My phone is a phone with maps for me.
In no way my baby or way of life.


I would just go buy a new phone.
If someone found my phone and called me on it I might try to get it back, or I might just not care.
Depends on how far I would have to travel for it or what the other person wanted to do about it.


Maybe.
Depends on how convenient it is.
I'm not hopping trains or traveling far.
I might mail it to them, or just tell them I'm dropping it off at a certain store's lost and found if it's close to me like "I'll leave it at the lost n found at the Starbucks on 59th and Thomas Rd.," if I found it outside of that Starbucks.
There's really no need to meet.
And I'm sure not taking it home with me and inviting them over.

Maybe if they lost their kid, or a body part, but most crap is crap and just because you value it doesn't mean I have to.



Other than that, cell phones are nasty.
They're covered in germs. You breathe your mouth germs on it and handle it all day.
Hands and mouths are the dirtiest parts of your body.
I'd prefer not to touch some strangers phone.
I read that cell phones have like more than 10-20x as many germs and bacteria as a toilet seat.

If it is a phone!! oh I'm making a lot of long distance phone calls lol there's people overseas I have not talked to In years... Then I would give it back Hey if you would B that.. careless to lose a phone.. you should just B happy that It got returned to you and consider my long distance charges my reward lol

I've never been in this situation. I think I'd take it to the nearest police station, so that they can put it in lost property.

Hand it over to the police
Friend and I found $300 we took it to the police. If it's not claimed in six months it comes back to us.
Its claimed. Lol

ha ha, yes possibly to the police.

joking, I would do the same thing.

Debbie1980,

well I can see you a great person to know and I love your responses you are one of my loyal opinion minions......keep posting

to ciretom

good way of looking at it........good buddy keep posting

annierooroo,

you would hand it to the police? wow, you really a good person that's rare today. that's the generation I as brought up where you did things noble for your neighbor

Friendly_woman,

just like annierooroo, you would turn it in to the police. I'm very proud of the few who would do the right thing.....I got to do something for the good ones on here?