Why Do Kind Strangers Return Our Wallets?
nytimes.com
nytimes.com
Imagine the sense of personal satisfaction if you are able to do a deed like that.
It has happened twice in my life:
I left the bank one day after drawing out £1000, about a 100M down the street and a woman tapped me on the shoulder and said "Excuse me you have just dropped this?". amazing!
another time I had just filled up with petrol. Got to my front door and realised that I had left my wallet on the roof of my car after arguing with trouble. Money, credit cards, driving licence everything! I flew back to the petrol station and it was nowhere to be seen.
I went home dejected. An hour later my phone rang. It was the local police, they said someone had handed in my wallet to the station and did I want to pop along and pick it up. The police officer said that she had asked that I call her to thank her. Too right I did.
None of those words appear in the article. I can deduce that the author of this article would never return a wallet. If they are this perplexed at the good deeds of others, and need to turn to science for a reason, they are as dense as a brick.
Reasons:
- because kind strangers have empathy
- because kind strangers want to do what is right, and help others
- because kind strangers would hope the same thing is done when they lose their own wallet