No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

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I found a valuable thing in the donation box at work and was pretty sure that the person who put it there didn't know what it was. I am a desperately struggling person and I could have sold the thing for $200 easily. But I knew it wasn't right so I left a note for the donor to call me.

I was hoping it was someone like a member of the cleaning crew or someone else who was having difficulties. Turns out it was one of the few coworkers I truly don't like--and she lives in a lovely house in a nice area and her husband is steadily employed and she's not mentally ill and neither is he. I suppose she has her own struggles I know nothing about, and I hope that getting her thing back and finding out it was valuable made her day.

Me and my big fat honest mouth.

Fukkin figures don't it.

You're an honesty and ethical person. Those are becoming rare commodities in today's world and you are to be commended. Of course I realize those traits don't help pay the bills.

You still did the right thing. Just because you do not like someone does not mean you should hurt them or wish ill upon them.

Thanks, y'all. What went around came around after all! Although the lady and I will never be best buds, she's not so bad after all. She gave it back to me at the end of the day and said that my honesty really made her day. She didn't know what the doohickey was herself when she put it in the box, so she figured it was fair to let me keep it.

Wow! That was kind of you to return it and generous of her to give it to you. Are you going to sell it or keep it?

Was this woman ever mean to you?

Not exactly, but she is really bossy. I am going to hang onto the thingy for a while in hopes that my husband forgets I mentioned it. It is an antique set of rosary beads with a bakelite crucifix with Stanhope lenses in it. She said she was cleaning out her desk and didn't even know how she had acquired it. I don't think it would be simony to sell it unless I claimed that it had some sort of extra holiness to it.