What happened to honesty?

Nathan said:
When my dad was in a long term care facility(stroke) someone stole his hearing aids from his nightstand. What kind of person would steal from a blind man?
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A thief is someone who wants your items at any cost, but not theirs... so they will use every opportunity that presents itself to steal..
 

Nathan said:
Oh yea, for sure. I really hope I never have to confront a burglar in my house, because he might just get what he deserves.
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well I had that dubious delightful event happen to me...again in Spain. I've written about it here before, so to save anyone whose already read it in the past I won't go into the detail.. but suffice to say I walked into the second floor bedroom, at 11pm at night, and the burglar just had one foot into the french doors.. I was so incensed.. I was alone in the house . I didn't even think, I just ran at him, and pushed him over the balcony.. he fell backwards 15 feet onto concrete and broke his leg... you should have seen him in the light of the community pool trying to run away.... his blood was all over my patio steps...


My gated community El Presidente, called the gun toting police, and the police told me if it happened again.. kill him, and drag his body into the brush.. they said..( this is truth ) if we don't find the scum on anyone's property, then no one gets charged
 

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Trade said:
A couple of days ago I found some ones Capitol one credit card in the parking lot of Walmart and I turned it in to the store. In the 10 years that I have been walking on the nature trail I have found 2 sets of keys, a drivers license, and a Lowes gift card. I turned all those in. I also found a debit card outside of my credit union and I turned that in. I found a dime in the Walmart Parking lot a few days ago too. I kept that.
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Found a nickel today. I also turned in a credit card years ago at a Mervyn's store. And the 80+ dollars at the self checkout at the grocery store a few years ago. Someone must have been in a real hurry. I hope they remembered and came back.

I'm sure people appreciated your honesty.
 
One day after leaving the grocery store, I was sitting in my car going over the receipt of what I'd bought and realized I hadn't been charged for the coffee I'd bought. So I went back in the store and told the cashier the coffee had not been rung up, and I wanted her to ring it up so I could pay her.

She said she'd never had anyone do that before....and thanked me profusely for making her day, that there are "good people out there".
I don't want to get something free because of a mistake on another's part. My conscience won't let me.
 
Remy said:
Found a nickel today. I also turned in a credit card years ago at a Mervyn's store. And the 80+ dollars at the self checkout at the grocery store a few years ago. Someone must have been in a real hurry. I hope they remembered and came back.

I'm sure people appreciated your honesty.
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I dunno... last year I found a set of keys on the pavement outside my house. I reported it on the whatsapp group, and the person who came to fetch them was so concerned she might be setup for a trap she brought her dogs with her, and walked along the other side of the road... it was dark .... . I watched out for her, and went outside to meet her.. her husband who was the one who lost the keys was following about 50 feet behind.. very odd.. but there, it shows despite my honesty they were still afraid they were being set up for something...
 
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HermitHogan said:
According to modern day philosophers, we're living in "the age of lies." People today lie just for the sake of lying. It's part of their belligerence. It could be an indicator that society is about to collapse.
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who said this ?...whoever it was I'd like to buy him a drink and ask him how we can reverse this.

I'm an archetypal Aries, we're the most honest of the zodiac... it actually physically pains me when I know someone's lying... why ?...why do it?

My first husband was such a liar you had to look out of the window to check if he said it was raining

When I was at work, there was people there who literally didn't seem to know fact from fiction.

One day there was an incident at work, and I had to close the area down until it was all sorted, only 15 minutes and it was all up and running again.. and there was only one witness to what happened. I'd employed this woman when no-one else would for certain reasons... so when my superiors grilled me about why I'd taken the action I did.. I explained, said I had no choice and that Lucy was a witness..Lucy denied it to them.. ( her real name I hope she's reading this )

I was absolutely astonished..not only has she lied barefaced.. but she'd broken my other rule...and that's loyalty..

of course this is not in any way the only time anyone has lied to my face.. but it's great example of how people can do so without any qualms at all
 
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CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
What I find funny is parents who think their kids don't lie to them.
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Funny you should say that. From the time my son was young, I always told him how I see through lies, especially about drug use, that he could never pull the wool over my eyes on that, so don't bother to try.

I wasn't lying about knowing when/if he lied. My superpower.

PS
I've been so blessed. I Never had a problem with my son. Blessed.
 
Pepper said:
Funny you should say that. From the time my son was young, I always told him how I see through lies, especially about drug use, that he could never pull the wool over my eyes on that, so don't bother to try.

I wasn't lying about knowing when/if he lied. My superpower.

PS
I've been so blessed. I Never had a problem with my son. Blessed.
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Anyone who doesn't/didn't have a kid/adult kid that has/is a problem is truly blessed.
I thank my lucky stars ALL the time that I have four and they all lived through the years; and I tell them that often. ;)
Am not completely sure how I lived through raising four 90% on my own. Happy for you and son, too! (y)
 
Bretrick said:
People will steal anything.
I had a terracotta pot plant saucer, about 12" round, 1 1/2" deep out on the front lawn, full of water. So birds and dogs can have a drink during these very hot days.
I came home today and it was gone.
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That's awful. Do you go to thrift stores? Perhaps pick up some dishes there. But you are right, people will take anything. And you have discussed what is going on at your complex.
 
GP44 said:
We were at a mall in Springfield Missouri several years ago.
My wife got sick and went to the restroom and I sat at a nearby table in the food court.
When she came out of the hallway from the restroom I got up and walked her out to the car in the parking lot.
As soon as we got to the car I realized that I had left my cell phone laying on that table in the food court so I told my wife that if I wasn’t back in ten minutes to call my phone.
There were six teenage boys sitting at that table when I went back in and I asked them if they had seen a phone that was left on the table.
“No” as I looked at each one of them. Starting with what looked like would be the biggest and what would be more of a leader.
“No If I had seen it I would tell you”
Same way down the line “ Me neither”
So I told them that my wife was going to call my phone and when she does I will know that it is my phone.
I had nearly given up on my wife’s call when all of a sudden I heard the ring tone - One of Marty Robbin’s gun fighter songs.
By this time these punks knew I meant business and one of them reached down and took his foot off of my phone and they passed it down the line to me.
I was so angry that I was lucky that I wasn’t thrown out of the mall for all of the names I yelled at these rotten little turds.
Yes! Even worse than that.
I just couldn’t imagine somebody not giving me back my phone after I told them that I walked my sick wife to the car.
I bought a phone case that clips on to my belt after that so there is little chance that I will ever leave it again.
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Yes, six bastards in fact. But I think this is quite normal for some years, which is sad.
 
VaughanJB said:
Back a good few years ago, I was attending conference in Athens, Greece. The day before leaving home, I bought myself a fancy - then new - flip phone. Very cool!

Cutting a long story short, I owned that phone for two days. One of those days was the travel there, then one day at the conference itself. It was stolen on that second day. Sh** happens. :(

Dishonesty has always been a thing. This is even more true in bad economical times. The trouble with haves and have not's is that at a certain point the have not's decide to just take what they want. Add in a serious step backward in our society (which I won't go into here), and you have a serious problem.
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One of my mother's cousins told us four decades ago, that he and his wife visited Greece with his very small car in the 1950s. They even didn't lock the car with all equipment in it. Nothing was stolen. Times have changed since then very much.
 
Nathan said:
When my dad was in a long term care facility(stroke) someone stole his hearing aids from his nightstand. What kind of person would steal from a blind man?
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I've read that they even steal complete dentures of patients in hospitals from their nightstand while they are in the operating theatre.
 
Pinky said:
As a teen, my daughter and her friend, found a wallet with $500.00 cash in it. There was a photo of a teen in the wallet, and other I.D. They walked to the address and gave the wallet back to the girl. There was a "thank you", but, no reward. That was okay with them. I was very proud of them for their honesty.
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If I had lost my wallet, I would give at least 10 per cent of the cash in it to the person who found it.
 
GP44 said:
People have pointed out that it was partially my fault for leaving the phone but under the circumstances I don’t feel that way.
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Your fault that there was an attempt to steal your phone?! Stupid thinking. The thieves lack of honesty/honor had nothing to do with you. They found it and should have turned it into store management for safe keeping and its find announced to customers that management had it.
 
There are still honest people. Several weeks ago, I left my purse in a shopping cart in the parking lot of a Walmart in a semi sketchy part of town. Realized it was missing about 15 minutes later so I went back to the cart corral. The cart I'd used was still there but the purse was gone. I went in to customer service and someone had turned it in!
 
George1959 said:
I've read that they even steal complete dentures of patients in hospitals from their nightstand while they are in the operating theatre.
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This tends to happen in nursing homes and other facilities that house dementia patients. The residents accidentally steal all manner of things - they don't realize the hearing aids, dentures, sweaters, etc., don't belong to them. It's not done maliciously.
 
Our friends are honest people, which is something we value in them. There's a sprinkling of dishonest types in our community, and teenagers (I won't say all) can go through a period where dishonesty can be part of the phase they're in.

I'd like it if the citizens of our democratic nations could be effective at requiring personal honesty, and at least a basic level of personal decency, from their elected representatives.
 

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