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One of our readers sent in this story about how an honest person contacted him in order to return a cell phone she found.
I had a funny instance when some woman in NY found a guy’s cell phone that he left in a cab. It had my number in the memory, so she called me in Atlanta to try and figure out whose phone it was up in NY. Ended up being a co-worker in my NY office, so I gave here the address over there and she dropped off the phone for the guy. Not just honesty, but some hard work to find the rightful owner!
Sent in by Brian Simmons
February 6th, 2007
One of our readers sent in this inspiring story about his son’s honesty. It illustrates the difficult decisions and choices we often face no matter what age we are.
When my son was 9, he was in a martial arts class where they play dodge ball as a warm up. One night after practice as I was tucking him into bed, he began to cry. I asked what was wrong and he told me that while playing dodge ball, he had been grazed by the ball but it was so light that he denied it and the kids believed him. He told me that he felt bad about it, but what made it worse was that at the end of the game, he was the last one standing and he was awarded a free snack and drink. He said he couldn’t even eat the snack because he felt so bad. He promised to never do it again and I told him it was ok to be tempted; everyone is at one time or another. The important thing is that the reward is and should be a lot less satisfying than doing the right thing to begin with.
Ok, I do think my boy is wonderful but don’t you wish everyone had a sense of right and wrong like that!
Sent in by Bill Morgan
February 7th, 2007
Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, so I thought it would be appropriate to tell an honesty story about this great President. As a quick history brush-up, Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Years later (1861), he would become the 16th President of The United States of America. One of the greatest achievements of his presidency was the abolishment of slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963.
When I was in middle-school, I heard an inspiring story about Honest “Abe” that to this day I still remember. I am sure several of you also heard this story in school. The story took place during Abraham Lincoln’s early-teenage years while he was working as a store clerk. It is said that he accidentally overcharged a customer a few extra cents because the scale was not working properly. When he realized the mistake, it was too late, and the customer had already left. He knew the right thing was to return the cents to the customer, so he decided to close the store and go find the customer. At that time, he couldn’t just jump into a car and drive over there like are able to do today. Instead, it is said that Abraham Lincoln walked several miles to the customer’s house and returned those cents.
We can all draw inspiration from the honesty of this young-store clerk that would later become one of the greatest Presidents of The United States of America. He truly was a man of principle, whose honesty and good deeds were evident in his actions.
February 12th, 2007
Last week, I heard about another great honesty story that involved, yes – you guessed it, diamonds and a taxi driver. Except for this time, the story took place in Manhattan, New York and it involved diamonds rings.
The Bangladesh-born Osam Chowdhury picked up a woman at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan and dropped her off 15 blocks away at an apartment
building according the CBS/AP story. Apparently, it wasn’t until hours later when Osam was picking up new passengers that he discovered the woman’s suitcase still in his trunk. He drove back to where he had left her off just to realize it would be too difficult to try to figure where she might be in the apartment building so he headed back to his headquarters. Osam together with the president of his taxi advocacy group opened the suitcase to find much to their surprise 31 diamond rings. They also found a luggage tag that had her contact number in Texas. Her mother actually received the call and passed the information on to her daughter. Later that night she was able to pickup her diamonds thanks to this very honest taxi driver.
In the interview, the taxi driver said, “I’m not going to take someone else’s money or property to make me rich. I don’t want it that way.” You can watch the rest of the interview and see the video of this story here.
February 21st, 2007
Picture this…you’re on a family vacation in Hawaii and you lose your class graduation ring. You go back home to mainland U.S. disappointed and sad to have lost such a valuable memory. Then over 20 years later, your parents surprise you with your 1984 class ring. Can you believe that?! When I read this story on the Good News Blog, I couldn’t help but to imagine the look of surprise and almost shock this man must have had when he saw his class ring.
According to this story, the finder discovered the topaz ring when he was snorkeling off the coast of Maui. Phil Winter from California saved the ring as a souvenir in his wife’s jewelry box. One day, his daughter found it and wanted to wear it. Something then triggered Phil Winter to try and find the ring’s rightful owner. Together with his daughter’s school teacher, they eventually found the owner. So they shipped the ring in a box to the Upper Southampton’s Township home of James Constantini’s parents. I have to say that I truly admire not only Phil Winter’s honesty, but also his determination to find the owner of the ring.
(Photo Eurico Zimbres and Tom Epaminondas)
February 28th, 2007
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