Just Doing The Right Thing

--by momov3, posted Mar 10, 2010

I was on a walk with a friend yesterday when I found a BlackBerry cell phone in a puddle of melted snow. I picked it up and it still worked! I started scrolling through the contact list and calling numbers to see if I could figure out whose phone it was. Unfortunately, only one person answered and she didn't recognize the number that I was calling from. She made a comment of "It is just so nice that you are trying to find out whose phone it is."

Since that lady didn't know whose phone it was, my friend suggested that we go back to the street and the house that we found the BlackBerry in front of. I knocked on the door and two college-age people answered. They hadn't lost their phones, but as I told them the story and mentioned some names on the contact list, the young man said that he had those names also and it must be the phone of one of their friends. Then, both of the people commented on how wonderful it was that I took the time to find the owner. I really didn't have anything to say, because in my mind, I was just doing the right thing. I NEVER considered keeping the phone- it wasn't mine. I IMMEDIATELY tried to find the owner, because that is exactly what I would want someone to do if either I or any of my family members lost their phones.

Sometimes, helping others is just doing the right thing. (And, it felt awesome when I found out it would get back to the owner). The best part was I didn't say who I was - give a name, or number- because doing the right thing felt awesome and was more than enough for me!

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Posted by momov3
Mar 10, 2010
Comments (25)

Readers Comments

Madhuri wrote: Sometimes other people recognise our good qualities even if we think we are doing just the right thing. Keep going...:)

bhumble wrote: You are good my dear, I am so proud of you.

You are also reminding me of the same incident happened 3 years ago whereby a woman left her cellphone in my cousin's taxi. I tried to call and sms the contact numbers I found there just like you did.

I ended up talking to the owner of the phone.

I gave her my home address and even my cellphone number but she never collected her phone.

cyrilsmom wrote: u r so nice.u went out of ur way to find the owner.its nice to read that there r still people out there who giveback things so costly.u r a honest person .

cabbage wrote: Yay for you! I'm glad you found the person! You rock!

Aurelia wrote: Values aren't taught...they're Caught. So good of you to do the right thing. Your kids are lucky to have such a wonderful role model. :) Thanks for caring.
~Aurelia

unknown wrote: way to go momov3 ! love it !!!

arunchikkop wrote: That was so nice to hear. Doing the right think needs a lot of courage.
Thanks for what you did.
GOD BLESS YOU

Jewel wrote: You do feel good about doing the right thing, and luckily cell phones help us to do just that. My daughter and i found a purse at the poolside of a hotel we were staying in, that had a lot of cash in it. Fearing whether the desk clerk would do the right thing or not, we opted to try to find the owner ourselves. First we called the hotel and asked them to connect us to the room of the person. They had no one by that name listed as a guest. So we checked the cell phone that was inside the purse and started calling numbers of the person's contacts--those who looked like they might be relatives. We got ahold of a daughter who actually lived in the area. She said her mother was a realestate saleswoman who was closing a deal with a client. (that explained the large sum of cash in the purse. ) i'm guessing that client was at the hotel. The daughter could not reach her mother (obviously we had her cell phone) but said she would be right over to pick up the purse. She could not believe that we were that honest, but she was very grateful and thanked us again and again! There is no question that we would do the right thing. I would hope if i lost a purse the person who found it would to the same.

Patrick wrote: Momov3, it was so nice to read your story, people like you unfortunately seem to be in a a minority, but as long as there are people like you out there the light of hopw continues to shine.

God bless

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