Posted on 04/14/2015 7:16:42 AM PDT by TexasCajun
Think the people at Chick-fil-A are honest, upstanding folks?
This story will confirm your hunch.
A civil rights lawyer in Decatur, Georgia, made a huge mistake when he dropped hundreds of dollars on the floor at a Chick-fil-A while eating breakfast, but a restaurant employee saved him from losing the cash, WXIA-TV reported.
Attorney Victor Long had $1,200 in cash on him — money bound for the bank — on April 1 when he ate breakfast at the restaurant, he told WXIA.
“I didn’t even think about backtracking, because I figured anybody who found the money, the way people need things now, it probably never was going to come back,” he said. ”I hoped that whoever got the money would need it. And I was satisfied with that. And I thought that if someone who found it needed it, it would be a blessing to me.”
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Well it would buy a few months worth of lunches at CFA for the fellow. Or it could be a bribe for one politician. Depends on how you measure large. What cynics these mortals be.
Some years back, I saw someone drop a $20, and I stood on it until the guy was out of sight. I stuffed it in my pocket, and somehow I ended up dropping it as well.
God taught me a little lesson that day, as He is wont to do.
Since then several similar situations have arisen, and it never even occurred to me not to do the right thing.
Really curious about the car that got stuck and then drove off... what was up with that?
I have seen it posted on here many times. Comments about someone doing something illegal just because he has a few thousand in cash on him.
You read my mind.
Some of the best deals come around on the weekends when the banks are closed.
I keep them in the car for just such an occasion! hahaha!
Temptation comes in all denominations!
And God does have His ways of teaching us stuff.
All I can think of is that the lady in the car was being used by you-know-who to frustrate and annoy me into keeping the check!
We are more easily tempted by evil when we feel threatened or helpless, I guess.
It may have been a “Sucker-Trap” but goodness won! LOL!
Amen!!!
Really.
I carry $1.5K as a matter of course, and the equivalent hidden in my car or bag.
I travel a lot and there are still places in this world that demand cash (e.g., tow truck drivers, mechanic shops in BFE that fix tires, etc.)
“Need-based” Situational ethics would have really applied here, as I am a self-employed widow who lost her home, and not old enough for senior benefits, and go into a negative bank balance every month when I pay the rent.
I needed the $10,000 more than the real estate guy, but, as somebody once said, “Integrity is determined by what you do when nobody is looking.”
Not boasting...it was the Lord’s doing.
It always amazes me when I have a big ticket item for sale.I will be asking say $5000 and a caller/buyer says something like, “would you take $4500 cash money” and I say”no matter the price , it is always going to be cash money”.As if I would take a check from a complete stranger. But, you better have your marker pen, a local guy sold a $8000 side by side the other day and the guy paid him in counterfeit $100 bills.
WHERE'S THE MONEY, YOU MISERABLE DRUNK?!?!?!?!................
You are so right. They tell the kids they want to have a servant spirit like the Lord. ANY time you say thank you to a Chick-Fil_A employee they will say "My pleasure". I've even taken to doing that among people who are not at all Christians.
If you remember "Chick-Fil-A" day, that event made such an impression on my son he waited for just that job before getting his first job.
The employee returning the money was black - but the NAACP member dropping 1200.00 dollars on the floor was a democrat politician.
So, which one was honest and moral? Only the Lord knows. But I know of no honest, moral democrat politician with any ethics.
Why do I have a funny feeling about all this? What kind of person doesn’t make any effort at all to retrace their steps to find $1200?
If what he says is really true - that few people would turn in that kind of cash - he has a very negative view of his fellow man.
Why do I have the feeling that this guy is going to be running for office soon?
Just FYI, the race aspect didn’t enter into my perception at all. I read the story, thinking ‘a Civil Rights Lawyer, going into a Chick-fil-A, in the SOUTH’. Three alerts in rapid fire succession.......I expect people (all people, including Civil Rights Lawyers) to be honest, but those three facts, together, had my Lib-radar up. So no, it wasn’t the racial aspect.
“Use some class and don’t make everything about race.”
Perfect observation. Thank you, chickensoup.
If he was trying to set someone up at Chick-fil-A I think 3-400 bucks would have been more than enough to make his point.
Congrats to the honest kid who returned the money.
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