i found a purse in the park today whilst i was walking the dog...

[mrsmaveric]

i took it to the police station of course. i gave my details and contact number and within 2 hours a police officer called me to say that they had returned the purse to the owner and that a £10.00 reward was awaiting me at the station from the owner of the lost purse..kind of restores your faith in human nature dont you think???..anyway what i want to ask is have you ever found/lost anything and what was the outcome??

[brenda]

I found a pass book with 3 £20 notes in for a building society, on the floor in Asda ,took it to the customer services and asked for a receipt for it ,it was claimed and the lady sent me a fiver . Sent it back and we have been friends ever since.

[starone]

I left my purse with all my month's housekeeping money in it in a phone box. It was gone when I went back. I checked with the police but no luck. Someone did well out of it but we had to scrimp and scrape for the next month. On the other hand I found a purse in Morrisons car park and handed it in to the desk and the lady who it belonged to sent me a £5 note, which I did not want or need. I thought more of the chap at the desk who complimented me on handing it in. He said not many people would.

[Stephen_G]

Lovely gesture, mrsmav.

I went to see my mate wrestle and the guy sitting in front of us was unaware of his wallet having fallen out of his tracksuit bottoms. I walked up behind them and hovered my foot above the wallet, to cover it from anyone else's eyes, then had a quiet word in his ear and moved my foot. He was very relieved and offered to buy me a drink but I declined.

[andy-hughes]

Back in the 80's, I interviewed the rock band Kiss. Cassette recorders were a bit more primitive then, and I found to my horror that my machine had not taped the interview.

Gene Simmons was courtesy itself, he not only invited me back to the band's hotel to re-record the interview, he offered to let me record it on his own state-of-the-art recorder - which would be worh the equivalent of about £600 in today's money.

After Gene and Paul left, I realised that he had left his recorder behind. Being an honest soul, I packaged it up and sent it to his record company in London for them to return it.

I thought afterwards that a multi-millionaire rock star probably wouldn't miss a tape machine - and the chances of it actually getting back to him, and not into the possession of a record label employee were probably pretty small!

That said, my concience would nt have let me just keep it.

[Dee Sa]

I lost my purse about two weeks ago, I was shaky for days, never got it back and it had my driving licence inside so I was traceable, well done Mrs M, just shows there are some decent people left in the world.