A week of Good Will: Result?
Apr. 10th, 2006 09:44 amSo? It's been a week? Have you been good and have you been good to others? Leave your stories in the Comments.
My week was spent holding doors open (as inspired by t!), making way for other cars to merge safely, making a point of saying good morning to folks and thank them for a myriad of things that so many others take for granted. As always, there is surprise in their reactions, which is intrinsically satisfying.
My big Good Samaritan action this week was finding a Platinum VISA credit card in the hallway at work. The card was new, the back was unsigned, and it would've been so easy to use to acquire ill-gotten gains. Fortunately for the owner, this was never my intention.
I found it in front of the elevators, so it could've belonged to anyone in the building. Phoning the credit card company to cancel the card was my last resort, because I wanted to find the person who owned this. Canceling a credit card is such a pain in the keister, especially when you use it all the time. If this guy had a Platinum card, he probably uses it alot for business.
After knocking on a few doors in the building, I finally found the office where the guy worked. When I told the receptionist that I found the card in front of the elevators, she nearly fell off her stool in surprise to exclaim "Well, you're honest!"
Honestly, I think most people would have done the right thing in the same situation. It's due to a healthy amount of cynicism when we paint a majority of the population with the worst that a vast minority has to offer.
But doing the right thing does help to restore faith. So keep going... restore faith!
My week was spent holding doors open (as inspired by t!), making way for other cars to merge safely, making a point of saying good morning to folks and thank them for a myriad of things that so many others take for granted. As always, there is surprise in their reactions, which is intrinsically satisfying.
My big Good Samaritan action this week was finding a Platinum VISA credit card in the hallway at work. The card was new, the back was unsigned, and it would've been so easy to use to acquire ill-gotten gains. Fortunately for the owner, this was never my intention.
I found it in front of the elevators, so it could've belonged to anyone in the building. Phoning the credit card company to cancel the card was my last resort, because I wanted to find the person who owned this. Canceling a credit card is such a pain in the keister, especially when you use it all the time. If this guy had a Platinum card, he probably uses it alot for business.
After knocking on a few doors in the building, I finally found the office where the guy worked. When I told the receptionist that I found the card in front of the elevators, she nearly fell off her stool in surprise to exclaim "Well, you're honest!"
Honestly, I think most people would have done the right thing in the same situation. It's due to a healthy amount of cynicism when we paint a majority of the population with the worst that a vast minority has to offer.
But doing the right thing does help to restore faith. So keep going... restore faith!