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Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

Strange that L&F is where I have found my kids coats, backpacks, lunch bags, and hoodies over the years. Do you know how this even works?

Lots of posters in this thread have commented that water bottles are not kept for liability reasons. Do YOU know how this even works? You have a good handle on how all lost & founds operate, do you? How did you come by that all-encompassing knowledge?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

Telling that this is the conclusion you jumped to. It also seems that your community is rather judgmental.

Well since you're making things up such as that I said "everyone" was doing something, it's pretty clear you're just stirring things up and not interested in conclusions. I feel sorry for you.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

Strange that L&F is where I have found my kids coats, backpacks, lunch bags, and hoodies over the years. Do you know how this even works?

Lots of posters in this thread have commented that water bottles are not kept for liability reasons. Do YOU know how this even works? You have a good handle on how all lost & founds operate, do you? How did you come by that all-encompassing knowledge?

Weird that I have found water bottles in multiple lost and founds.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

Strange that L&F is where I have found my kids coats, backpacks, lunch bags, and hoodies over the years. Do you know how this even works?

Lots of posters in this thread have commented that water bottles are not kept for liability reasons. Do YOU know how this even works? You have a good handle on how all lost & founds operate, do you? How did you come by that all-encompassing knowledge?

Weird that I have found water bottles in multiple lost and founds.

Weird that you think your anecdata means anything.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

Strange that L&F is where I have found my kids coats, backpacks, lunch bags, and hoodies over the years. Do you know how this even works?

Lots of posters in this thread have commented that water bottles are not kept for liability reasons. Do YOU know how this even works? You have a good handle on how all lost & founds operate, do you? How did you come by that all-encompassing knowledge?

Weird that I have found water bottles in multiple lost and founds.

Weird that you think your anecdata means anything.

Like your point that "posters in this thread" means anything? Apparently you have never turned anything into nor visited a lost and found. They are full of water bottles.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

Telling that this is the conclusion you jumped to. It also seems that your community is rather judgmental.

Well since you're making things up such as that I said "everyone" was doing something, it's pretty clear you're just stirring things up and not interested in conclusions. I feel sorry for you.

I was a DP responder to your original response. You said "people", which in how that sentence was constructed, implies "everyone". You would have been better off qualifying it as "some people" or "many people" (which would still have been a reach since you couldn't possibly know that). That's what PP was referring to. Aside, your use of "I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices" was written to throw shade at PP's community (i.e., more judgment). And even your last sentence there "I feel sorry for you" is intended to be condescending and judgmental. You truly sound like a miserable person to be around.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

Strange that L&F is where I have found my kids coats, backpacks, lunch bags, and hoodies over the years. Do you know how this even works?

Lots of posters in this thread have commented that water bottles are not kept for liability reasons. Do YOU know how this even works? You have a good handle on how all lost & founds operate, do you? How did you come by that all-encompassing knowledge?

Weird that I have found water bottles in multiple lost and founds.

Weird that you think your anecdata means anything.

Like your point that "posters in this thread" means anything? Apparently you have never turned anything into nor visited a lost and found. They are full of water bottles.

We have all visited lost & founds. What a weird attempt at a dig.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

Telling that this is the conclusion you jumped to. It also seems that your community is rather judgmental.

Well since you're making things up such as that I said "everyone" was doing something, it's pretty clear you're just stirring things up and not interested in conclusions. I feel sorry for you.

I was a DP responder to your original response. You said "people", which in how that sentence was constructed, implies "everyone". You would have been better off qualifying it as "some people" or "many people" (which would still have been a reach since you couldn't possibly know that). That's what PP was referring to. Aside, your use of "I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices" was written to throw shade at PP's community (i.e., more judgment). And even your last sentence there "I feel sorry for you" is intended to be condescending and judgmental. You truly sound like a miserable person to be around.

Yes, truly miserable. I'm glad the water bottle thieves have found their people here. It's not admirable so I don't know why you're expecting admiration. People do make good choices because I have gotten my things back more often than not. Read into that what you will.

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Anonymous wrote:OP - the only reason your daughter picked up this used water bottle is because it’s Hydroflask which is expensive and she views as a coveted brand. Let me guess, you wouldn’t purchase her her own to begin with. Why the hell else would she pick up and use someone else’s water bottle? You aren’t instilling good values. It should have been turned into the mall’s lost and found. They have one.

Lost & found would have tossed it. The cleaners would have tossed it. She didn’t toss it. Good on her.

Strange that L&F is where I have found my kids coats, backpacks, lunch bags, and hoodies over the years. Do you know how this even works?

Lots of posters in this thread have commented that water bottles are not kept for liability reasons. Do YOU know how this even works? You have a good handle on how all lost & founds operate, do you? How did you come by that all-encompassing knowledge?

Weird that I have found water bottles in multiple lost and founds.

Weird that you think your anecdata means anything.

Like your point that "posters in this thread" means anything? Apparently you have never turned anything into nor visited a lost and found. They are full of water bottles.

We have all visited lost & founds. What a weird attempt at a dig.

Then why pretend they would certainly never have a water bottle because some poster here said "I heard they throw them out?" If you have visited one you would have likely seen a water bottle.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

Telling that this is the conclusion you jumped to. It also seems that your community is rather judgmental.

Well since you're making things up such as that I said "everyone" was doing something, it's pretty clear you're just stirring things up and not interested in conclusions. I feel sorry for you.

I was a DP responder to your original response. You said "people", which in how that sentence was constructed, implies "everyone". You would have been better off qualifying it as "some people" or "many people" (which would still have been a reach since you couldn't possibly know that). That's what PP was referring to. Aside, your use of "I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices" was written to throw shade at PP's community (i.e., more judgment). And even your last sentence there "I feel sorry for you" is intended to be condescending and judgmental. You truly sound like a miserable person to be around.

Yes, truly miserable. I'm glad the water bottle thieves have found their people here. It's not admirable so I don't know why you're expecting admiration. People do make good choices because I have gotten my things back more often than not. Read into that what you will.

Nobody is expecting admiration. That doesn't even make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

None of this is relevant. We're talking about water bottles with no contact info or name on them, not a purse with valuables and ID, a phone whose owner could likely be identified (and is essentially useless to anyone but the owner anyway), or a laptop with a business card. An anonymous water bottle can't be returned, will likely be trashed, so it's better to keep it out of the landfill IMO. I would keep a nice water bottle that I found in the street. I have and would always return a wallet, purse, or phone to its rightful owner. In fact once I turned in a $100 bill to customer service at Target. A wallet, laptop, or keys etc where I couldn't identify the owner or if I just didn't trust the lost and found I would take to the police station. Nobody is going to the police station to recover their water bottle, but they might end up there for something important/valuable.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

None of this is relevant. We're talking about water bottles with no contact info or name on them, not a purse with valuables and ID, a phone whose owner could likely be identified (and is essentially useless to anyone but the owner anyway), or a laptop with a business card. An anonymous water bottle can't be returned, will likely be trashed, so it's better to keep it out of the landfill IMO. I would keep a nice water bottle that I found in the street. I have and would always return a wallet, purse, or phone to its rightful owner. In fact once I turned in a $100 bill to customer service at Target. A wallet, laptop, or keys etc where I couldn't identify the owner or if I just didn't trust the lost and found I would take to the police station. Nobody is going to the police station to recover their water bottle, but they might end up there for something important/valuable.

I guess I'm the only one aware of the fact that if you ask at a lost and found at your gym, library, store, school, mall, after school activity, and many other places they often have a "Lost & Found" and there are water bottles in them. Now you know. If you forget one somewhere next time, ask and you may get it back.

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I thought this was about water bottles?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

Telling that this is the conclusion you jumped to. It also seems that your community is rather judgmental.

Well since you're making things up such as that I said "everyone" was doing something, it's pretty clear you're just stirring things up and not interested in conclusions. I feel sorry for you.

I was a DP responder to your original response. You said "people", which in how that sentence was constructed, implies "everyone". You would have been better off qualifying it as "some people" or "many people" (which would still have been a reach since you couldn't possibly know that). That's what PP was referring to. Aside, your use of "I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices" was written to throw shade at PP's community (i.e., more judgment). And even your last sentence there "I feel sorry for you" is intended to be condescending and judgmental. You truly sound like a miserable person to be around.

Yes, truly miserable. I'm glad the water bottle thieves have found their people here. It's not admirable so I don't know why you're expecting admiration. People do make good choices because I have gotten my things back more often than not. Read into that what you will.

Nobody is expecting admiration. That doesn't even make sense.

Patting themselves on the back for taking things that don't belong to them b/c they're saving the environment.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day

My kid found an item in a grocery store cart that someone clearly left behind. She wanted to take it into the store and turn it in. So we did that and I high fived her for doing the right thing. Not her "score" of someone's loss being her gain. If OP felt the need to crowd source this, it's because she knows her daughter didn't do the right thing.

I'm glad you are proud of your kid for her actions! Every family is different. Sustainability is very important to our family and we try to instill those values into our kids. I would be proud of my daughter for being willing to use a perfectly good used water bottle, and most likely saving it from the landfill. The likelihood of it being eventually trashed vs making it back to the owner is pretty high. If she had been in the other position--set her water bottle down and couldn't find it again--I would be disappointed in her for not taking better care of her things or even putting her phone number on her water bottle so it could be easily returned, knowing it would probably get thrown away. She would not get a new one. She could buy one with her own money from Goodwill or similar. And I would definitely be happy knowing some other kid picked hers up and put it to good use after she was so careless. It's a water bottle, not a precious heirloom.

My kids have lost water bottles and almost always found them at the lost and found at school, gyms, and other activities. It happens. I think one one time has one been permanently missing. I'm glad we live in the type of community where people good choices.

Not everyone in your community is making good choices. How do people make these blanket statements with no embarrassment.

Not everyone? Where did I say everyone was? I have left my phone and purse at places and they have always been turned in. I have turned in others personal items that I have found. Really, you live in a backwards community if people don't do this regularly. I once found a laptop bag and called the number on the business card and the grateful man came to retrieve it, brought his son, and made it a lesson for him that sometimes people do the right thing. He insisted I take $100 as a reward. It says a lot about you and your community that you wouldn't even consider making a good choice and assume nobody else would either.

Read your last question. What type of community are you talking about anyway? A commune? A town? The mall?

Me personally I would have left it there. I also couldn’t imagine someone returning to the mall looking for it. I don’t know what other people would do. I don’t speak for a whole community

All I know is this discussion is about a water bottle. People’s water bottles are all eventually lost or recycled. We aren’t talking about someone leaving their $1,200 phone. Get a grip