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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d high five my kid for her ground score and move on with my day[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.

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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.[/quote]

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

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. [b]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.[/b][/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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