MONEY MORAL DILEMMA: Would you intervene?

A.Jones

You ask the person in front if it’s theirs, they say no, and pick it up saying they’ll check with counter staff.

What were you expecting that they will check with counter staff? How would staff serving burgers know who it belongs to? If you fell for that, then you are stupid.

poppy_f1

similar thing happened to me once, was standing in a queue at mcdonalds and someone said to me if it was my money on the floor, it wasnt but i said it was
was panicing tho just in case someone else claimed it before i got out of the store

so my answer is id pocket it

lordswood

I'd have picked it up and then asked. Possession is nine tenths of the law!

jamez79

I'd start off with "How about we go halves on that tenner you've just pocketed before i get really loud and embarrassing!" and smile sweetly.

I guess it'd be one of the popular fast food chains so two could eat for a tenner!

richardg_2

Hi everyone!

It was me that wrote to the Metro, I was in a well known coffee chain, green writing - you know the one! Anyway, personally if the situation was reversed (I was the person in front of me in the queue) I would have offered to split it with them (the enquirer behind) as without them spotting it the money would never have been in my hand in the first place! If, however I was feeling particularly virtuous it would have gone in the charity box on the counter by the till!! :A

iolande

I would say something - and loudly too. If it isn't anybody that we can see - then it's a split or in the charity box situation. Simple.

Kev64

I wouldn't ask for it back. If you were daft enough to leave it on the floor, then bring it to the attention of a complete stranger, you deserve to lose it !
Think of it as a "stupidity tax".

Woodgnome_2

The formal etiquette in that situation would be to point to the ceiling, shriek loudly 'Christ look at the size of that wasp' as everyone looks up, bend down, pocket the tenner and leave.

Warrior2012

I was faced in a very similar situation in a Subway about 2 months ago! There was £40 laying on the floor...i picked it up (i dont know how nobody else in the full shop saw it) and was about to ask whose it was. But then common sense hit me and i realised that anyone i asked would most probably claim it. The person who i suspected it most likely would belong to was ahead of me...i watched him while he went into his pocket, and went into the wallet to pay for his food. He did not seem alarmed or like he had lost anything. So i took the money, guilt free! If anyone in the shop look like they had lost the money, i would have gladly handed over to them.

hermoine_2

Would have put it in the charity box on the till if no one had claimed it. I do not think I would have felt right about keeping it.

H