MMD: Should Axl pay back his mates?

2tight

email the rest and tell them you are giving the money to charity - people are dying in bangladesh due to the flooding - may save a life.

JayD

I think that Axl should text or email each of them and let them know. He can then ask what they would like him to do with it. If they don't want it returned to them, maybe he could offer to leave the tip, or buy a round next time he meets up with any of them.

Seakay

If he was left with a certain amount of cash to pay for the meal then that is what he should use it for - anything over is for the staff.
Or perhaps he is a relative of rambo1987 in which case I expect he would do a runner from the restaurant and keep all the cash.

harryhound

I can remember finding 3 wallets, funny thing they were all from females:

Case One: Young woman sprinted past me one Friday lunch time and jumped onto the London red bus at the traffic lights. As she did so a wallet flipped out of her back pocket.
It turned out she was Spanish. The wallet held little money, a few student type cards and other bumph one would expect to find. It also included two tickets back to Spain on Sunday night, sold by a Eurolines agent.
I spent the afternoon (at my employers expense) calling any numbers, I could find in the bumph, but if these commercial contacts knew anything they did not want to get involved.
Then with a mate who spoke some Spanish, we got our hands on a manager's phone and called a Spanish number (Spanish names are strange they include a mixture of farther & mother's names). It turned out we had found "grannie", who did not know how to contact her.
Eventually I arranged to send wallet and contents, first class, back to the agent who had sold the tickets for cash.
It would have been nice to know one way or the other, what happened.

Case two: Found a wallet on the verge. It was pretty obvious that it had been stolen, the money and cards had gone but there were still some possessions such as student card, library card etc plus a book of stamps.
So I mailed it back to its owner.
I got her stroppy mother on the phone, who seemed to take the attitude that she had found the crook - For God's sake let your children grow up by sorting out their own mistakes.

Case three: Soggy hand bag lying on the verge but no evidence of a wallet.
Wallet, phone etc gone and then turfed out of a car window. Bag owned by a woman of 28.
I dried out the rest of the contents at work on top of the filing cabinets.
Amongst the contents there were increasingly desperate letters from the Midland Bank, complaining about non repayment of credit cards, overdrafts etc. Also in the bag were a collection of loan agreement forms being made out for other institutions.
So I took the bag, enclosing a note explaining where I had found it, to the nearest Midland Bank and "paid it in" to the surprised teller. I wonder what
became of it.

Bit off topic BUT, never mind the money, failing to return things like identity cards, driving licences, the loss of which cause hassle and disruption out of all relation to their actual worth, is a pretty miserable thing to do.

Harry

hollymcr

I'd look at this differently. I think it depends what he would have done had the total cash been £20 short instead of £20 over.

If he'd have just paid the difference because it wasn't worth chasing everyone for an extra £4 and the meal was worth it anyway, then he should keep the extra (or leave it as a tip, or give it to charity, whatever he feels happiest with).

If he'd have chased people for the extra money then he should also chase them to return the overspend.

tozza

No brainer - leave the money for the Waiter/waitress if the service was good since the staff very rarely see any of the service charge even if the bill/receipt says it is in lieu of staff gratuities - I should know I was in the industry for 40 years and with crap wages and conditions a few quid tip in cash for good service in the bar/dining room/kitchen or housekeeping was like a bonus and made me feel special - compliments don`t pay bills
Tozza (retired hotelier,restaurateur,master chef,lecturer,disciple of Martin)

pezza88

I am sorry, but as a 19 year old Rambo is talking rubbish about morals changing. If I found a purse/wallet, I would take it to reception (at uni) or try to contact the person. To not do so is theft pure and simple.

If it was just a £5 note however - nice lunch is fine by me.:beer:

Nicki24

Iom-rf wrote: »

Give the money back without a doubt, I hate owing people money not matter how small, for example I owe someone £5, I was going to give it back on the Monday but I kept walking past the shop think "oh crap what do I say".... Next time (about a week later) I walked past I was ready to walk into the shop and hand the guy the fiver I owed him, I go upto the door but he's not there, I'd then forgotten about the fiver (been busy though its not an excuse)

Last week the guy died of a heart attack, now I still want to give the money back because it isn't mine, I feel awful that I'd "taken" £5 because if I haven't given it back thats "taking", part of me wants to stuff the £5 through the letterbox of the shop (which I should of done in the first place, so i'm annoyed with myself) but then I don't actually know who the money is going to.

Dont feel bad it was an honest mistake, if it would make you feel better why not donate the money to the heart foundation, that way it will go to a good cause and ease your conscience.

barri_2

A lot of people seem to get lost in these moral mazes. And some of them can't spell either! Leave the money for the waiters. Barri.

sloucho

Save the money for Slash, he is going to need it, if he can't split a bill between 5 he is never going to get a job as an accountant.
Or buy him a Velvet Revolver.