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[camwyn]

This weekend, on People Are Looking For That:

An ExxonMobil credit card, found lying in the street as I headed to the nearest shore access point (I cannot call anything covered in that many rocks, snails, and snail-covered rocks a beach) for kayak paddling. It was in front of somebody's house rather than in the city, so I possibly should have gone up to the house and asked if someone with the surname on the card lived there, but I don't know the people at that address; I phoned the customer service number on the card instead and reported it found so they could contact the customer instead, and then once CS verified that they'd frozen the card number, took the card home and cut it up.

Comments

[chanter1944]

Has anybody ever told you you are a demonstrably good person, with the returning of or responsibly disposing of items thing? Because you so are. Not everybody would bother.

[camwyn]

The world's enough of a mess without finding out that not paying attention to absolutely everything, every single moment, has just cost you something important. Or without finding out that someone or something else you were relying on screwed up what you were hoping for. I just figure I can fill in a few gaps where I see them.

[chanter1944]

As someone who sometimes feels like she's getting hit with the "Pay attention!" "To what?" "Everything, forever, all the time! Enjoyment is an excuse not to pay attention!" sledge hammer... thank you for this, and by this I mean both reasoning and concrete action.

Did that Bank of China card ever get back to its holder, by the way?

[camwyn]

"I don't know if you know this, you stupid careless person you, but THIS THING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM YOU SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION TO even though you just got told the exact same thing by the LAST five messages you read!" gah. Yes. I know what you mean.

Anyway, no, I was never able to get hold of someone who could tell me what to do with it. Wound up cutting it up and throwing the pieces away in three different garbage bins.

[chanter1944]

Substitute last five messages with last five things you've been told, or... ugh. :( I don't know if my reaction is my neurodiversity showing, or what.

Ah, darn. Sounds like you did the best and most conscientious thing you could have done under the circumstances.