Honesty

Today I received a phone call from Pizza Hut re. the cash payment I made two days ago for the pizzas the boss ordered online. Payment was made using credit card and I was not being informed by the lady boss. The staff from Pizza Hut said she will ask the same delivery boy to give me back the money once he clocked in at work at 5p.m.

Talking about honesty, I can still remember two incidents in my life, among others, how people had been honest to me.

1. During my first year of high school in Sydney, I dropped my wallet on the train on the way home from school. Besides having cash in the wallet, there were things like travel pass (with the pass all students were allowed to travel on trains and school buses for free when wearing uniform and half price when not wearing one), school pass, etc.

I thought that would be the end of my wallet but a few days after that, a good Samaritan who had found my wallet on the train posted back using his/her own money the wallet to my house address. There was not a single thing missing from my wallet. I could not thank the good Samaritan because he/she did not write his/her address on the envelope.

2. A few years back I received a phone call from an officer working in Standard Chartered Bank. I had banked in more money for my credit card payment than I had written on the bank-in envelope. The officer could have just pocketed the money and no one would have known. Instead he told me he would write the correct amount on the envelope for me.

At least there are still honest people around eventhough they are getting rarer and rarer.