I made a quick trip to the grocery store tonignt and found someone's debit card.

[texanwitch]

It was laying in the grocery cart.

Good thing it was me that found it.

Should I cut it up or what?

People should take better care of their money.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Call their bank and ask them.

[Archae]

2. I found a set of car keys in a parking lot today.

Complete with remote lock/unlock gizmo.
I turned it in to the closest store.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear texanwitch!

I think GPV has the right idea...

Whoever lost it must be frantic. I sure would be...

[texanwitch]

6. That was what I was thinking but wanted to see whay y'all thought.

This is why my debit card is not from my bank.

It is just one I load when I need to.

[texanwitch]

4. I wonder if the person is missing the card yet.

I am really carefull with my debit card, and it isn't from a bank.

[struggle4progress]

5. Once upon a time, I found a set of keys in a grocery cart a few months back. So I wandered

back to customer service. CustomerServiceWoman was talking to CustomerWoman as I approached holding the keys in the air in front of me, and CustomerServiceWoman pointed at me as I approached. CustomerWoman was very very happy. The end.

[texanwitch]

7. I didn't want to turn in a debit card,

There is a 1-800 number on the back.

I just walked by and saw it, the card could have set there all night, outside.

[grasswire]

8. I would have turned it in to the store manager.

Cuz if I lost my card while shopping, that's the first place I would contact.

[Frank Cannon]

9. Call that number on the back.

They will tell you what to do.

[sohndrsmith]

10. "People should take better care of their money."... aw, c'mon, I was

all ready to give you props.

You don't know the circumstances that led to the loss of the card or why it ended up in the grocery cart...

This sort of situation always reminds me of how I cured any sense of 'road-rage' or impatience with people in the wrong line or who have too many items, etc.:

After having experienced a series of traumatic events (and messing up in the check-out line, or not being the "perfect" driver and seeming like a bully when I was simply fighting back tears trying to get to the hospital after my mother's 2nd (or third) heart attack), I realized that strangers who we presume (too often, in my view) to be selfish, impolite, rude, clueless... aren't any of those things, necessarily. Some of them are in shock, just learned they have terminal cancer, just lost a parent (or child), just started getting out on their own after years of abuse...

Think about it. It's not always useful (and its certainly not good for your blood pressure) to assume the negative option when, since you truly don't know, could just as easily assume they are hurting or upset and might be the most gracious person but they're off their game.

Changing that perspective (being on the receiving end when people thought I was horribly rude or broke social/public rules because they thought I considered myself entitled - when nothing could have been further from the truth) was a huge awakening.

A good one, too.

Maybe a bed-ridden friend gave his/her card to his 80 year old best friend, and she had a dizzy spell and left without checking her cart. Maybe... think something up. It helps.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. Well said.

Personally, I do find that my blood pressure is lower when I assume that strangers are under stress rather than idiots or jerks.

[Capn Sunshine]

11. That happened to me, I left them a note on Facebook.

" if you were in Albertsons in Westlake tonight I found your ATM card"
Got a call the next day. Card and owner reunited .

[texanwitch]

12. I did call the 1800 number and everything all right now.

I have already cut up the card, in tiny pieces.

I didn't want the card.

It hadn't been reported yet, so the person does not know.


I guess they know by now or in the morning.

[tblue]

13. If there's a branch of the bank near you, take it there.

Or mail it. Also, call the number on the back of the card and report that you found it.