about a reward for returning lost phone?

[TheArmadillo]

Dp dropped his mobile on way back from work earlier. Someone phoned up to say they had it and dp has collected it.

Dp wants to drop in a thank-you note for returning phone which I think is good cos its nice that the person was honest and phoned a number on it (dp's mum) to say he had found it.

Lodger says we should give them £10 to say thank you. I think that is quite a bit (when we are not brilliantly well off) and a thank you note should be fine.

Lodger thinks I am unreasonable. Am I?

no I did not! But his mother clearly thought he had left his £300 phone at my house for unsavoury reasons

Mine you I took a few random pictures of things in my house with the camera phone bit, just for comedy value

offer him a role play session

have I got the right person? armadillo, role play, lodger, all very friendly together?

buy him a packet of bensons

i found and returned a phone and was given £10, i tried to give it back - i returned it as part of a journey i was taking anyway so didn;t go out of my way. The man was really offended that i didnt want his money so i treated my DC's with it!

pointydog I have no idea what you're talking about

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You have reassured me that I am not being tight or mean. I really don't think money is necessary.

Dp will do thank you note though.

I found a phone and didn't expect any 'reward' but the guy gave us 2 bottles of wine when he came to collect it - we were really surprised , but really pleased! and no we didn't say no!

I once found a mobile phone and made a couple of calls until I tracked down the owner. Turns out he'd come off his motor bike which was why his phone was on the ground in the undergrowth.
When I was looking for a listing of 'home' or 'mum and dad' I could only find entries that looked like nicknames.

It was only when he'd collected it from me and insisted on giving me £50 as a thank you (he was gushing with his thanks on the phone as well and couldn't collect it quickly enough) that it dawned on me that he was possibly a drug dealer!

I wouldn't expect anything except a "thanks" on return of the item. (That's all I did get the one time I found and returned a phone).

Wouldn't expect to have to put myself out to return it, though - which is what the owner of the phone I found wanted me to do

My daughter lost her mobile on the way home from school once and a teenage boy found it and rang me on it ( freaked me out cos she wasn't home and I thought she'd been kidnapped when some guy was using her phone!!!). When I established what had happened we collected the phone from his home and took him some chocolates to say thanks. I wouldn't have offered money tbh.

It's been 15 years. OP is probably over it.