To find a lost wallet and keep the money inside

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Today I found a wallet on the floor in ASDA. A decent leather, heavy wallet with credit cards inside etc. I quickly handed it into a security guard who then handed it into customer services. Told DH and he asked if I kept the money inside? He was half joking but said that he would keep the cash as a “finders fee” and that it served the boomer right for dropping their wallet (it was a wallet of an older man)

Tried to talk to him, would he really keep the money he found and he would! Although he then accused me of starting a fight.

Just ask him how he would like that done to him.
He's sounds awful.

@Motomum23 I had something similar back in 1980 when I was 16, but the wallet I found in the road had well over £1k in it, a huge amount of money at that time. I handed it in to the police, and it was claimed, and I remember my dad raging that the "tight bastard" who'd claimed it could have at least given £20 to the 16 year old girl who handed it in. But then he also wasn't convinced that someone at the police station hadn't pocketed it. I would still hand a found wallet in though.

Oh the irony if you were to leave him…losing his wife and family would definitely serve him right! He doesn’t sound like a very nice person; you deserve better, OP.

loose cash is fair game unless you saw it dropped. but money from someones wallet is not.

Why are you with him, OP?!!

That strikes me as really stupid. It surely would make people inclined to just not bother picking up/handing in a wallet

I would be asking him to leave - and telling him that losing me serves him right for being so mean and callous

In all seriousness - you cannot let this arsehole keep speaking the way he does in front of your dc