Lack of manners

[ladywaterwind]

I'm not so much hot under the collar, as just a little peeved about this. And let me start by saying I can appreciate why this person wasn't as polite or mindful of their manners as I believe they should have been.

After our meal on Thanksgiving afternoon it was still a pretty nice early evening time here so we went to the local park to take a little walk. Our daughter is running like a banshee from the get go, my husband and I are going at a more sedate pace and we pass a small clearing on the side of the trail with some benches and I happen to see a credit card laying on the ground there.

No one was around, we picked it up, it was a store credit card and we were debating whether to drive it to a location or to look up the name of the cardholder, etc and we finally decided to just call the number on the back of it and see what a service rep suggested.

DH goes through the whole menu and finally gets ahold of someone, tells them we found the card, don't know if someone had dropped it or if someone had stolen it and ditched it there, but we thought we should let someone somewhere know so they could take care of it to protect the cardholder. They get the card information, say they're deactivating it, we can cut it up and toss it.

About 20 minutes later we're done with our walk and are loading up into the truck when a car parks with a mother and daughter set, it looked like, and both were adults in age. The daughter takes off and leaves the mom, and we can see the bench where we found the card and that's where she's running and the mother is coming along after, so I pop out of the truck and hail them down and ask if they lost their card, turns out yes that was them, I get my husband out of the truck cause he had it on him, and we tell them what happened and that we called their company to let them know we found the card.

The mother says uh oh when I say they cancelled the card and she starts hailing the daughter who catches up with us at about the time my husband does and he's handing them the card and the daughter just takes it and huffs off. The mother does thank us for being honest and then walks away and we leave.

Now, it's not the mothers card, and I can understand that bills need paid and it's the start of the holiday shopping really, and black friday was coming that night and what a PAIN that would be to deal with, especially since it was just that 20 minutes from when we had called the company, though who knows how long it had been since she'd lost the card. I still think the daughter should have said, you know, something, to us and not acted like we had caused her a problem by doing the right thing by her.

I mean, me, yeah I would be upset, but I would be more thankful that someone like us had found it and not someone who decided to use it or take advantage of it and cause her a bigger problem down the line. I would take the hassle of waiting for a replacement card over the oh holy crap problem of identity theft any day.

Oh well, they were going to call the company to see if they could reinstate the card and hopefully that worked out for them.

[CW&M Mom]

See my dread that knowing my card isn't purchasing someone's big screen TV is over..I'd be hugging you!!!

Sorry people weren't using there noggin!!!!

[shashabell]

Unappreciative little brat. I hate when someone messes up like she did and knows she did and then gets mad at everyone else and tries to make it seem like it's their fault for the way things turn out.

[JulieDB]

Wow.

A few months ago we found a dog in our yard. It was a little one and it seemed very frightened. Dog had a collar and tag so we put it in the backyard to keep it safe and called the owner who didn't answer the phone. I was about to go to the store and get some dishes and food when the owner called. She got a little nasty with me. Said I shouldn't have put it in my backyard and to let it loose so it could come home. Said it did that all the time.

Well we tried that. Dog ran right out into the street. Busy street.

Eventually two children came to get it. Then two women who said they were not at all related to the dog but heard and the commotion and came to see. My concern was that the dog was limping. But nobody who had a connection to the dog would listen to me. Gah!

[jkljkl]

The daughter was rude. I bet the mother was embarassed about how her daughter acted.

I've had my own share of rudeness from daughters of my friends. One of my friends hosted a baby shower for her 22 year old daughter, who was pregnant. I (and most her friends) had never even met her daughter, but the mom invited me and so I went. I brought her a nice gift. At the shower, the daughter complained loudly that people had not bought many gifts from her registry. She also never wrote me a thank you note. Its not that I'm upset about it, I'm just amazed at what a freaking brat she is. Here was her mom, hosting a nice shower for her daughter, inviting people that didn't even know her daughter, we were gracious enough to come anyway, and we have to listen to a bratty 22-year old whine about her gifts & not even thank us.

[bigsweetie]

What a brat!

Maybe it's one of those things where she was frantic about losing her card and just wasn't thinking clearly when it was finally returned, but unusable. She may have felt bad for her reaction later on.

Last week I lost my purse in Kohl's for about 10 minutes. I did eventually find it and nothing was removed, but for those 10 minutes I was frantic and not very clear headed.

It's not an excuse though. Good job for doing the right thing! The world needs more honest people like you!

[Clipper]

Since her mother had the decency to thank you, I'm sure she read her daughter the riot act for being rude to you later. Now she feels bad and ashamed and can't apologize because she doesn't know you. It's a learning moment for her.

[peggy47]

Some kids are brats....did anyone see that show about the parents who were helping their kids purchase a house...think it is called...My house, Your Money or something like that....Wed. nite a girl was on there and she was such a brat....her Mom was giving her 20 thousand and her daughter said something to the effect "can't you give us more...I won't live in that house unless it's remodeled" When the mother told her the well was dry the daughter said she was going to call her Mom's accountant! What a BRAT....the mother did end up giving her more money.....Sometimes people are just rude and ungrateful!!!!!!

[shashabell]

Ah the story about the shower and gifts made me think about something that happened at work more than 10 years ago. Us girls were having a Secret Santa exchanged and we pulled names from a hat. This one girl threw a fit because she didn't want the person's name that she drew. She said, "I wanted anyone but this person." I could not believe she said this in front of all of us who were in the drawing. Me being nice (lol) told her that I would trade her names and I would take her pick and she could have my person that I picked. She declined and kept the name she drew. Well, at the exchange, guess who's name she had? MINE!

[bigsweetie]

Ah the story about the shower and gifts made me think about something that happened at work more than 10 years ago. Us girls were having a Secret Santa exchanged and we pulled names from a hat. This one girl threw a fit because she didn't want the person's name that she drew. She said, "I wanted anyone but this person." I could not believe she said this in front of all of us who were in the drawing. Me being nice (lol) told her that I would trade her names and I would take her pick and she could have my person that I picked. She declined and kept the name she drew. Well, at the exchange, guess who's name she had? MINE!

OMG! That is hilarious!!

What did she get you? And did you say anything to her when she handed it to you?