I kind of agree with those thinking you are being too negative here. Sounds as if she could have easily kept the camera and no one would have known any better... and you'd be **** out of luck. Sure, maybe you'd see her with the camera later on, but it's not like these things are amazingly unique - maybe they have a serial number or something, but it's by no meansout of the question you and stranger would have the same camera model. In other words, she probably wasn't ever trying to steal the camera, as evidenced by the fact that she didn't steal the camera. With regards to the time delays... again, you're probably being a bit too harsh. You don't know what's going on in this lady's life. She could be dealing with a sick loved one. Maybe she has 3 or 4 little kids at home. Maybe she was travelling on business.... probably none of the above, but point is, you don't know. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time. You keep looking at it as "if I picked up someone else's $1,000 camera you bet I'd be returning it asap!"... when in reality it is just as fair (if not more so) to look at it as "if I saved someone's $1,000 from being lost forever, it might take me a few days to arrange a meeting to give it back to them" With regards to the mix up at the pickup location - no excuse for that. but then, we again only have your story. for all we know, she said one vehicle make and model, but then changed her mind, told your wife on the call, but your wife forgot? again... not very likely, but mistakes do happen. sounds like the lady went back home, immediately called your wife, and proceeded to drive back out and return the camera. As for the laizze fair way she returned the camera, with the potential to damage it... well, no excuse again, but whether for her own stupidity or other reasons, the camera was clearly becoming a big pain in her ass at that point, with you threatening to call the police (for what exactly, I'm not sure?). My two cents.
Why do you say that? It would have been picked up by one of the Girl Scout Counselors as they swept the pick-up area. Chances are that they would be more thoughtful and responsible than she was. Probably true... but why stop responding to their emails and sit on her ass for a month? That's peculiar. Since she walked off with it in the first place.... TOUGH ****. For doing the ABSOLUTELY RIGHT thing? When you had a part in creating the confusion? And allowed it to persist? Don't get me wrong, I'm relieved that she did what she should have done, but I'm not going to go overboard thanking her for doing the right thing when she acts all put out about it. BTW, I never met the chick.
Dr. Lucicrous? Well-named! Obviously my wife shouldn't have left her camera, but you know what she did when she discovered it? She immediately called the authorities at the property. What did Miss Do-Right do? She called them after 10 days, then ignored some efforts on the part of the GS crew to contact her and then leapt into action (28 days later) when we threatened to involve the police to facilitate getting our $1,000 camera back. Finders-Keepers is a childhood rhyme of taunting not a reality...
giddy, I think you have some fair points but that lady didn't have to tell anyone if she wanted to keep the camara.
In what world is that acceptable? I've said several times that I don't think she was trying to steal the camera.... but to stop communicating with the GScouts. If I had a thousand dollars of someone else's property that I had picked up mistakenly, I'd go out of my way to return it. My wife drove 40 minutes; she drove 10. She's a stay-at-home mom. My wife was willing and ready to drive to her house and pick up the camera. She just need to know when and where. It took 37 days to ascertain when and where. Again, if I had a thousand dollars worth of someone else's property, I would hustle to let them know where it was and facilitate it's return. No one is that busy... There was only one conversation so no changes in plan. They lady called my wife because my wife left a couple of messages... "Hey, I'm here at the parking lot.... why aren't you answering your phone and BTW where are you?" We called the police because she had admitted a few weeks earlier that she had a camera that didn't belong to her and she stopped responding to inquiries to get it back. What would you conclude? I talked to the GSs and asked them to call me back in a couple of days. When they didn't, I wrote them a letter putting them on notice that I would involve the authorities if necessary if I didn't hear from them soon. I acknowledged that they were not responsible but that they were, in fact, witnesses as they had had all the communication with the lady. The GSs called me the day they got the letter and provided the information that we needed to get the camera back. Whatever happened to the days of a handshake and a smile?
Who would have thought that women would make such a huge dramatic production over something so simple? woman = drama
true. I think both women can take plenty of blame. I'm sure giddyup got his wifes side of the story, which makes the other women look worse than she actually was...women do tend to over exaggerate afterall. And the Camera lady is probably making Mrs. G look worse in her story. I understand giddyup taking sides with his wife and all, a husband should.
Guys... facts are facts. Campout ended May 1. Yesterday was June 7. Nothing constructive happened until we promised to bring in the authorities-- after 34 days of being stonewalled. My wife is completely at fault for leaving the camera. She knows that. That stuff happens. What happened to a world where we assist one another with a satisfying spirit of helpfulness rather than being irresponsible and careless when it comes to remedying wrongs that we are involved in?
because he had to listen to his wife b**** about it for the last month so it's ingrained into his head.
While this is true but exaggerated, I'm a student of human behavior. What this woman did, I cannot fathom doing to someone so I think it is worthy of open discussion. If you don't, don't read and you don't have to post...
you can't fathom a woman being scatter brained, bad at returning messages, lack of detailed planning and bad at direction?
i am also a student of human behavior. what you are doing i cannot fathom doing. because of that i have to read and post.
Just go away. You are being nothing but meddlesome. Maybe if it was your thousand dollar camera, you'd feel differently. I expect more out of people; evidently you do not. Is that true?
As many have and continue to point out to you, you're being overly dramatic about this. You recognize she wasn't trying to steal the camera - though you continue to insinuate that maybe there was something going on there because it took the threat of police action to get her to respond. Maybe she is just really really really dumb and thought, why don't I tell them I have their camera but then ignore all communication going forward and just steal it. Sure, it's a possibility. But, let's just assume she never intended to steal the camera because she easily could have but didn't. And let's further assume she especially never intended to steal the camera after letting you know she had it... because that'd be stupid. So your only complaint is that things took her a little longer to work through than it would have taken you. Got it. I don't think it's a big deal. I'd certainly be inconvienced and upset a bit in your shoes, but I can also envision myself taking my sweet ass time to respond to you if I was in her shoes...
1. It should have taken one day. My wife called the Scout Camp on Monday, May 2nd. She could have done the same and we would have had the camera back on May 3rd. 2. What justifies anyone taking "(their) sweet ass time" when they wrongly have someone else's valuable property? She handled the matter terribly. I would never treat someone like that. I'm not sure what motivates any of you to excuse her behavior. She made no such excuses for herself: no sick family members. no business trips. no episodes of amnesia. She just didn't want the inconvenience of driving 10 minutes when my wife would have gladly come straight to her door and saved her that time. I guess doing the right thing is passe...
people should also not go slow in the fast lane, use their blinkers, donate blood and donate to quality charities.
