:grin::grin: Giddyup - IMO, there needs to be some understanding coming from your side. Like some others said before you don't know what that lady is going through...you can't expect her to respond to you immediately or bend over backwards. Her intention was to help initially and not to steal the camera so you should be grateful for that. Are you sure she threw the camera at your wife? Or your wife just being dramatic as women can be?
i guess all of you chastising his wife for leaving the camera behind never lost a wallet or your keys huh? as far as the lady who took the camera and her actions, i'd be a bit ticked off too but it would be overridden by the joy of actually getting my camera back.
this. i've heard my own g/f exagerate the details of a confrontation after the fact. even when i was clearly there to witness the whole thing.
Maybe she didn't feel like it was necessary to share her personal story with some total strangers. From what I gather, you first got in touch with her Monday, complained that waiting until Friday was too much to ask, so she made the effort to meet with you about 24 hours after talking to her for the first time. She apparently gave your wife info about her car, but did your wife think to do the same with her car? Perhaps that would have made it much easier for the two of them to find each other. The rest is all assumptions. You have no idea what was going on in her life. You have no idea what kind of communications were going on between her and GS camp - for all you know, the GS camp didn't indicate this was a priority for anyone, so she didn't make it a priority for herself. Maybe the GS camp only really bothered making an effort once you threatened to bring the police in. Maybe the GS camp told her to just bring it by whenever she had some free time. Maybe the GS camp took a week or two to email her each time. Maybe she was out out of the country for a few weeks and wasn't checking email. Probably none of these things are true, but there are a spectrum of 1000 possibilities, and you've clearly picked one on the extreme of her being a jackass. You've already convicted her for being irresponsible, but the reality is that the fact you're working on are pretty limited.
Why bother reading it? I've lived it. I've already buried both of my parents and life, with all its responsibilities, carries on. On the morning of the day my mom died, I had made a plan to meet a guy and ride to Charlotte together the next day. A few hours later, the call comes that my Mother had died. What do you think I did? Did I leave my friend hanging... waiting at the designated spot for me? No, I simply called him back and told him of my mother's passing and let him know that I wouldn't be riding with him to Charlotte. Was it tough? No. Was it right? Yes. You do know that she made no excuse or apology as to why it took 37 days to return valuable property to its rightful owner. If you wish to live in this fantasy world of excusing boorish behavior, go right ahead I guess... :grin:
Sorry that we won't meet in this life, troll. :grin: Only in this place is expecting to be treated decently or fairly or with consideration (See Golden Rule) treated as elitism. Next time someone take $1000 of your property and takes weeks to communicate it and then a few more weeks to return it and tell me how you feel about it. What kind of world do you contribute to?
I could do this but I didn't make the original post to announce that we got our camera back. I made the post because I was shocked that someone was so casual with someone else's valuable property and then acts like she was the one inconvenienced. Camera Lady took the camera in the first place. "I think I know who this belongs to..." is noble but the wrong decision. She should have just left the camera with Camp authorities and called her friend and asked if she had left her camera at camp. When she learned she had screwed up, she took a couple of weeks to let anyone else know. Then she cut off communication. They when word got to her that the authorities would get involved if necessary she "leaps" into action and acts like a wronged party.
It matters not what is going on in her life. Talk about drama! You take someone's valuable property and you return in expeditiously. Period. All of your maybe are conjectures and most are factually wrong. They did have email communication with the lady. Then she stopped responding. 37 days are 37 days. Tha's a fact. Would you, Major, keep someone else's expensive property for 37 days without making some minimal effort to communicate that you have it and intend to return it. She never did that until the 36th day. That is indefensible. I didn't think she was an ******* until she thrust the camera back at my wife and complained about having to make a 10-minute drive. At that point my wife had 2+ hours invested in this trip alone. They exchanged complete car information. One problem: the lady brought a different car and didn't bring her cellphone. Einstein! I've about had enough of feeding the trolls on this matter. I might check back for my own amusement later and I'll respond if so moved. I know that I'm an "elitist" for expecting decent, courteous and fair treatment and for not assuming that she just buried someone she loves... and that's why it took 37 days to return property that didn't belong to her. Everyone deserves to be treated fairly. It's the Golden Rule and it applies to everyone. What's this world coming to?... when that crap gets defended!
I think it's because everyone expected more than a camera being thrown at someone. People crave drama, and some will create it if they don't find it.
Hehe. I understand what giddyup is saying, and it's good he and his wife got the camera back. The lady took too long, and it is understandable that that caused frustration. But I think it can also not be ruled out that giddy is influenced by his wife's more dramatic description of the handover event. Maybe the finder lady "threw" the camera at your wife because your wife got angry at her in her voice, while the finder would have expected some gratefulness instead. Something else: I guess there is no such thing as a finder's reward under Texas law? Under German law (ยง 971 BGB), this lady would actually have been legally entitled to a finder's reward of something like 40 bucks (considering the value of the camera). In fact, most people in Germany, regardless of the law (that says 5 % up to 500 euro value, then 3 % of the value exceeding 500 Euro), choose to give an honest finder 10 % of the value of the lost property as a reward, as a rule of thumb. Now I understand that the frustration about the delay would make a gesture like this even more difficult, but on the other hand, there is always the chance that someone else would have just taken it and never come out, then you would never have gotten the camera back. P.S.: This thread could probably be blown up to 100 pages if giddy were to share the races of the parties involved and they were not the same .
