So after church this evening my friends and I went to Wal*Mart to price out food for our camping trip this weekend. I pulled into the parking lot, get out of my car, and as I was headed to the Food Center entrance I noticed a nice, barely used phone laying on the ground.

"Oh look! A phone!"

It looked almost brand new. I looked around to see if anyone was walking away in the parking lot and might have dropped it, but there was no one else walking in that aisle. I looked in the contacts list to see a number for "Home" or "Mom" but didn't see anything. So I decided to call Diana, whoever she is. But Diana wasn't accepting calls at that time. Keep scrolling through contacts to see who else I can call. Finally I see "Dad." I don't know how I missed that the first time.

Turns out Dad is in Nashville, Tennessee, so there is no way he's coming to pick up the phone. I told him what store we were at and that we could wait for someone to come pick up the phone if he could get in contact with someone else to pick it up. We eventually decided to leave the phone at customer service for the guy's sister to come pick up. Turns out this dude just got back from boot camp, too.

Hopefully he got his phone back.

But I felt really good the rest of the night, knowing that I did the right thing. Very easily could have taken the SIM card out and sold it, or even kept the phone. But I knew what the right thing to do was.

It reminds me of that commercial where one person does something nice for someone else, and that person turns around and does a good deed to another person, and it eventually goes in a circle all the way back to the first guy who did something nice. Yah, that one. Maybe this will inspire some people to do something nice for someone they don't even know. God knows this world needs that.

+5 Karma points.