From WBEZ Chicago, it's this American Life.
I'm Ira glass.
Example number one.
When she was 19, Lenore had a job selling tickets at a haunted mansion tourist attraction near Orlando, Florida.
One day, she found in a stairwell a wallet someone dropped.
Leather, she says, with a green rubber band, tons of cash inside, like a vacationer brings on a big trip.
It seemed obvious what to do next.
She should figure out how to give it back.
But two of the guys she worked with were like, let's not.
Let's keep the money.
And if they come back looking for it, we can say, we don't have it, we didn't find it, and they'll never know.
And I said, no, we have to return it.
And they start telling me how ridiculous I'm being, and I'm such a goody two shoes, and why am I like this?
Why?
Who knows?
But the one time that she tried shoplifting when she was 10, on a dare, she couldn't stand it and returned the pack of gum and apologized.
Honor was also excited at the idea that she could be a hero.
That the guy on the ID and the wallet would come in and be.
Like, excuse me, have you seen my wallet?
And I'd say, here it is.