Bonus: stories from Internet users about how pleasant honesty can be
"Once, as I was getting out of my car on a winter evening in −22°F weather, I saw a glove in the snow. I picked it up and brought it to the concierge. It turned out that the glove was mine. It has been there for 3 days."
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Trudy 3 year s ago
No stories from Seattle?
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Missy 3 year s ago
In most parts of Denmark the "culture enrichers" will pick that stall clean of produce and money. So it's a dying thing here due to influence from the very south :-(
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Justina 3 year s ago
#16 I don't mean to spoil your fun, but it reads "field and cashbox are under surveillance".
Germans don't joke around. If someone volunteers on a regular basis, we call it "Ehrenamt" – honorable office. No laughing matter. Move along.
Germans don't joke around. If someone volunteers on a regular basis, we call it "Ehrenamt" – honorable office. No laughing matter. Move along.
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Joshua 3 year s ago
Justina,
i wouldn't go so far as to translate this to 'under surveilance'.. that implies to me that there's a camera on it. (it would translate to overwatch, but that doesn't make sense in this context:) i'd say "are checked"
i wouldn't go so far as to translate this to 'under surveilance'.. that implies to me that there's a camera on it. (it would translate to overwatch, but that doesn't make sense in this context:) i'd say "are checked"
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Joshua 3 year s ago
#17 "Everything that you collect in your stomach is free."
..you're missing the point here!
..you're missing the point here!
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Joshua 3 year s ago
the thing is: if you mess with an honesty box, the owner will eventually take it away. It works because the people make it work. it takes just one mofo to foul it up.
In the netherlands, around me in a circle of about 10km that is, I see a lot of these: eggs, tomatoes, strawberries, pumpkins, mushrooms, books, milk, etc.
yeah, the world isn't bad, there's just a few d@#ks that spoil it.
In the netherlands, around me in a circle of about 10km that is, I see a lot of these: eggs, tomatoes, strawberries, pumpkins, mushrooms, books, milk, etc.
yeah, the world isn't bad, there's just a few d@#ks that spoil it.
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Roberta 3 year s ago
Joshua,
it helps to see the world and get out of your homogeneous echo chamber.
it helps to see the world and get out of your homogeneous echo chamber.
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Joshua 3 year s ago
Roberta,
keep up that negativity!
keep up that negativity!
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Roberta 3 year s ago
just half of them are sh#tty in the US. set up one of these and the poor will rob you. mostly see these in welfare states. they are enabler boxes.
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Horace 3 year s ago
Never willingly volunteer anything you don't mind seeing lost, stolen or ruined. Far too many people today have no concept of conscience or self control.
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Ced 3 year s ago
Not now, but in the past, I've lived in places that you couldn't do the "honesty box" thing. They would take everything you have AND the honesty box!!! 
Germans don't joke around. If someone volunteers on a regular basis, we call it "Ehrenamt" – honorable office. No laughing matter. Move along.
i wouldn't go so far as to translate this to 'under surveilance'.. that implies to me that there's a camera on it. (it would translate to overwatch, but that doesn't make sense in this context:) i'd say "are checked"
..you're missing the point here!
In the netherlands, around me in a circle of about 10km that is, I see a lot of these: eggs, tomatoes, strawberries, pumpkins, mushrooms, books, milk, etc.
yeah, the world isn't bad, there's just a few d@#ks that spoil it.
it helps to see the world and get out of your homogeneous echo chamber.
keep up that negativity!