Will Your Lost Wallet Be Returned?

Makes sense. A wallet with nothing in it isn't worth going to the trouble of tracking down the owner. The more valuable it is, the more important it is to find the owner.
It's worth treating the opinion makers, business leaders, economists and politicians who say otherwise with deep suspicion. Such people are probably the type who'd rob you of your last penny if they could get away with it and just make themselves feel better by saying everybody is as bad as they are.
Really, most of the people I've met in my life were pretty good at heart, even if flawed, but the very worst have nearly always been those who complained the loudest about how rotten and bad everyone else was. Some are depressed and that's different, but the rest were often people describing themselves really. Just bad people making out that everyone is bad to justify their own nastiness.

I have had a positive experience with a wallet. I had stopped at a public library and wanted to make some photocopies, so I removed my wallet from my purse and laid it on a table near the photocopier while I made copies. When I was finished, I forgot to pick the wallet up and I had just withdrawn nearly fifty dollars from an ATM. After I left the library and boarded a bus, and had rode about seven blocks, I realized that I had forgotten my wallet. I didn't notice it right away because I kept my bus pass in different part of my purse. I frantically disembarked, and ran nearly five blocks, praying hard that I would get my wallet back. When I reached the library, I went back to the photocopier, planning to ask the librarian about it if I didn't find my wallet. There is still sat, exactly where I had left it! There were a few people sitting at the table and they gave me suspicious looks when I scooped it up; they probably thought I had no morals or scruples.