From the headlines.
I would have returned the diamonds too, that's not the point. A 30 cent tip...and after the guy misses a day of work trying to return the diamonds she only gives him a lousy C note?
To me the jeweler is a piece of shit and did the barest minimum for the cab driver.
What do you think?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17024253/?GT1=9033
NEW YORK - A taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride.
Hours after Osman Chowdhury dropped off the passenger, he tracked her down through a flurry of phone calls and returned the bag, which she had left in the taxi’s trunk.
The unidentified woman, who said she was a jeweler, offered a $100 reward.
Chowdhury accepted the money to cover the fares he lost while tracking her down.
Chowdhury, a native of Bangladesh, told the New York Daily News that he didn’t so much as consider keeping the gems.
“I’m a hard worker,” the soft-spoken cabbie said. “I enjoy my life. I’m satisfied. I’m not going to take someone else’s money or property to make me rich. I don’t want it that way.”
“When I find something left in my cab, and I can return it to the owner, I feel very happy. I feel proud,” he said.
posted by Bill Rowland @ February 07, 2007
23 Comments
23 Comments:
The News should have published the jewelers name and business name so locals would know to avoid her/it. She'd then learn gratitude. Shame is an underutilized tool.
The jeweler didn't deserve her rings back for only that.
The cab driver was incredibly nice to her - despite his initial horrible tip, and she was a stingy and ungrateful after all the time and effor that he spent, that many people would not have.
Where is the karma that rewards him ? Unless it is just that his attitude is so benevolent and good. And that doesn't seem like enough.
And where is the karma that kicks that jeweler's self-absorbed butt ???
Jewelers are no fuc*ing good. They are thieving losers. I hope she ends up losing them again only next time for good...in the bronx. After a gang rape. Would serve her right.
That jeweler is gonna get hers. What an evil beee-atch. Not nice. She should've given the cabbie at least a grand, and apologized for being cheap on the earlier ride tip.
Oh, and I agree with Stucco. They should've published the jeweler's name to shame her cheap ass.
I would return them too. Funny thing about karma. She better watch her ass.
Years ago, I found a bag at the station. The bag contained a box, and inside the box, there were 21 raw diamonds in small plastic bags and a receipt with the adress of the buyer, a local goldsmith. I have to admit that I struggled a bit, because I was really poor at that time, and the sum would have solved more than all my problems. But finally my better self won. I called the goldsmith. He asked me to bring the stuff, and so I did. "Thank you", he said, and: "Have a nice day." That was all.
stucco: I agree I think shame is powerful and underused as well.
Annie: That jeweler got very lucky and like you said is too self absorbed to know it. I hope KArma kicks in for the driver and the skinflint.
Intolerant: lol I've read your experiences with jewelers and I tend to agree..dunno about the gang rape part though, sounds like an old charlie bronson movie.
e: thanks for visiting: It sounds like from your experience cheapness is not uncommon in jewelers. If you have a website or blog I'd be happy to visit just send me an email.
James Burnett: I would have done a grand for sure or at least made a huge deal out of the return of the rings and maybe gave him one for his trouble.
carrie: Definitely
I think Jewelers are such pieces of crap because they know they are dealing in worthless junk anyway. Rewarding someone for returning a bag of diamonds to them would be like giving a reward for the return of a fire place log. Finding them and keeping them wouldn't yield the money a thieving jeweler would get after her 500% mark up. Giving them back is the right thing to do. Waiting for what goes around to come back around is the sweetest revenge. She'll pay one day. Dearly. They all will. Every jeweler will pay. hahahahahaha!
Damn.
Someone's conscience is more active than mine.
With that kind of stinginess I'd have just kept them. Or sold them to another jeweler.
- ISU Tinkerer
That was really crappy! The cabbie was nice an honest, most peopole, including myself, probably would have kept the bag...or shit in it and then returned it!
I hope I end up in Osman Chowdhury's cab one day. I'll give him an extra good tip to make up for the cheap ass jeweler.
She could take lessons from him...don't you think?
I hope that the jeweler felt bad later about her shitty behavior towards the cabbie, but I doubt that her heart of stone would allow that.
Doesn't say much for the person who gave him the $100! He deserved much more!
Stucco pegged it right off. Hell of a nice guy.
Was at a party once back in the 80s where a diamond seller was bragging about how he'd been robbed of a few bags of cubic zirconium, fake diamonds, but he told his insurance company they were real, and they were paying him off. Crooks everywhere, which is why we love to read about guys like this.
Amazing. This is good example of two opposites one incredibly honest good soul and the other evil ungrateful bitch.
Justice must be done!
I think that the good karma the cabbie earned is worth more than any monetary reward that cheapskate jeweler could have given him.
As my Dad would have said, "Son. That just ain't raht."
The Bible's take on karma is, "whatsoever a man soweth, that he shall also reap."
I'm with your other commenters. Both will get back just compensation for what they put into that situation.
Still, it makes me mad to read about stuff like that. The immigrant guy has a much better handle on life and what America should be about.
Hammer, I have not met another jeweller since, so I cannot even guess whether stinginess is especially spread among them. But the objects they can lose when absent-minded seem to be more precious than those I can afford to keep safe. Maybe it is really the stinginess which makes the difference; I guess wealth does not come from giving generous rewards.
As I am not gifted when it comes to tell a story, I do neither have a blog nor a website. But I like your blog and visit it regularly. If I should ever develop a talent in writing and start my own blog, I would be pleased to welcome you there.
Thank you E: I appreciate that.
I was told by a very rich person that: "nice guys pump gas" I've never subscribed to that theory although it's probably somewhat true.
Hammer, if you knew which "theories" I generated on the meanings of the sentence till I remembered that overseas gas is fluid at standard conditions :)
I would not subscribe either; I have met rich people who were really nice, and poor guys who did their best to prove the existence of full body anal orifices. But I can see the point. It is an odd thing: we try to teach our children kindness, while everyday life rewards the tough guys.
p/s It is very difficult to get rid of that leprosy diapers thing in my head.
E: Sometimes I take our colloquialisms for granted.
The menial labor job of pumping gas (petrol) hardly exists anymore.
Sometimes it seems nice guys finish last but I'm not running in the same race.
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