Honesty in Action Honesty In Action. A young systems administrator at IBM in Cambridge, Massachusetts took a taxi cab ride home to his apartment on a recent Friday night. Seconds after getting out of the cab, he realized that he had forgotten his backpack. He turned to see the cab disappear into the night. The backpack contained an IBM ThinkPad storing billions of bytes of pictures, music, email, financial data, and important business information. In addition were his digital camera, stereo headset, and various other computer and electronic devices. Calls to both the taxi company and the police department yielded recorded messages that were less than helpful. Ten days later came a telephone call from Issam. (read more) [John Patrick's weblog]
I recently had a similar experience. And when good experiences happen you should share them.
When I took a cab to the airport in DC the other week, my Treo fell out of my bag into the cab. Luckily my colleague Ed called the number shortly after. The cabbie went out of his way to drop it off at my hotel (Georgetown Inn, has broadband, reccomended) and the hotel FedEx'ed it to me free of charge. Cabbies have it tough these days. The price of fuel and decrease in volume barely make it worthwhile to roll. I wish I had a way to thank him.
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