Shane Cole Lilly was playing games at the Chuck E. Cheese’s in Hampton when he spotted a large wad of cash on the floor. He picked it up and immediately asked a nearby man if he had dropped the money. The man took Shane Cole to restaurant manager Denice Hodge, and the child told her where he’d found the cash.
The $301 belonged to another patron who had just cashed her weekly paycheck and was relieved to have the money returned.
‘We’re very proud of him,’ Adkins said of her son. ‘You never know how they’ll react in a situation like that, but he did the right thing.’
When asked who taught him to be so honest, the boy simply responded, ‘God.’
Now contrast this to all the excuses, prevarications, and nonsense someone at the age of 30 would have offered as arguments to keep the money.
God. What a great answer.
(h/t to Bearing Drift
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