Pencils on the ground are for keeps?

[Agent Proto]

Ok, you find a pencil, a very good pencil. One of those good mechanical pencils with plenty of lead and the eraser is still intact. This pencil is on the ground, and no one around is particularly looking for a missing pencil. Do you pick up the pencil and keep it, or do you leave it alone?

In fact, when I find a good pencil or pen on the ground, I'll pick it up and keep it to myself. However, if I saw someone dropped a pencil, I'll give it back to them because it's rightfully theirs, but if not, then I'm keeping the pencil.

What about you? What do you do when you find a pencil or pen on the ground?

[Linus]

This is the same question I asked, but replacing $3 with a "nice pencil." You're the terrible person now, HA!

[Erdrick Holmes]

Thats how I have so many Mechanical pencils. I found them on the ground.

[Madonna]

If it's been obviously abandoned, as in no possible owners in the area, it's mine. If I think it could be someone's who just recently went out a door or something, I'll try to return it. If it isn't theirs, it's mine.

It's a pretty vague rule, but it works for me. I lend out pencils and don't have them returned, so it's an almost balance.

[Agent Proto]

This is the same question I asked, but replacing $3 with a "nice pencil." You're the terrible person now, HA!

WRONG!!!

Three dollars fell out of my friend's pocket today, so I picked it up and kept it.

Do you call that the same as this one?

Ok, you find a pencil, a very good pencil. One of those good mechanical pencils with plenty of lead and the eraser is still intact. This pencil is on the ground, and no one around is particularly looking for a missing pencil. Do you pick up the pencil and keep it, or do you leave it alone?

In fact, when I find a good pencil or pen on the ground, I'll pick it up and keep it to myself. However, if I saw someone dropped a pencil, I'll give it back to them because it's rightfully theirs, but if not, then I'm keeping the pencil.

What about you? What do you do when you find a pencil or pen on the ground?

Your thread was basically telling us what you did and had a poll asking whether it's right or not about what YOU forking did! This thread is basically asking whether you would keep a pencil found from the ground with no one there to claim it. Not that same question! *smacks Linus*

[Del Murder]

Your thread was basically telling us what you did and had a poll asking whether it's right or not about what YOU forking did!

Wolf!

The pencil is up for grabs.

[Andex]

What kind of question is this? Even if the owner is in the area looking for it, i still keep that trout!

[Logan]

Nah. I have my own pencils. And who knows where that pencil has been! :O

[Shlup]

In fact, when I find a good pencil or pen on the ground, I'll pick it up and keep it to myself. However, if I saw someone dropped a pencil, I'll give it back to them because it's rightfully theirs, but if not, then I'm keeping the pencil.

I would say it works that way with most things.

[Agent Proto]

I would say it works that way with most things.

True, but I'm talking about pencils here! Stick to the topic missy! *snap snap*

[frr_vegeta]

The pencil was probably mine in the first place. Regardless, if it's free, I'll take it.

[fire_of_avalon]

I like wooden pencils.

[RSL]

I probably would just ignore it. Not that I see pencils lying around all the time.

[Ran Ciel]

Replace pencil with dimension/time-travelling royal necklace, and you've got a deal my friend.

[escobert]

I only use pens.