上星期天和儿子到一小店逛街. 看到一女士包，没多想，捡起来 还给了几米外的收银人。Continued to shop in the same store but in other areas.

I was smiling, thinking the owner would be so thankful and share it with her family members in dinner。就象以前有人退还我在Walmart 丢在购物车的包时，我是多么的感激。

Half hour later when I was ready to check out, the cashier told me that the owner said about $100 was lost. My jaw was dropped and felt deeply hurt. Some strategies I thought about to protect myself were:

1. I didn\'t even open her purse, so I don\'t have fingertips.
2. If she didn\'t lie, anybody could steal the money before I returned it.

还好店员和老板都相信我， 说那个女大学生看起来很fishy. The sad thing is NOW I will be afraid of my own shadow. 来美多年做好事少有心理障碍， now I promised to myself that next time I see something, I will let the security people to pick it up instead of returning it myself.