This anonymous troper was once given a chance to utterly destroy one of his hated enemies using information about his personal life (including his address, phone number, and information about his family.) When he told his ex-girlfriend (who had cheated on him with this scumbag) what he could do with this information, she told him that she would keep it a secret and that no one would ever know. troper ended up never doing anything with the information and instead moved on with his life, forgetting about the both of them.

Online quizzes, at least when this troper was smaller, have a tendency to ask what you would do if you found $20 lying on the ground/floor of a public place. Always answered that it'd be kept, up until the scenario actually happened. A crowded hallway, nobody would've known, was made late for my next class by taking to the L&F.

I "failed" that test by pocketing it and walking away.

This troper feels that this is an idiotic manifestation of this trope. If it's on the ground, in public, it no longer belongs to anybody. This is not a test of ethics or character. What are you going to do, put an ad for it on craigslist? How on Earth would you know that the true owner is the one coming forward? If it were someone's wallet, or you saw it fall out of someone's pocket, then I get it, but if it's just a twenty dollar bill sitting on the ground, there is absolutely nothing unethical about keeping it. Count your blessings. Buy yourself some lunch, give some of it to a homeless person if that makes you feel better. But if you lose cash, it's lost. It's not a question of ethics or character, it's just impossible to determine who dropped it. I promise, if I ever am in a situation where I lose a twenty dollar bill, and someone finds it and somehow tracks me down to give it to me, I will call them an idiot to their face and tell them they should have kept it. Though rest assured, I WILL take it back. On another note, this troper now resolves to periodically go to the lost and found of various establishments, tell them I lost a twenty dollar bill, and ask if anybody found it.

My brother found a $5, underwater, that had apparently fallen out of someone's pocket. He kept it. I've come across money once or twice, and kept it, unless the person who may have dropped it is in front of me.

When it comes to "No one will ever know" scenarios, the rub for this Troper is always ''how do you know for sure no one will ever know?'' Did you check the area for hidden cameras and/or listening devices? Did you make sure no one was hiding nearby, maybe behind those curtains or that tree? Were you careful not to leave anything incriminating behind when it came to abscond? How can you be 100% certain nobody will ever find you out, possibly even by some other means you failed to account for? All of these are questions you would do well to consider before you do something in the dark you wouldn't want brought to light...

There's this thing called paranoia, you may want to read a little bit on that and maybe see a professional.

It isn't paranoia if they really ''are'' out to get you.

Yes, it is. If you ''know'' for a fact that they're after you then it isn't, but it is if you're just an idiot whose foolish fantasy just happens to be correct.

This troper was taking a test in math, and one portion was with no graphing calculator, the other with it. However, the sheet was doublesided so one could easily go back at the end and put the equations in to find the answer, and the teacher wasn't really paying much attention. This troper wasn't sure of one of his answers, and was thinking about putting it in and correcting it. After a few minutes of internal deliberation, he decided not to do it. A few days later, he got his text back. He got a 62, and the answer was wrong. He would have passed it if he cheated, but he still feels like he did the right thing.

Extremely minor example occurred with this tropette finding FIVE CENTS on the ground. Problem was, it was right outside the canteen at a Boys and Girls Club, and five cents could be the difference between affording lunch and not. I turned it into the lost and found and got some weird looks.

More than once, this troper has seen a packet of cigarettes or some such thing fall out of someone's pocket. Particularly on the bus. He had no qualms whatsoever with putting them into his own, even moments after worrying greatly that something similar had happened to him with something considerably more expensive. It would've been incredibly easy to give them back, too. What can I say, I'm a bit of a douche