It is 9:00 pm, it is raining, and you are hungry. You are on your way home from a long workday. You only have $5 in your wallet, so you decide to go to a fast-food drive-through restaurant to get dinner. You carefully order so as not to exceed your $5 limit. You hand the drive-through employee your $5, and he gives you change and your meal. You place it all in the passenger's seat and drive home. When you get home, you discover that the fast-food employee gave you change for $20. What do you do?

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Ally Watson

Social Studies

29 August, 19:23

It is 9:00 pm, it is raining, and you are hungry. You are on your way home from a long workday. You only have $5 in your wallet, so you decide to go to a fast-food drive-through restaurant to get dinner. You carefully order so as not to exceed your $5 limit. You hand the drive-through employee your $5, and he gives you change and your meal. You place it all in the passenger's seat and drive home. When you get home, you discover that the fast-food employee gave you change for $20. What do you do?

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Phoebe Bryan · Answer 1

I would act with utmost honesty & integrity, & return back the extra change mistakenly received by me.

Explanation:

I think the entire scenario is a matter of honesty & integrity.

If I had mistakenly taken change of $20 against having given $5 at a fas food drive. I would try contacting the 'fast food drive through restaurant' & communicate them that I have mistakenly got extra money change. Thereafter, I would pay them back the balance money by online transferring it, or while going to office the next day.

If their contact details are not being found, or are not approachable : I would directly opt for the 2nd option, ie return them the change while going back to work the next day.