UNGRATEFUL REWARD

A single mother holding down two jobs finds a wallet containing $1,000 and returns it to the owner who gives her only $20 dollars as a reward

You would expect that a mother who is hard up for cash, but returns a lost wallet containing $1,000, would get a decent reward from the owner. That was not the case in Fargo, N.D. on Monday.

The Associated Press reports that Sadie Hill and her seven-year-old daughter, Adalee, found the wallet containing $1,000 in a Fargo parking lot.

Hill works two jobs to make ends meet and could have really used the money she found. But as an example for Adalee, she decided to do the right and honorable thing. "The only option was to return it,” she said. “But, I called my mom and I said, 'You know, God is really testing me today.’”

By using the ID in the wallet, Hill returned it and the money to the owner, J. Pat Wigginton. And what did she get as a reward? A measly $20.

After some reflection, Wigginton mailed Hill a $200 gift card so she could purchase Adalee’s school supplies. Now that’s more like it. But I wonder whether Wigginton did so out of the goodness of his heart or whether he sent the gift card only because he was getting a lot of flack over the original $20 reward?