Decisions Decisions

This week a shop owner at a convenience store in Massachusetts was faced with a moral dilema.  A woman who had previously bought a lottery ticket checked the numbers but didn’t realize it was a winner so she gave it back to the cashier to dispose of it.  For some reason it sat on the counter for 10 days until the shop owner noticed the buyer hadn’t scratched the number on the ticket so he scratched it and discovered a Million dollar winning ticket.  This is where the moral compass kicks in.  He knows the woman comes into the store on a regular basis.  He also knows she has no way of ever knowing it was a winning ticket.  Does he give it back to her or keep it?  The next time the woman came in the store he gave it back to her and indicated her winnings at which point she freaked out, understandably, and cried like a baby.  Good on the shop owner for his honesty.  I’m not sure everyone would have made the same decision.