when honest people steal

I've been meaning to write a lot of stuff for a long time.  For now, here's a story.

Stephanie and I went running in our apartment complex's rec-room one evening (as we often do), and even though I didn't lock our front door for the 30 minute excursion, I still brought my keys with me.  So we ran, I placed my keys in the cup-holder on the treadmill.  (Really?  a cup-holder on a treadmill?  let's call it a water-bottle-holder).  Then after running I walked around a bit, stretched, got a drink from the drinking fountain.  Then we left, and I left my keys behind. 

The following morning was quite disastrous.  Stephanie usually keeps her keys in the car, to help her not forget to take them to school, and that's where they were in the morning, inside the locked car.  My keys of course were nowhere to be found I went back to the rec-room, but found the treadmill water-bottle-holder empty.  Someone might have taken them and given them to the office?  Sadly the office was closed that early in the morning.  A good while later and not-the-best-locksmith-in-the-world had my car door open and we're off to work for the day.

That afternoon though I dropped by the office and sure enough there were my keys in one of the desk drawers.  "Some honest resident dropped these by" says the office secretary.  And that is how honest people steal.  Had they just left them there where I'd left them, there probably wasn't anyone who would have taken them, and I could have found my keys that morning and been happy.  Of course an honest person turns things into the lost & found....