I Found a Pair of AirPods and Learned How Weak I Was

I took someone’s AirPods.

It was about a month ago. I went with my lady and a couple of folks to celebrate a birthday (not mine) at a restaurant. As I exited the car I looked down and saw the AirPods in the case on the floor of the parking lot. I picked them up. My first thought was that someone had dropped them while exiting their car parked next to us. I noticed the car was a rental.

I announced to the group that I’d found them and that I was planning to turn them into the restaurant to let them deal with it. Maybe the owner of the AirPods at some point would ask the restaurant if they’d found them or if someone, a good Samaritan like me, had turned them in.

But then someone in our group said that I should keep them. I’d found the AirPods outside, not inside the restaurant, they said. We have no idea what the person who we turned them into would do with them. We shouldn’t assume that they belonged to the person parked next to us. Maybe they were there before they even arrived.

I put the AirPods in my pocket. I would think about what to do.

When we checked into the restaurant I looked over the hostess to see if she seemed trustworthy. Would she keep them? They are AirPods. They’re pretty expensive.