I was going to post a thread about what I should do with the trip to Europe I will be taking on behalf of the American taxpayers. But I don't want GGT to explode, so I will post a hypothetical dilemma involving a different issue of things falling into your lap.
Imagine you are at the gym. You get onto one of the available cardio machines and there is a Kindle just sitting there on the control panel. You look around to see if someone nearby is actually using the machine and stepped away. An attractive person on the adjacent machine says someone just left it there maybe 20 minutes ago and walked away with their towel and iPhone.
So you work out for half an hour on the machine and no one comes to get the Kindle. Given some particular knowledge of the gym staff, you know there is a 90% chance turning-in the device will lead to that staff member taking it home when the shift changes in an hour and a half.
When you turn on the Kindle, you look for any contact info of the owner. There is none, but the device is named "Mindy's 5th Kindle!"
Do you:
A) Pursue the 10% chance the staff member won't steal the device and turn it in.
B) Take the Kindle home, even though you never really wanted/needed one. Maybe it'll be useful on some taxpayer-funded trip to Europe.