# Wherein the Piper Cub sets out a few moral principles

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**Created:** [November 14, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-the-piper-cub-sets-out-a-few-moral-principles/925551 "2020-11-14T03:30:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-the-piper-cub-sets-out-a-few-moral-principles/925551/21 "2020-11-21T23:27:52Z")

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This is NOT a criticism, but I’d have told him to keep the five.

About ten or fifteen years ago, shortly after the new plastic bills were issued in Canada, I took a taxi from the train station to my home. The fare was, say $30 so I gave him what I thought was $40 and told him to keep the change. He had  
been very helpful with my luggage, taking it from the street to my front door. About three weeks later, the doorbell rang and there was the taxi driver. He explained that two of the bills had stuck together and I had actually given him $60. I assume he had spent three weeks wrestling with his conscience. I was dumbstruck, but no so much that I didn’t tell to please keep it.

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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wherein-the-piper-cub-sets-out-a-few-moral-principles/925551/22 "2020-11-22T09:39:18Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> sometimes they put people in movies who do bad things to show that they’re the bad guys, and will get their comeuppance at the end. Otherwise h’es going to run into a lot of movies he can’t finish.

Yeah, **PiperCub** walked out of a great movie! And turned it off so nobody else could watch, either! How rude!

(I kid, I kid. 😉 Congrats on raising a non-asshole, it apparently ain’t easy, given how many assholes are running around out there.)

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