Exploit anothers mistake?

[snakekilla88]

Today I ordered Subway, and my sandwich after being delivered to my Dorm cost $11.60 and I gave her a $20 and asked for 5 back (gave her a nice tip!). The delivery person gave me a folded $5 bill out of her fannypack. I noticed inside the folded $5 was a $20 bill and I was thinking sweet! I am not going to say anything and see if she will notice. I thought she might but she didn’t and I quickly fisted the bill to cover it up.

When I was walking away something weird came over me, and I was just thinking wow this is not acceptable behavior and reflects bad on my personal charecter. I felt like this was a test of who I am when no one was watching. I had a brief flashback of the movie “FamilyMan” where cashier purposely gives the customer the wrong change as a test. I also thought about my parents who I have seen instantly hand the money back on similiar occasions.

So like 20secs have passed since transaction. I then RUN back to the delivery driver who was in their car and backing out and was like you actually gave me too much and then I returned the bill.

As a poker player your first instict should be to want to keep it, no? Then you start realizing the implications behind your decision and have second thoughts. At same time, what makes this much different from online poker? Just because someone is behind a monitor I do not feel guilty for exploiting there mistake(s)?...

A lot of people just take the money there while a lot of people instantly give it back. My question is…
1. Do you think most americans take the money and run or give it back?
2. Which one are you?