This woman and her friend recently celebrated the long holiday weekend by taking a trip to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.
They live in Georgia, so the destination was only a five-hour drive away. Plus, they stayed at a really lovely resort right on the beach and got to meet tons of people from all over the country on their trip.
But, during their stay on the resort’s fifth floor, she noticed something fishy.
“Walking from the elevator to our room, I noticed a wagon with beach toys, boogie boards, and a couple of chairs sitting conspicuously in the hall along the way to our room,” she recalled.
The wagon was not sitting in front of a specific room, either. It was just kind of floating in the hallway between rooms.
Still, she did not think too much about it the first time she saw the wagon and continued on to her room.
Nonetheless, she realized over the next couple of days that the wagon remained entirely untouched for over forty-eight hours. It was there during all times of the day, and the items inside also looked practically brand new.
“So, I began to wonder after several days if it had been abandoned there by past guests who perhaps had to fly home and could not carry these items along with them,” she said.
And eventually, after three days of the items just sitting there, she decided to take her pick. She figured that since no one was removing the wagon from the hall and no other guests were “treating the hallway like a personal closet,” she could help herself to an item or two.
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She ended up just taking the beach chairs since she was not traveling with any children who could use the toys and boogie boards.
And for a split second, she considered leaving a note behind detailing her beach chair grab. But, she did not and later came to regret that massive mistake.
On the last day of her trip, she and her friend packed up their belongings and called a bellhop to help them bring their luggage and stacked up beach chairs to the car.
Then, after she ran down to retrieve the car to the parking lot, she returned to find a furious man standing beside her stuff.
He apparently began aggressively pointing his finger before saying, “Your friend said you found these chairs? Tell the truth, don’t lie.”
She was taken aback and told the man that she did “find them,” which only made him angrier.
“You LIAR! These chairs were in front of my room, and you STOLE them from me!” he screamed.
She immediately began apologizing and trying to explain that she thought all of the items had been abandoned.
Nonetheless, he refused to hear her out and claimed she was lucky he did not press charges.
At that point, she was utterly mortified and ended up just tipping the bellhop before getting into her car.
And as she drove away, she nearly broke down into tears.
Still, she is really torn about the entire situation. She does feel genuinely awful for taking the man’s belongings, but she also has no idea why anyone would leave their stuff in an unattended common area of the hotel for so long.
So now, she is not sure if she had good reason to take the beach chairs or if doing so was completely disrespectful.
Would you take items left in a hotel hallway if they had been there for three days? Do you think the man’s reaction was warranted or too much?
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