Originally Posted by jonwvara

I went for a pleasant long ride (long for me, I mean) last week, in the course of which I found a serviceable pair of diagonal cutters and a pair of needle-nose Vise Grips. I stopped for both--once on a flat and once during a long downhill--and put them in my pocket and brought them home. Not even sure why, because I already have a pair of needle-nose Vise Grips and a better pair of ****s. It occurred to me after I got home that maybe the proper thing to do is to leave lost tools where they are for someone else to find--maybe someone who needs them more than I do.

Mohandas Gandhi supposedly once lost a sandal between the train and the platform while boarding, and quickly removed his other sandal as well and threw it back next to the first one. When asked why, he said "now the person who finds it will have a pair of sandals he can use." A nice story that might even be true. I wonder what he did when he saw a wrench lying in the road while riding? And yes, he did ride a bike, as I learned just now. Here's a short description of the restoration of his old bike:

https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/bicycle34194-how-i-restored-mahatma-gandhi-s-bicycle-help-local-repairmen-ingenuity.html