So uhm lets say you're taking public transport...

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...or are waiting in a doctors waiting room for example...

...and you have a bag with you which you forgot to take with you when you leave/step off...

Would you think people would call you back and bring the bag to you or would you think they would not care or pretend that they didn't see it?

Have you actually personally witnessed examples of the latter to yourself or to others?

Would you think your social status to those people will have something to do with the fact that they'll do the effort for calling you back or just pretend nothing happened?

As far as I've seen so far on the busses here, people call you back for your forgotten stuff all the time, I guess I'm safe here lol (not that I ever forget my own stuff in public places but wth).

What are your experiences what concerns this?

It depends on what sort of people are in the room or on the bus at the time. I have often had somebody telling me if I have got up and forgotten a bag. But it also depends on who saw too.

If I think real hard, I can remember lots of times where somebody has kindly told me that I have left something behind, or have dropped something. I've even had a stranger in the bus station say, ''stand still, there's a ladybird in your hair, I will get it out for you'', and he did. He was an older man so it wasn't some immature oik pulling a silly prank. I still felt embarrassed though because I found everybody around were staring at me and were still staring at me after he had got the ladybird out of my hair.

But anyway, so yes I have had generosity from strangers, so I shouldn't complain. But my low self-esteem still gets the better of me. Like once when my cousin got bit on the hand by a dog, a woman suddenly rushed out of the house he happened to be near and called an ambulance, and when I heard that, I started to go all depressed and thought ''I bet nobody would do that for me''.

I have had people tell me I dropped something or forgot something. Even a store employee ran out of the store after us with my son's sippy cup in her hand and she handed it to my mother. I have also told other people they dropped something or forgot something. If I am not sure if something was theirs, I just ask "Is this yours?"