Tipton workers just did the right thing

Even those with jaded views of the world and who always think the worst of people had to have been inspired by the story of Mary Sample and Roberta Brown.

Those are the two Tipton Linen & Uniform Service employees who, in two recent instances, found $2,000 and $1,500 respectively, and turned it in.

The money had been lost in linen that the women sort. Through the companies tracking system, it was determined that $2,000 came from a Captain D's in St. Louis. The $1,500 that was tucked inside a torn envelope belonged to a prominent St. Louis developer who had just collected rent and left the envelope on a restaurant table.

Owner Tom Tipton gave the women both $100 each. The St. Louis developer sent Brown $500.

They say that true character can be determined by what you do when no one is looking. No one was looking, and these two women did the right thing.

They both got rewarded. But we suspect that, for women like them, the reward was the satisfaction that came from doing the right thing.