What Would YOU Do?

I got into work this morning, to find the usual bunch of interesting things on my desks - notes telling me that people aren't using the computer rooms at certain times (emails? Anyone?), broken headphones etc. This morning, however, there was a new item. Not an unusual one, by any means. A digital camera, with a post-it note stuck on with this message.

"Please please can you empty this camera when you get a minute - no rush. Thank you v. much."

So, on receipt of a note like that, what would be your first thought?

Mine was "It's not bloody rocket science!" as I navigated through the menus to the Format option. And then, a nano-second after I'd pressed the Yes button, "Oh, I wonder if they meant that I should save the pictures somewhere else?"

So I went off to try and find the owner of the camera, and ascertain exactly what it was they had expected of me. Please note that the post-it wasn't even signed, so I had trouble working out who was the legitimate owner of the camera. Sadly, on locating the owner, she confirmed to me that she had, very much, wanted me to transfer the pictures (probably the last pictures taken of her grandmother, enjoying her 100th birthday celebrations with the whole family, who subsequently died last week, or something) to somewhere safe, thus preserving them forever.

Colour me feeling really guilty right now. :-(