Will any girl marry our greatest cabbie?

Question

NYC cabbie returns bag of diamond rings
NEW YORK - Never mind diamonds- a New York cabbie was a Texas girl's best friend. The driver returned 31 diamond rings he found in his cab after dropping off the passenger, who had left him with a 30-cent tip on a $10.70 fare."All my life, I tried to be honest," said Osman Chowdhury, a native of Bangladesh. "Today is no different."

But the 41-year-old cabbie from Queens did have a message: "I'm proud of what I did so that people know New York taxi drivers are honest."

What he did started on Monday evening, when he picked up the woman at a hotel in midtown Manhattan and drove her to an apartment building several blocks away. She gave him $20 to pay the fare and asked for $9 back.

Hours later, at about 10 p.m., three other passengers with luggage discovered the woman's suitcase when Chowdhury popped the trunk open for them.

Chowdhury first drove to the building where he had dropped off the woman. But he had no idea in which of the many apartments she might be and didn't want to cause a disruption by knocking on doors.

He took the suitcase to the Manhattan headquarters of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a drivers' advocacy group to which he belongs. He and the alliance president looked inside and found two display cases with 31 diamond rings inside.

"I saw flashing, and I said, 'Oh my God! Diamonds!'" Chowdhury recalled. "I was shocked. I was trembling."

They also found a small luggage tag with a Texas telephone number they called — the home of the woman's mother in Dallas. Meanwhile, she called the number, too.

The woman, who said she was a jeweler, got back the gems on Monday when she arrived at the alliance office around midnight — incredulous at her luck. She offered Chowdhury a reward — a check for $100.

"I cannot take a penny for being honest," he said, but he reluctantly accepted the money to cover the fares he lost while trying to track her down.

He said it never occurred to him to keep the diamonds.

"I'm not going to take someone else's money or property to make me rich. I don't want it that way," said the soft-spoken cabbie, who was a contractor in Bangladesh until he came to the United States 15 years ago.

He does not own a cab but rents one.

"I enjoy my life. I'm satisfied," said Chowdhury, who is single.

He didn't even mind the meager tip.

"I think some people might be broke," he said. "Or they're distracted."

The woman from Dallas asked that her name not be made public.

Answer 1

Wow! We salute Mr. Osman Chowdhury for his honesty. In fact, in Bangladesh people in general are content with whatever they have. This is truer for the middle-class and lower middle class people.



However, the teaching of our religion also plays a major role in shaping such character traits. We are taught not to touch the lost-and-found items, not even keep it away just so that the person who lost it would come and check probable places where he was and chances of finding the lost object would diminish if it is dislocated.



The higher class politicians and corrupt public servants mostly in Tax & VAT, Utility services people (Gas, Water, Electricity and telephone) and Police personnel tarnished our image as nothing works in these dep't without greasing the palms.



The present Neutral Caretaker Government headed by Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed with his 10 Advisors are cleaning the corruption rackets from our country and one day we may rise from the ashes of being one of the most corrupt countries in the world.



The Transparency International of Berlin has partly-unjustly painted our country for 4 successive years based on corruption perception index which is based on news as it appears in media.



I think 41-year-old Mr. Osman Chowdhury was too honest not to have got into matrimonial trap and may decide to go solo (lol). In any case, one can always get married and settle in a family life and we hope that he gets one soon.

Answer 2

No, please don't invite troubles for you. This is only an infatuation. Your parents are right. In current atmosphere of high communal frenzy, don't fall in the trap permanently. You don't have senses, actually. Practical life must be planned a foolproof. You're NOT a good planner to anticipate obvious disasters well in advance to take up appropriate steps to prevent the same before arrival. Why to damage your life first & searching solutions desperately later ? Is that a wise step ? Be tactful which you're NOT.

Answer 3

Wow, there are still good people in this world.