Posted on 07/26/2014 9:28:33 PM PDT by Kevin in California
Went to the local liquor store to buy me a bottle of rum and as I stepped out of my truck and onto the sidewalk, there it was staring me in the face. It was so easy to reach down and pick it up.
Is it yours?
If so, please tell me the denomination of the bill and where you think you lost it. If you're correct, I'll mail it off to you....I swear:-)
I swear this is a the truth . . . I just cashed my check at the California bank you were walking by and they gave me my newly-minted trillion dollar bill. I was just on my way to pay down the national debt - then somehow I dropped it. The winds of fortune apparently deposited the bill at your feet.
Thank you so much for finding it, but it will probably be too expensive to mail such a large bill what with package and handling and all . . . so just send me the tax on it which should be around $21.35 - but you can round It off to $20.
Thank you bery, bery much.
When I was a kid, w found a broken roll of silver dollars in a pile of leaves in the street.
I found a wallet in the middle of the street. No money but a name and a phone number. I called the woman and told her I had found her wallet. When she came to pick it up she looked inside and said a $100 bill was missing. I didn’t take her money, in fact I suspect she had never seen a $100 bill in her whole life!
A few years ago we found a wallet in the middle of a country road in Oklahoma, we took it to the police dept. in Ardmore. The policeman grilled me like he thought I had stolen it.
I think I will leave the next wallet I find in the street! I don’t like to be accused of doing things I would never do, like steal a wallet!
Back then it was a whole lot of money, especially for a kid to find wasn’t it.
Back when we found it blowing all over the place, must have been 1961 maybe 62, there were people doing oilfield work bringing home maybe $200/month and that would be for 60 or more hours work/week.
The $25-$30 we found was a lot of money.
There was 3 or 4 of us that found it. I found $12 because I kept going out day after day looking for more.
I/we would pick it all up one day then maybe a few days or a week later just like magic more money would appear and be blowing all over the place.
Being kids we have visions of bank robbers coming to get us because we had their money.
Back in those days, that was a decent amount of money to find.
Are you from Nigeria?
An Obama $3 bill.
$150 isn’t too shabby even now to just be picking up.
Most I ever found at one time was a $20 in field across from a grocery store. It was faded so it had been there a good while.
I dropped my wallet once near a school and a nice lady who worked there found it kept it for me. Also, I was on vacation in Ireland and lost a wallet somewhere, probably carelessly left it in a cab. Not a huge deal, about $80 and no important papers.
It’s mine, but I can’t tell you the denomination because that would violate my privacy. You just have to take my word for it that it’s mine. (smile)
There, isn’t that the typical leftist position?!
If there is an ID in it, send it to the address. If not, keep it and all that is in it.
I don't recall what the parents did with them, but they sure as hell didn't go to the elementary skoo cafeteria.
A few years ago, I found a young guy’s wallet with ID and very little of value; I just wrapped it up, addressed it -with a notation of ‘your wallet’- and dropped it in a mailbox, without postage...........pretty sure he’d pick up the ‘postage due’.
Good idea!
I’m always amused by how many people here come up with the same ideas and similar comments. I like knowing I’m not alone.
depending on how old you are, that would be VERY cool, or just cool...
It was mid-70’s. Falls under very cool.
Ok, Mr Nigerian Prince
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