Have you ever found random money?

I think it was worth about £3 or $5.

WHat I want to find is gold left by Spanish bandits out in the east bay hills. I know it's out there, I just need the technology.

it was promptly spent on indian food and overpriced beer.

My friend, afterwards, says no, he's sure he didn't drop it.

And that's the story of how I recently acquired $20 of random money. If it was yours, don't expect it back, I've already spent it.

In all, the cash machine fed us 4 £20 notes. We bought much beer and many smokes and were the heroes of the party. I still have no idea why that money was hanging out there in the breeze.

Also, I found $25 in change + cash in the Raging Rivers wave pool when I was a young'n.

when I was a kid I opened a copy of Bridge Across Forever by Richard Bach at the checkoutstand of Chet's Market in Pueblo Colorado and found $40 folded up inside. I took it. That was the best day of the summer!

Years later my dog had dhiarrea in the middle of the night so I was outside of my Baltimore rowhouse walking him when I saw what I thought was one of those church tracts that is supposed to resemble a folded 10 dollar bill. I almost passed it by but I was waiting for him to do his business and I was bored so I thought I'd pick it up and read it to pass the time. As luck would have it, it weren't no church tract -- it was a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL. My elation turned to fear as I quickly calculated that I had lived in Baltimore for 7 years without ever having been burgled or mugged and what were the chances that my luck at avoiding that fate could hold out for even a minute longer?! I was SO SURE that I was going to be mugged at any minute. I shoved the money in my sock(!) and started a quite but steady mantra of "go poop", "go poop", "go poop" over and over to offer my dog some sort of encouragement to hurry up and GO POOP. Anyway, he finally did, and we rushed back inside and that money was gone before the next weekend.

I also found about 70 bucks on the street in some little cape cod village one summer when I was visiting for a wedding. My girlfriend and I found a receipt to a nearby clothing store along with the money and realized that the person had just made a purchase in the past hour. We thought about taking the money to the store in case the person returned for it but we promptly shelved that idea when we realized that the person had just spent about 600 dollars on clothes. Easily rationalizing that they probably would never even notice that it was missing, we instead used it to treat ourselves to a delicious and pricey meal for two in Provincetown. What a great day that was...

today, however many years later, that little blonde girl ... is my wife!

I call bullshit!
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1991 (or so): $20 bill blowing around a parking lot in Santa Ana

1998: Two $50 bills lying on the ground in an Irvine self-serve car wash.

DAMN YOU CATHOLIC SCHOOL.

Me: "You left £20 in the cash machine, here you go" *smile*
Him: "oh, ok" *no expression*
Me: "you're welcome"
Him: *confused frown*
Me: Well fuck you, I'll just keep it then, you ungrateful bastard

(note: I might not have said that last bit out loud)

I once found a tenner outside a movie theater, but the best was when I found A BAG OF WEED on the way to the grocery.

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=5047478

then a few weeks later i posted this i found 60$ and a child's bus pass on the ground yesterday. i split it between myself and the two girls i was with. one of them is giving us guilt trips about feeling bad that we "stole the money".

fuck it. give me the money, i want more cds!

-- JaXoN (jaso...), November 15th, 2004.

and then two weeks after that i found a twenty at a bar on the ground and as i walked out a bum asked me for money so i gave him a 5 dollar bill

finally last week i found a buck on the ground and my friend looked sad because he didn't find it so i gave it to him.

Oh, I smoked it. I was wary of picking it up, though, because it was smack in the middle of the sidewalk. But then I did the math and realized that it was 8 in the morning, and I was standing in front of a frat house, and figured it was not a trick.

Sunday morning, no less. Somebody just dropped their party, that's all.

Other than that, I'm not good at finding random money. Unless you count the £20 that was sticking out of a Bloomsbury cash machine with not another person in sight.

I am generally quite an honourable lady though - once the town hall cashier failed to charge us for our parking permits and I only realised as we left the building. I made M. turn back and pay and we had an enormous row. He maintained that they WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN which is a fair assumption, but on the other hand you don't want to get on the wrong side of the city council do you.

Similarly, we were charged £12 in Boots for something that cost £40. Even I kept quiet about that one.

(of course, no doubt if someone *had* he wouldn't have put it on his show anyway)

I'm always finding money and drgz and stuff. Esp. at festivals - every time I go to a festival, I'm almost guarenteed to find some substance of other winking at me from the ground.

After being fooled with the money on a string trick once, the proper procedure is to first kick the wallet and then step on it. Then take it.

At my wife's high school reunion, I found $5 sitting on a table, wadded up. I think some drunk loser thought it was his drink napkin.

At the grocery store, at an automated checkout lane, I spotted $20 in the change(bill) return tray. So that's the line I used when I checked out.

At a Yo La Tengo concert, I found a $100 on the floor. I felt kinda bad that someone had lost it, but had no intention of announcing that "I just found $100 - did anyone lose it?"

Also, fuck anyone who can't keep track of his money.

Got to make your own entertainment (when you don't have a telly), don't you?

I found a penny this morning.