It was chilly this morning - in the 40s - as we were headed out to breakfast, so I pulled out my red fleece jacket. It’s a bit warmer than my green fleece which I’ve been wearing lately. When I reached into the pockets, I found a grocery receipt from April - probably the last time I wore the jacket - and a dollar bill. WOOHOO!
What have you found in your pocketses when you pulled out your cold weather outerwear? Or inner wear for that matter. Share your fortunes! The most interesting item will win, um, well… not my dollar, that’s for sure. But you can have Official StraightDope Bragging Rights[sup]TM[/sup] , and those don’t go to just anyone. Really, it’s true! Ask any mod!!
Would I lie? Would this face lie?? <insert portrait with sad puppydog eyes>
OK, tell all. What did you find in your last season’s pockets?
I found a small black marble in my leather jacket yesterday. Except… I wore it the day before. I know I didn’t pick up any marbles… where di… oh never mind. I’m probably losing my mind. :rolleyes: I also found my husband’s glasses he’s been hunting for two weeks in His jacket pocket that he claims he hasn’t worn since last spring (then how, pray tell, did it get to be slung over a chair in the bedroom) :dubious:
I found a twenny once. I was driving along the road and it flew past my windscreen. ‘That’s a twenty!’ I said to myself. I hung a u-ee and picked the note up from the street. Yup, it was a twenty, all right.
To maintain the Cosmic Balance, I lost a twenty while riding my motorcycle a couple of years later.
My biggest source of income when I was a teenager was finding bills stuffed in my mother’s winter jackets. We’re talking jackets she hadn’t worn in years. I borrowed one, and was pleased to find a $20 bill in a pocket. From then on, if I found myself short of cash, I’d go rooting around in the back of her closet and see what I could score. I usually did okay.
I told her this and she found it amusing. What she found more amusing, though, was moving my clothes out of the dryer and finding money that she happily claimed as her own. I guess the Karma bunny came around after all.
I found two dollars in the dryer day before yesterday. I’m 99.9% sure they came out of my own jeans, so those probably don’t really count.
However, yesterday at the ballpark, I found a $10 bill on the ground. I asked everyone around if they’d lost it, and they all said nope, so I was $10 richer when I left the football park! My kid’s team lost, so I think I found that money for a reason…
I once found a ten-spot in the touristy graveyard at Boot Hill. I was 11 and we were taking the standard comedy tourist pictures of the family members with their heads in nooses and I spotted a green blur out of the corner of my eye. After the photo I said very excitedly as I went over to it “I found a dollar!” only it turned out to be $10. Could not have been more excited. On the way back to the RV I was guilted by my mother into splitting it with my brother. I’m still bitter.
When I was something like 5 or 6, I found a quarter in our back yard while helping my mom work in the garden. Bear in mind this would be 1959 or 1960, so that was a nice chunk of change. Mom made me share it with my sister and brother. But a few years later when my sister found a WHOLE DOLLAR, she got to keep it for herself.
Let’s see… I just did this yesterday. I had a bandaid, a condom, a pencil, and some pamphlets about HIV. All of them but the pencil were scored at the same time, when I went down to the student health center for an HIV test.
Once, when I was cleaning out my purse, I found about $80 that I’d stashed at the bottom one bill at a time. The timing was perfect, since it was about two days before payday.
I’m notorious for leaving stuff in jacket pockets so I’ve found the random bill, keys, tv remote, phone, tools, ad infinitum.
What I didn’t find was my 3rd cellphone in less than a year. I lost or destroyed a total of 4 cellphones last year. I was sure that the 3rd one would be discovered in a jacket pocket but it was never to be seen again.
Forgot to mention that my best find was just over 40 very-well-washed bucks in a pair of my jeans. It came at a time when that 40 bucks was sorely needed, so I was definitely pleased. (I tend to find bills in that stupid useless little pocket because I accidentally stick them there instead of in the larger pocket where I expect to find them.)
I dont know if this counts but when I was in College one Christmas I found a fifty in the parking lot of my bank. I felt so guilty that I used it to buy Christmas presents, I couldnt spend it on myself.
Very handy being a poor student at the time.
I know it doesnt make sense because I would have spent that much on gifts anyways, but it seemed better somehow.
I bought a pair of jeans at a garage sale a few months ago. I went through the pockets before washing them and found a twenty. Not bad for a pair of jeans that cost me 75¢. A few years ago at a county fair my wife found a bill on the ground. She stuffed it in her pocket and we went around a corner to see what it was. 1000 pesos from Costa Rica, worth about $2 at the time. She still has it.
Once I was reading a book I had put down ages ago and came upon a $20 I had put in there as a bookmark and forgot about. That was pretty nice.
Not as nice as the crisp, clean $50 I found on the grocery store floor right next to some tourists who were counting their nice crisp, clean money. I picked it up and offered it to them. They just looked at me like I was crazy. “Fifty?” I said. No response. “Go-ju dorru?” I offered in their tongue, no response. Finally the cashier offered “I guess it’s yours.” so I split.
Usually the only things I find in jacket pockets are trash. I just don’t wear one often enough for it to collect anything interesting. Although…I have found ticket stubs in my suit coat pocket from plays I saw years before. Guess there hadn’t been any weddings or funerals in the intervening years!
Everytime I look at this thread title the “Found a peanut” song rumbles through my head.
Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut, just now… Just n…
