# I just found $1400! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633 "2009-10-29T18:07:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Translucent\_Daydream](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/translucent_daydream/32/16170_2.png) [@Translucent\_Daydream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Translucent_Daydream)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/21 "2009-10-29T21:49:00Z")
Awesome. Can you help a brother out? ---
**Author:** ![JFLuvly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@JFLuvly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFLuvly)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/22 "2009-10-29T22:58:31Z")
Well this sucks. Up until I read this I was quite happy about finding $15.00 in my shirt pocket about an hour ago. Hmmmmppppffff, Thanks man. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/23 "2009-10-30T00:10:22Z")
You may have found 1400 _dollars_, but I just found 1400 _tacos_. What’s more, I _did_ find them on the side of the road. In a ditch, in fact. I don’t know what they were doing there, but, man, when whoever puts them there comes back, he sure will be disappointed when he finds out all his ditch tacos are gone. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/24 "2009-10-30T01:06:28Z")
I would respectfully submit that if you can lose, then find, $1400, you probably have too much money and should seriously consider Paypalling some of it over here. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/25 "2009-10-30T01:53:43Z")
Never found _that_ much, congratulations! (Or something. What’s appropriate in this situation?) But once, after I’d gone back to work after the C-section birth of my second child, I was giving the kitchen a thorough cleaning, and found one of my disability checks (that’s how my C-section leave was paid; through disability) under the microwave! It was not a _lot_ of money, about $200.00, if memory serves. But nice to find. I thought of it as getting paid 200 bucks to clean the kitchen!🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/26 "2009-10-30T07:26:47Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > You may have found 1400 _dollars_, but I just found 1400 _tacos_. What’s more, I _did_ find them on the side of the road. In a ditch, in fact. I don’t know what they were doing there, but, man, when whoever puts them there comes back, he sure will be disappointed when he finds out all his ditch tacos are gone. You just made me laugh myself into a headache. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/27 "2009-10-30T07:37:13Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Never found _that_ much, congratulations! (Or something. What’s appropriate in this situation?) > But once, after I’d gone back to work after the C-section birth of my second child, I was giving the kitchen a thorough cleaning, and found one of my disability checks (that’s how my C-section leave was paid; through disability) under the microwave! It was not a _lot_ of money, about $200.00, if memory serves. But nice to find. > > I thought of it as getting paid 200 bucks to clean the kitchen!🆒 Wow, I just misread that badly enough to imagine a doctor pulling out a sack of $200 along with a baby during a C-section delivery… I’m gonna go sleep now. Have fun with the money, OP. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/28 "2009-10-30T10:11:51Z")
Congratulations!! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/29 "2009-10-30T13:58:03Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > You may have found 1400 _dollars_, but I just found 1400 _tacos_. What’s more, I _did_ find them on the side of the road. In a ditch, in fact. I don’t know what they were doing there, but, man, when whoever puts them there comes back, he sure will be disappointed when he finds out all his ditch tacos are gone. I’m sure this is some sort of joke, but I don’t understand it. Probably some American expression unfamiliar to us Brits. Explain, please. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/30 "2009-10-30T14:08:40Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I’m sure this is some sort of joke, but I don’t understand it. Probably some American expression unfamiliar to us Brits. Explain, please. Nothing to explain, it’s just random silliness. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/31 "2009-10-30T14:19:22Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > You may have found 1400 _dollars_, but I just found 1400 _tacos_. What’s more, I _did_ find them on the side of the road. In a ditch, in fact. I don’t know what they were doing there, but, man, when whoever puts them there comes back, he sure will be disappointed when he finds out all his ditch tacos are gone. Ditch tacos? Band name? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/32 "2009-10-30T14:44:54Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > ditch tacos I hear they’re opening for [Napkin Sandwiches](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11392188). ---
**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/33 "2009-10-30T14:54:42Z")
Are you experiencing any other strange memories coming back to you? Like you know how to snap a person’s neck in one move, but don’t understand why? Passports in that bag with your picture but different names? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/34 "2009-10-30T15:50:56Z")
> [@arseNal](#): > > Are you experiencing any other strange memories coming back to you? Like you know how to snap a person’s neck in one move, but don’t understand why? Passports in that bag with your picture but different names? OMG!11!!! The OP _thinks_ he’s a walrus, but he’s really Jason Bourne! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/35 "2009-10-30T18:22:40Z")
> [@JFLuvly](#): > > Well this sucks. Up until I read this I was quite happy about finding $15.00 in my shirt pocket about an hour ago. > > Hmmmmppppffff, Thanks man. My first thought was $1400? Chump change compared to the $170K that other guy won. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/36 "2009-10-30T19:15:02Z")
> [@JFLuvly](#): > > Well this sucks. Up until I read this I was quite happy about finding $15.00 in my shirt pocket about an hour ago. > > Hmmmmppppffff, Thanks man. FWIW, when the weather starts seriously warming up in the spring, I will often tuck a $10 or a $20 in a jacket or coat pocket to pleasantly surprise myself with in the fall! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/37 "2009-10-30T19:36:44Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > FWIW, when the weather starts seriously warming up in the spring, I will often tuck a $10 or a $20 in a jacket or coat pocket to pleasantly surprise myself with in the fall! 🙂 Yeah, but if I did something like that on purpose, I’d remember that I did it and it wouldn’t be as fun. Still nice, but not found money nice. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/38 "2009-10-30T19:56:26Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > Yeah, but if I did something like that on purpose, I’d remember that I did it and it wouldn’t be as fun. Still nice, but not found money nice. Obviously, your long-term memory is better than mine! 😃 Actually, I start getting cold when the temp drops below, oh, 70 degrees. So I have a _bunch_ of sweaters, hoodies, coats, jackets, etc. (In fact, my latest thrift-store score is a London Fog topcoat with zip-out winter lining, for _four bucks_! And just a size too big, so I can bundle a sweat shirt or something under it. . .) So I never know, in the winter, what I’m going to find in the pockets, and how much. It’s not _exactly_ like ‘found money’, but it’s still like pennies from heaven, and it makes my day a little brighter. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633/39 "2009-10-30T21:12:59Z")
> [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > You just made me laugh myself into a headache. Me too. “Ditch tacos” cracked me the hell up for some reason. Earlier this year I randomly received about $800 from my previous employer. It was some sort of employee compensation thingy that was never paid out becuase it was held up in some kind of legal dispute. I’d completely forgotten about it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-found-1400/515633.md?page=1)