I just stopped at a chinese restaurant to pick up some food for dinner and I walk in and there, just sitting on the floor is a crisp, folding $100 bill.
Of course I scooped it up.
What’s the most amount of money you’ve found?. That $100 is it for me.
That I got to keep? $10 (except my dad made me split it with my brother; we were 13 and 11 and yes I’m still bitter).
That I had to give back? Several hundred dollars found in a laundromat. The guy came back for it and his ID was with it so I kinda had to.
$90.00 when I was totally broke, and had just spent my very last $60.00 on groceries at the store, which left me penniless. I walked out and lo and behold, on the ground, 90 bucks.
There is a god, or karma, or something. 
The most I have ever found was about $350. I wait tables and at my previous job, had some ladies in for lunch. They paid and one of the ladies left her bank envelope on the table. By the time I had cleared the table and found it the ladies were long gone. I turned it into the manager and 3 days later the lady shows up. Told the manager she was probably just blowing in the wind, but did anyone turn in an envelope with money a few days earlier. She was so happy and crying. I wasn’t there but she gave my manager $20 and her husbands christian gospel cd to give to me. I looked him up online and e-mailed them as they were out of state. His wife was just lovely in her e-mail back to me. I found out she didn’t notice it missing until 2 days later and then it took her awhile to retrace her steps. That’s what took her so long to come back.
I don’t know how much my record is., I suspect it was several hundred pounds (British). I was strolling down the road when I saw a businessman in a very expesive suit leave the bank and head for his BMW. I saw the roll of bills fall. I gave them back to him. He didn’t say thank you. Hopefully karma will pay me (and him) back one day.
Most I’ve ever kept? Sixty pounds (~$100). About 100 yards from where incident 1 took place.
When I was about 8 years old, my friend and I found a purse in a parking lot, which contained $1000 in cash. The woman’s wallet was also in the purse, so we phoned her up. For some reason, we had the idea that the correct procedure was to ask her to PROVE she was the purse owner, so we asked her questions like “Can you describe the purse, ma’am?” She got a kick out of this and played along. My dad drove us over to her home to return the purse, and she gave us each $20. At age 8, $20 seemed nearly as much as $1000, so we were thrilled.
I found an envelope with over $3500 and a deposit slip inside. I was unemployed at the time and was be hounded about back child support. I returned it to an older couple, he forgot the envelope on the roof of his car. The money was from an estate sale they had the previous weekend, their son had been killed on an auto accident. They gave me $200 and hired me to do some yard work for them.
40 bucks in a wallet with no identification, but with a pot leaf tucked into the picture sleave.
I fined the owner 40 bucks for possession.
I’ve never found more than $10 myself, but a friend who cleaned hotel rooms found several hundred dollars USD sitting on a bed in the room of a couple who’d checked out. She handed it over to management.
She told me she didn’t think until after she’d turned it in that it was really wierd to find that much money spread out neatly on a made bed, and perhaps it had been a set up by management to test her. I don’t know if hotels really do things like that to their staff or not.
I was working as a sales associate for a retail computer/video game store in the mall. As I was doing my thing straightening up around the store, 2 guys were making a purchase at the front desk. They started walking out the front of the store and were well into the mall hallway when I noticed a bank envelope laying on the counter. I grabbed it and called out to them, “Hey, did you guys leave this?” They came back and as they thanked me they handed me $10. “You don’t have to do that,” I said. They explained that the envelope had over $1000 and was intended for a down payment on a car they were going to buy.
Another time, I was waiting in line on campus at an ATM to make a withdrawl. They guy in front of me finished and left. I was getting ready to insert my card when I saw $20 in the withdrawl bin. Realizing that the guy before me didn’t grab all his money, I grabbed it and ran to try to find the guy, but he was long gone. I ended up keeping it.
I found a couple of wallets at work, both with about $300 in them. I got them back to their owners. There was never any doubt.
The most I’ve ever found was seven dollars in front of the local middle school. I was biking past (on my way to the HS actually) and saw a flash of green under my wheel. I immediately put the brakes on and turned around. One of my friends has done better; he went to the ATM to get $20 for lunch, and found a 20 sitting in the tray. No withdrawal neccessary. He wouldn’t buy me an ice cream though–jerk :rolleyes:
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Now I’m mixing up my boards.
Make that:
Most I found was 5 bucks in the locker room. I was like the only one in there, and I had no idea how to get it back to it’s owner, so I pocketed it. I used it to buy my lunch a few days later when I forgot mine.
I found $250 in a blank envelope.
During my semester in Europe, my roommate and I were waiting at a metro stop in Rome. Looking down on the tracks, we saw a 100,000 Lira bill (about $70 at the time) sitting on the tracks. The temptation to jump down on the tracks and retrieve it was pretty strong, but since the tunnel curved at that point, there would have been very little warning once the next train approached. So we just sat there watching the bill for about seven or eight minutes, constantly wishing that we’d moved a minute sooner. Ah well.
Me too. I found an envelope lying on the floor of the card store I worked in years ago, and inside was a $100 bill.
Too bad that kinda thing doesn’t happen more often, ya know?
A hundred bucks.
I was in the sixth grade and I’d just finished cleaning my room. I was in the middle of packing my bag for the next school day when I noticed that my math homework was MIA. I figured I’d probably thrown it away so I grabbed the plastic grocery sacks I’d used for garbage and dumped them out on the floor. I was sifting through all the paper, looking for my homework, when I noticed a bill.
At first I thought it was this ripped dollar that my brother had had. I was about to just leave it alone but something in me said to pick it up. So I did. It was a shiny, new hundred dollar bill. My sister was there (we shared a room), so I had to pay her to keep quiet. I said I’d give her $20. And the younger of my older brothers was my best friend, so I split the rest with him.
Years went by before I told anyone else. When I did, the oldest of my two brothers asked if it was in the form of two fifties. I said it was and he freaked out claiming that it was his. When I told him I had lied, that it was really only one bill, he still insisted that it was his and how else would a hundred bucks wind up in my room?
Well, guess you shouldn’t have been in my room anyway, huh?
A two-line post, and a total lie.
You state there was no ID. Then you state you fined the owner.
You’re the Amazing Kreskin, State Trooper And Mystic? How the *** did you know who the owner was so you could fine them? Shame on you. Sheeesh. :rolleyes:
I found 20.00 in the parking lot, looked around. Nobody was nearby, either in or out of a car. I pocketed it. I also found a checkbook at the Bronx Zoo once. It had a balance of over 7,000.00 in it. I got to a payphone, found the owner’s phone # through information and left them a message. Likely they’d have cancelled the account anyway before they got the message ( or, regardless of a stranger’s call ).
I talked to the owner that evening, and I FedEx’d the checkbook back. No reward money- but then again, I don’t believe in being paid in cash for being a decent human being. I also don’t take money for helping to change a flat tire.
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