Edge City by Terry and Patty LaBan for July 04, 2023

What makes her think the person in the office won’t keep it?

I loved picking up loose change lying around. Never found a fifty, though…

Going thru big box store parking lot. I took the long way round for some reason. See folded bills on ground. $100, 5-20s. Sure, I will turn it in to the store any year now. I have found several debit cards which I do turn into the banks that issued them. I get a kick out the reaction I get from the bank people. It is like they can’t believe it.

The one time I found significant money at a amusement park I gave my name and number to the office and told them the person who lost it could claim it by calling me and telling me how much he’d lost. Otherwise someone in the office was going to pocket it. Never got a call.

I’ve found money in the parking lot. I asked the people around me, no one lost it. So, being it was a time I needed extra, I was able to use it. I’ve also lost money and hope that who ever found it needed it like I did.

Match it and donate a $100 to a shelter or food bank. You’ll still feel guilty for keeping it though.

The problem here is that, as the comments section has already well-established, neither of these two quite have enough of a leg to stand on for their arguments.

My mother was a b****h. One time on vacation I went with her to a laundromat. I found 5 quarters in a machine and thought I was rich. When I told her she demanded I give her the money. Her reason? “It wouldn’t look right for an 8 years old to walk out with 5 quarters.”

Years ago I found a folded wad of cash — $77 — in the lobby of the apartment building I lived in. I suppose it fell out of someone’s pocket. Much as I would have liked to find the owner and return it, there just wasn’t any realistic way to do that. So I kept it. I’ve lost a few valuable things in my lifetime, and if the universe was making up for some of that, so be it. No guilt, no regrets.

No way to truly identify the owner, and highly unlikely the owner would think of going to the lost and found to find out if anyone turned it in. End of discussion.