The Two Reasons Why I Walk the Perimeter of Gas Station Shops
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I have enjoyed the stories told here. I havn't been so lucky as to find more than a few pennies or a dime. Once I had found a couple of dimes and was at a gas station where the owner wouldn't let a couple get gas on a credit card without buying over a dollars worth. I gave the couple those dimes so they could buy enough gas to get home. They were on a motor cycle so that probably got them home.
At the end of each shift, we found so many coins under the drive-thru window at the coffee shop where I worked. We just put them in the tip jar and divvied them up if the drawer wasn't short. People dropped them while money was exchanged and most customers didn't want to bother with them.
I found a $20 bill at a C store. Two weeks later, I lost $18 out of my shorts pocken that had a hole in it. Karma...
My son had a $20 bill hit him in the face when we were swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. He also looked down at a Mardi Gras parade and found $5.
He was always finding money when he was little.
He was always finding money when he was little.
@Bibbitmom wrote:
My son had a $20 bill hit him in the face when we were swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. He also looked down at a Mardi Gras parade and found $5.
He was always finding money when he was little.
Thats where we just found 5 bucks, IN the Gulf of Mexico.
@CoffeeQueen wrote:
I don't find money but I always find lottery tickets. I pick them up and check them. I want to win without buying a ticket. That would be so fun.
When I was a kid I would go to the horse track with my Grandparents. I'd see people scooping up the discarded tickets and asked why. My Grandfather said they were hoping to find a winning ticket that someone excitedly through up in the air when they won, or threw away before realizing they had won.
Seems like a lot of work checking all those tickets for a possible payoff.
I walked at a Air Force base laudrty . One day as I was getting the clothes out of the washer I find a 20 dollar bill. I reported it and after a week none claim it so it was nine. I found a ladies makeup bag one time where she had left it to get her bus. I call her made arragments to take it to her. She in turn give me a new OSU shirt.
One Christmas season my Mom was shopping in a strip mall. As she walked she happened to kick a paper bag. It jingled. It had a couple thousand dollars in it. She took it to the bank in the plaza. Apparently a store had sent an employee to the bank with a deposit they lost on their way to the bank.
I guess it worked out better for that employee than for Uncle Billy.
I guess it worked out better for that employee than for Uncle Billy.
This is so inspiring! I really need to look harder!
I was shopping at Home Depot and put my cart back in the cart corral after shopping when I saw a purse in the cart in front of me. It wasn't a SMALL purse either! I went in the store and asked but no one had reported losing a purse. I looked through it and it was loaded with gift cards--it was the week after Christmas so they were probably presents. I also found a checkbook for a business nearby, a salvage/recycle yard that I have been to. I realized the owner or manager must be missing their purse so I drove over there. There was a man behind the counter so I asked if "Mary" was there. He said "my wife? No she isn't" so I held up the purse and said "does she know she's missing this yet?" His eyes got big and he said a few bad words. LOL Then he called her and just messed with her for a minute and then told her someone had found her purse at the hardware store. She had not even realized it was missing. He gave me a $50 reward for returning it. I tried to turn in down but he insisted and I did drive through a snow storm to return it so I ended up accepting it.
My sister walks everyday and in many of the parking lots that are located near bars, she has found several $100 bills. In one week she found $400. I found 35 cents yesterday! That's my luck.
@French Farmer wrote:
Well, the first reason is a no-brainer. It is something we should do as a matter of performing the shop. Check the curbing, the air pumps, the MID, etc.- whatever the client wants us to check.
The second reason is just crazy!
You've heard this before, but I'll say it again, for some reason, I can spot cash of various denominations just lying in the grass. It is though, becoming more prevalent as I walk the perimeter of any gas station shop.
Are some folks that oblivious or careless with their cash that they lose it with the wind? I don't know. Just last week, as I was walking the perimeter of a "Yellow" gas station, I looked down and at my feet was a damp, folded twenty dollar bill.
In the past few weeks, I have come across, tens, twenties, fives, and one dollar bills, not to mention the coins lying about the edge of the pavement or in the grassy areas.
Since I am a believer in giving without recognition of doing so, I can say without anyone here knowing who I am, much of the found money is given to a charity.
No offense but I just don't believe you. We've all found money laying around periodically in our lives, but the odds of one person finding that many bills in a few weeks are mind staggering. As an ex cop, I know their are people out there who get off by bragging about things that are completely false. I can't blame you, it's a mental condition, but those that believe it shame on you. Especially that one poor fool who stated,"...my sister has found several $100 bills. In one week she found $400..." Uh yeah ok. Your sister suffers from the same ailment this OP does. People use a little common sense when deciding to believe someone...
Oh btw, in the last 3 months, I won $200 or more on lotto scratchers 15 times. Wow, isn't that lucky. LMAO, SMH
Oh btw, in the last 3 months, I won $200 or more on lotto scratchers 15 times. Wow, isn't that lucky. LMAO, SMH
@HonnyBrown wrote:
When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to go running at Venice Beach. I would wear my flip-flops, put them near the bike stands, and do a few miles. One day I didn't see my shoes where I left them.
A beach bum told me that he set them aside due to the bike crowds. We got into a conversation. He spent his days combing the beach for lost items. He mostly found cash, jewelry and keys. Whatever items were not collected after a certain amount of time were cashed in and donated to third world charities.
We had a nice conversation. He was very articulate. Then he told me he realized he was an annointed chief when an eagle feather fell out of the sky and hit him in the head.
HAHA. That is hilarious, you chose the ore politically correct way of telling the OP, yeah right. Me, I was more blunt.
@sestrahelena wrote:
This is so inspiring! I really need to look harder!
For sure! I'm broke for the next few months; maybe I will take to walking in bar parking lots on Sunday mornings to see if I can find grocery $$
@Huggabear, I found A LOT of money on the ski slopes. Everyone takes money with them skiing and with their gloves and trying to stay standing while digging through pockets...money falls out. It blows into the treeline and gets hung up there. I was an excellent skiier and would be-bop through the tree line and find money constantly.
That was no reflection on French. I believe her and the others.
Why can't something randomly good happen to people in your eyes?
Why can't something randomly good happen to people in your eyes?
@Huggabear wrote:
HAHA. That is hilarious, you chose the ore politically correct way of telling the OP, yeah right. Me, I was more blunt.
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
@Huggabear wrote:
No offense but I just don't believe you. We've all found money laying around periodically in our lives, but the odds of one person finding that many bills in a few weeks are mind staggering. As an ex cop, I know their are people out there who get off by bragging about things that are completely false. I can't blame you, it's a mental condition, but those that believe it shame on you. Especially that one poor fool who stated,"...my sister has found several $100 bills. In one week she found $400..." Uh yeah ok. Your sister suffers from the same ailment this OP does. People use a little common sense when deciding to believe someone...
Oh btw, in the last 3 months, I won $200 or more on lotto scratchers 15 times. Wow, isn't that lucky. LMAO, SMH
No offense really taken "Huggabear".
It is only your opinion as an "ex-cop".
I note that you are a new contributor.
Yet your first comment is to try to insult other OPs by surreptitiously doubting some, then commenting with "clever" remarks and then offering "advice" about using "common sense".
So, I'll just say, I am sad that you feel the need to say these things.
But really, why say those things? If it made you feel better by offering specious "advice", I hope you do now.
Feel Better.
Ex cop? Yeah, right. More like ex-troll reincarnated into a new one.
@Huggabear wrote:
As an ex cop, I know their are people out there who get off by bragging about things that are completely false.
What ever happens did you ending up giving the money back or did you kept the money just asking
WOW! Really? What is wrong with her! And how did you spot it?
@JASFLALMT wrote:
Ex cop? Yeah, right. More like ex-troll reincarnated into a new one.
@Huggabear wrote:
As an ex cop, I know their are people out there who get off by bragging about things that are completely false.
"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
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