Throwing money around

[jhetley]

Another minor puzzlement of life: Maine has a "bottle bill" with a deposit for beverage bottles and cans. So folks still throw the things out their car windows, but at least the winos and homeless can wander the streets and highways of our fair state and pick the empties up for $.05 cash. See them walking with their bags, see them looking under bushes and pawing through the garbage.

But why do I still find actual money lying on the sidewalk? Regularly? Like as, coins and occasional bills? Now I'll grant that I probably spend more energy picking up a penny than I could get back in food value from the blasted thing, but dimes? Quarters? A $5.00 bill lying on the sidewalk? Do all the winos have cataracts and can't see anything smaller than a Bud can?

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Have you read Megan Lindholm's Wizard of the Pigeons? Her first novel, I think; your observation reminds me of it.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've read that one. Just checked the library's on-line catalog and they only have one under her real name, as opposed to Robin Hobb.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

She still publishes as Lindholm in the UK, I think--but yeah, Wizard is out of print, and has been for (mumble) decades. Alas.