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?

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Wife and I exchange "found money" -- both grew up with the saying, "Find a penny, give it to a friend." Touching sentimentality, after thirty+ years together....