A couple of money stories
When I was about 11, I was out playing footie with my (slightly older) brother and his mate. At some point, the ball gets hoofed into a bush and, with me being the youngest, I have to go and get it. When I pick up the ball from the bottom of this bush, I spot what looks like a £20 note. I pick it up and discover it is a £20 note wrapped around 14 other £20 notes. £300! Result. Three of us, three hundred quid, a hundred quid each. Sound.

As we walk home, we debated what we are going to do with the money, though mine and my brother's parts of the conversation revolve around how we will smuggle an Amiga into the house.

We are home for about 20 minites when there's a knock on the door. Idiot friend has gone home and told his mum about the whole thing (he was 15 at the time, ffs!).

His mum tells our mum and we end up having to take it to the police station, where we are told we can get it back if someone doesn't claim it. We never got it back. I'm assuming the nice police sergant took it the pub that night.

When we got back home, my mum told us that, had our mate's mother not insisted we went to the police station there and then, she would have let us keep it and made out that we handed it in. Arses.

More recently, I was stood in the queue at McDonalds when I spotted a tenner on the floor. I tied my laces and picked it up. Again, this one was wrapped around a couple of twenties. Biggest hangover Maccies meals ever.

Just yesterday, I was in the Trafford Centre, waiting for the missus to pay for something when some bloke taps me on the shouder and says "excuse me mate, you've just dropped a tenner" I look down and lo and behold, there's a tenner on the floor. "oh, cheers mate" says I and I pick it up. The missus sees all this and starts to have a go at me for keeping notes in my pockets, when I know I always drop them. I waited until we were out of earshot of the bloke who had told me a dropped the money and pointed out to the missus that it wasn't my tenner. She shut up after that.
(ScousersPet, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 10:30, Reply)