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Feb. 16th, 2006 06:14 pmI found ten dollars today. Clearly someone is trying to tell me something, but the signals are very mixed.
It wasn't even sitting on the grass or tucked in a corner of a room or something. It was lying there, folded in half, in the middle of the sidewalk. It may have been some kid's lunch money -- there's a school nearby -- but as nobody was around and school had already started, I picked it up and pocketed it.
There's always that dilemma when one finds cash just lying around in a public place. It feels like theft to take it, but it's not as though you can give it to the nearest person and ask if they've seen someone drop it. I suppose you could turn it in to the police, but I hadn't time and anyway who actually calls the police for a missing ten dollars? It costs that much in taxpayer money just to pay them to come get it.
So I have decided that the most appropriate reaction is to take the money and spend it on someone else. That way you yourself have the warm sensation of having done something nice, someone else gets the benefit of a guilt-free ten dollar gift, and the original bearer gets the good karma of their ten dollars being spent in a fashion that makes others happy.
Of course, Greg House would have told me to spend it on hookers and blow, but he is only my hero, not my guru. Besides, he has the health insurance to cope with whatever one would catch from a five dollar hooker.
So, I have taken the ten dollar bill and placed it in front of my little Ganesh on my bedside table, though he prefers M&Ms -- long story, but I have reasonable evidence. I'm sure he'll have an opinion. So I will sleep on the idea and let my dreams tell me where to spend it tomorrow.
It wasn't even sitting on the grass or tucked in a corner of a room or something. It was lying there, folded in half, in the middle of the sidewalk. It may have been some kid's lunch money -- there's a school nearby -- but as nobody was around and school had already started, I picked it up and pocketed it.
There's always that dilemma when one finds cash just lying around in a public place. It feels like theft to take it, but it's not as though you can give it to the nearest person and ask if they've seen someone drop it. I suppose you could turn it in to the police, but I hadn't time and anyway who actually calls the police for a missing ten dollars? It costs that much in taxpayer money just to pay them to come get it.
So I have decided that the most appropriate reaction is to take the money and spend it on someone else. That way you yourself have the warm sensation of having done something nice, someone else gets the benefit of a guilt-free ten dollar gift, and the original bearer gets the good karma of their ten dollars being spent in a fashion that makes others happy.
Of course, Greg House would have told me to spend it on hookers and blow, but he is only my hero, not my guru. Besides, he has the health insurance to cope with whatever one would catch from a five dollar hooker.
So, I have taken the ten dollar bill and placed it in front of my little Ganesh on my bedside table, though he prefers M&Ms -- long story, but I have reasonable evidence. I'm sure he'll have an opinion. So I will sleep on the idea and let my dreams tell me where to spend it tomorrow.
