- Joined
- Sep 15, 2013
Here's a list:
While collecting used beer cans at a college football game (the collected cans get money for the aluminum, and that money then goes to charities), I found a $100 bill in the grass. I work retail, so I could determine that the bill was in fact real. Not knowing how to return it to its owner, I kept it. Later I felt bad about keeping a lost large bill and decided to donate it to a local non-profit wildlife rehabilitator.
While walking to class one day I found someone's credit card in the grass (again) near the parking lot. I researched their name in the university's email database, and told that person that I had taken their card to lost and found.
Another, more recent time when walking to class, I saw a piece of paper on the sidewalk, and I had that feeling it was an important piece of paper. After picking it up, unfolding it, and examining it, I realized that it was someone's California birth certificate. It had the watermark and everything. I contacted the owner through Facebook, and we arranged for a meeting time/place for me to return it. Needless to say, the man was extremely grateful and relieved, promising me that he'd be more careful with his important documents from now on. He thinks that the birth certificate somehow fell out of his bag as he was heading to work.
Apparently, you can find many interesting and important things if you're always looking at the ground.
While collecting used beer cans at a college football game (the collected cans get money for the aluminum, and that money then goes to charities), I found a $100 bill in the grass. I work retail, so I could determine that the bill was in fact real. Not knowing how to return it to its owner, I kept it. Later I felt bad about keeping a lost large bill and decided to donate it to a local non-profit wildlife rehabilitator.
While walking to class one day I found someone's credit card in the grass (again) near the parking lot. I researched their name in the university's email database, and told that person that I had taken their card to lost and found.
Another, more recent time when walking to class, I saw a piece of paper on the sidewalk, and I had that feeling it was an important piece of paper. After picking it up, unfolding it, and examining it, I realized that it was someone's California birth certificate. It had the watermark and everything. I contacted the owner through Facebook, and we arranged for a meeting time/place for me to return it. Needless to say, the man was extremely grateful and relieved, promising me that he'd be more careful with his important documents from now on. He thinks that the birth certificate somehow fell out of his bag as he was heading to work.
Apparently, you can find many interesting and important things if you're always looking at the ground.
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