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lil  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 25, 2015

Finding a quarter is one thing. This is the first time I found a 20 dollar bill. I believe in an indifferent universe, but if I believed in an engaged universe, I'd ask: Is this a test or a reward?





OftenBen  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

Can it be both? Neither? (I'm doing my best to think outside of binaries, so the word 'or' has become a sign for me to pay attention)

lil  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So glad to hear that -- and to have you call me on binary thinking. Bravo!

Note: Random readers, OftenBen is referring to an intense previous post.

nowaypablo  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dear god, this website is an intellectual goldmine.

OftenBen  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wasn't so much a call out as an observation, but you're welcome!

sounds_sound  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is that both or neither?

Meriadoc  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've been lucky enough to find money three times: a 20, a 20, and a Benji. I found the 100 when I was 12 years old. I don't have a fucking clue what I spent it on, but in the fascist state of my father's household at the time, $100 was, what I came to find out later, what my mother was allowed to use to raise us with per week. So it was a windfall for me. I think I bought lunch for myself and my friends for the first time in my life.

kleinbl00  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I found a diamond ring in a parking lot once.

It was outside a fairly romantic restaurant. I envisioned all sorts of horrific scenarios where someone lost this heirloom. I put up signs all over the building, left my name with the restaurant. Never got a call. I gave it two months.

Then I took it to a jeweler at the mall. They ran it through the ultrasonic cleaner and put it in their conductivity meter. Yeah, Moissanite or CZ. The scenarios in my head changed tenor.

I listed it on eBay and included the story of its provenance. Think I made $250 off it or something. All in all, pretty dope.

_refugee_  ·  3522 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The last time I found significant money it was like $36 dollars, I was in summer college (so 16/17) at the time, and it was like a god's sum.

Definitely spent all that shit.