The incident Tina is on about in her comments about picking up the money happened one day when my sister Alicia and I were walking through Doncaster, It was a cold winter afternoon about 4 pm and the road was very quiet, only us and this man who had just come out of the pup we were passing. Well we thought he was a little drunk the clue being he was bouncing of the wall at one side of him to the road on the other side and back again.
As we followed behind him we noticed that he was loosing money from the leg of his trousers, as he walked more and more was hitting the ground. We followed him picking up all these pound coins that were leaving a trail behind him, ( we think he must of won them on the one arm bandit as there was only pound coins).
A little further on his packet of cigarettes came down the leg and landed on the ground, Wow this is some hole he has in his pocket we thought. At last he stopped at a taxi rank,so we approach him with the money and cigarettes and told him he was loosing it out of his pocket, he gave us a look and said finders keepers keep it, your cigarettes we said, not allowed them keep them and got into a taxi and left us standing there looking after him then looking at our hand full of pound coins, we then looked at each other in disbelieve.
As we were working teachers and I was on my own with the children and paying a mortgage and bills it looked like a fortune to us.
What shall we do after some thought we decided to go to BHS and have a drink and a big cream cake.
We counted the coins and they totaled over £30 wow all our birthdays at once.
When we got into the Bhs we remembered the cigarette packet and thought we would have a look and see how many there was before we through them away.
I opened the pack and just sat staring at it speechless my sister starting to panic saying what is it all thoughts going through her head, all but the right one for there sitting in the packet was a roll of notes with an elastic band round them, our cake never got eaten, I showed her the packet and watch her face a mixture of shock, surprise all mixed together, I am going to the toilets I whispered afraid someone would know what we had found, we crept away feeling guilt and fear mixed with all other thoughts and feelings.
As we counted with the money with shaking hands we discovered there was over £300.
What could we do we did not know the person or where he was from, would the police believe us if we told them, then we thought it's not as if we had not told the person and just kept it, SO we went to Blackpool for the week-end and said thank you to a very drunk man who ever he was.
Jeanette Spain
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Wow! There was a stroke of luck!! I really do think some people are born lucky. Would you say you were?
Would anybody believe that could happen? How fortunate you are :O) You'd better come and rub shoulders with us all here, We could all do with it :O)
Just a thought..... Why don't you go on "Deal or no deal"? you could come away with a fortune!
Jeanette is the most fortunate person I know, if there was a high wind and a fiver flying around it would fly right into her hand!!
When Jeanette found that 50Euro note walking to our house Dave had just come home walking the same route five minutes before Jeanette!
I think it only fare that if Jay finds any more money she remembers who her friends are :O)
Yes I am lucky as well winning and finding the money I am lucky in that I have my health which is good and I have true happiness and good friends what more could I want
Jeanette Spain
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