Subj : Liver and death To : Joe Mackey From : George Pope Date : Thu Jan 27 2022 09:27:34 > CP wrote3 -- >> > I'll often find mechanical pencils people have dropped. >> Hey, there for the taking -- else they;klkl be piocked up by grounds crews & > either kept, or discarded with the cigarette butts they sweep up. > Same with pens which I take to the office. If it works just long enough > for someone to sign some paper work its served its purpose. > We go through a lot of pens with people signing something and pocketing > them. Maybe those found pens were yours to begin with. . . :) Seems fair, to replace pens from the same property they were 'disappeared' from. >> with money (significant to me amnounts); one was found >> by the bus driver on the bus I suspected I'd lost it on > In NYC a few years ago I found a bank card laying on a seat when I got > off, some teen-aged girl had been there, and turned it into the driver, who > gave me a "Oh, ok" puzzled look. Maybe he'd never had an item turned in before; I was saddened the day I called transit here to make a commendation for a driver who went beyond his job to help someone & the person answerinig had to get a supervisor, as in 16 years she'd never had a commendation come in (scads of complaints, though!); they found the right form, eventually! Here people generally return wallets/etc to the driver, or to an owner of a card in the wallet; I brought a walet to the local branch for the bank the wallet had a debit card for, for them to contact the owner of the wallet. I declined to give my info (bank asked if they could communicarte it to the owner--apparently some people want the bank to tell the owner they have the wallet & to call them (perhaps to trade it for a cash reward?) > Like the old joke: > Would you turn in a wallet/purse if it had thousands of dollar in it? > I would if it belonged to a poor person. Oh, of course! Like my buddy's dad who found a suitcase containing $20K under a garbage dumpster next to the grease dumpster he was emptying. Some thing told him to look in his rearview mirror one last time as he was pulling out forward, & he saw the handle. He didn't turn it in (rightfully so, IMO--why get taxed on it, after the police go a year with no claimants("d'uhhh, officer, I lost $20K I was gonna use to buy crack in resale quantity. Do you have it?") > The last time I distinctly recall was St Patrick's Day where the city had > a big street fair and all. Big crowds of people bumping into each other. > When I got home my wallet was missing. Dang, someone picked my pocket > was my first thought. I've never been pickpocketed, but I used to wear pants tight enough so I'd feel my wallet even being nudged from the right-back pocket where I kept it (& where I could easily whip around to my right to nab the perp. Now I'm in a huge power wheelchair & crowds generally partt for me, even extremely dense/stoned ones. . . some times someone will start yelling, & physically(but gently enough not to start a fight) opening up a path, when it's slow to move on its own.. . > I called the bank and they cancelled my cards. > The next morning putting on my work clothes there was my wallet. I > didn't even have it with me. Duh. :) I hate when that happens. I once was able to uncancel my cards for the one bank, bu the others hasd a no backsies rule, even if I proved who I was through answering questions. > I don't usually carry much cash on me, less than $10. I normally don't -- unless it's shopping day, pre-covid, then I'd grab $150 to payt cash without getting bills back in change in the various places I went to (lots of $5 & $10 bills); but now my wallet is securely in a small purse that's in front of me, hanging from my neck. > But its such a bother having to replace bank cards, ID, etc. > Try and ID yourself at the DMV without a drivers license. :) I don't do DMV but once every 5 years to update my provincial government photo ID & medical card. But my bank assured me I could come in & get a couple hundred from my account on my word & signature alone (they've all known me for years; also if anyone else had theatre disguise & tried, they'd ask, "How do you want that $200?" & if he said anything but 10s & 5s, it'd raise a flag!) > I carry about $25-30 concealed in my wallet, mixed among various cards > and all. That is my emergency stash. Those bills have been in there for > years. > I also have about $100 emergency stash in my desk at home, hidden here > and there. Again, been in there for years. Good to have a stash or three because you just never know.. . > Once upon a time I didn't have a bank account. My pay cheque was cashed > at the bank it was drawn on. By the time I paid my bills (could pay I used to do that, but now if it's not your bank, they charge you a non- cuistomer service fee. That ticks me off, as the cheque writer paid that bank to give his cheque some value &to back it up. Banks no longer make a simple phone call to verify funds in the writer'sd account, as in the time between verifying & paying me, the other person could empty their account. > I was burgled once and my money was safe, the thief never thought of, or > had time, to go though that stack of mail with a rubber band around it. > I also would put money in clothes in the closet and for years I would > pull out something and find money in a shirt/pants pocket. :) Hiding it in plain sight is considered the best way, like how New York diamon jewelers walk around with $100K in diamonds in a grubby paper lunch bag My dad worked in a prison camp & he said how they'd do the occasional bunk check for contraband & he never wasted his time searching, under the mattress, or emptying boxes, instead he'd go straight to the item on his first check. Freakerd the cons out big-time! As they saw him grab their bag of home-made hooch without even searching -- this, of course, led to much suspicion between the inmates (oh well) > I used to drink a lot of pop but now its more of a treat. I had a can > with my Christmas dinner. When young, I drank a lot, then I weaned myself to where I had 3oz of root beer once a year or so, usuially at the one pizza place where they gave me a 32oz paper cup for pop & had 5oz cups for water, I used the big one for my ice water to accompany my za, & filled the other halfwy for dessert. > I'll buy a 12 pack and it'll last me nearly two years. I buy them fairly regularly, as my daughter likes it & she & my wife MUST was down certain meals with a can. I've had 8 in my mini fridge in my room/office for several years now -- might be 7 by now, I haven't checked. I mainly only hasd them when working an early shift & guzzled one for the quickj caffeine boost while I was making a coffee. >> courtesy cousin >> someone who is close like family, but not related > Sort of like a kissin' cousin. Kissin' Cousins are generally blood related? & certainly not platonic. . . She's the daughter of my mom's BFF. I started calling her "Cuz" jocularly a while back & it's stuck -- I call her mom Auntie, too. . Close enough -- I interact more with them than my real cousins & their folk. . . --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757) .