I just found 20 quid on the street

[Artemis]

I found £20 on the street once as well, and at no point did any alternative to spending it on myself ever cross my mind.

[actwithoutwords]

Heh, strange. I didn't actually mean the thread to be a should I keep it/ should I give it away discussion. It's not enough money to be much of a moral dilemma. Just was interested in practical suggestions as to where the best place to give it to would be.
I never properly considered hanging on to it, despite how tempting it is. Odd. Catholic upbringing maybe? In which case maybe I should spend it on condoms and prick holes in them or something.

[ccab]

If you found a 1p piece on the floor would you hand that in? Come on, hold on to it & buy your woman something nice.

[actwithoutwords]

If you found a 1p piece on the floor would you hand that in? Come on, hold on to it & buy your woman something nice.

I don't have a woman anymore unfortunately. *sobs*
I gave her away to a tramp.

[Brunette Romana 2]

I would always give it to charity, always. Found a fiver recently, and put it in a Banardos box. I'm not a rich bastard, not working at the mo, actually, but have this weird sense of morals; don't feel it's mine to keep. So good on you, AWW.

[Uncle TechTip]

A rare Charles Darwined £20, eh? Usually he's only on the tenners. ;)

Ok, that'll be my counterfeit practice note... you can keep that. Dickens, Darwin, they're all the same to me.

And after all that, I've just remembered it was bloody Elgar!

[ccab]

If you found a 1p piece on the floor would you hand that in? Come on, hold on to it & buy your woman something nice.

I don't have a woman anymore unfortunately. *sobs*
I gave her away to a tramp.

All right then, buy as big a bunch of flowers as you can find for £20 (it'll probably be a posy) look for the prettiest girl in the street & give them to her.

[Beck]

A rare Charles Darwined £20, eh? Usually he's only on the tenners. ;)

Ok, that'll be my counterfeit practice note... you can keep that. Dickens, Darwin, they're all the same to me.

And after all that, I've just remembered it was bloody Elgar!

Mine's got this bloke on it:

[Mister Six]

A rare Charles Darwined £20, eh? Usually he's only on the tenners. ;)

Ok, that'll be my counterfeit practice note... you can keep that. Dickens, Darwin, they're all the same to me.

And after all that, I've just remembered it was bloody Elgar!

And he's been swapped out for some new, boring bugger on the latest round of twenties.

[Sam]

Recently I found £20 in a shop and £10 in a pub. Both were on the floor and there was noone around who looked like they lost it. So I kept it. Am I going to hell?

[columbay]

I found 20 quid between some CD's in HMV a couple of years back, bought a Bad Brains CD with 10 and gave 10 to a tramp. Problem solved. Sort of.

[Santa's Boyfriend]

Recently I found £20 in a shop and £10 in a pub. Both were on the floor and there was noone around who looked like they lost it. So I kept it. Am I going to hell?

Yes, but not because of the money.

[Sovereign]

just bloody keep it!! Karma will steal it off you anyway the next time you leave your wallet on the bus, and besides its only £20.

[extradave]

Give it away to charity (what about the homeless?) and then go to a casino and bet 20 pounds of your own money on Roullette.

By exploiting the laws of Karma you should be quids in, my son.

[easytarget]

The phrase "like finding money in the street" should be applied here. These things all average out, you will eventually loose 20 quid in some unfair scam at some point in your life.

Keep it. It's your statistical responsibility.

I found a really nice Samsung Blackjack phone in the street yesterday morning, (fairly nice condition, a bit scratched and inexplicably no battery). I thought about keeping it for a few evil minutes then stuck the SIM card in my phone and dug through the voice mails looking for friends and family to call. Eventually I contacted the rightful owner (well, her mum) and she and the phone were reunited.

You can't do that with an anonymous score.

[ccbaxter]

Yesterday I wore a pair of trousers I hadn't worn for a while (though they were mine), and found a ten-pound note in the back pocket. I know technically I'm not actually £10 richer, but the moment did seem like something I should feel a little jaunty about.

[Ghostpickle]

I once found a twenty pound note on the floor of a Chinese takeaway, I would have felt guilty picking it up and then spending it somewhere else, particularly as the people behind the counter saw everything and still had happy, smiley faces, so I spent all of it in there as I felt it was the right thing to do.

If it was McDonalds though, I would have picked up the twenty quid and visibly walked across to the shop on the opposite side of the road...

[Santa's Boyfriend]

I once found a spliff in a chinese takeaway.  I didn't smoke tobacco so I handed it to the lady behind the counter.  She wasn't amused, and just threw it away.  Even if I did smoke tobacco I doubt I would have smoked it as there's no real way to know what was in it.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Roll up some Old Holborn in it and smoke it in front of a homeless

[Artemis]

Does anyone here actually believe in karma? Because I think it's a nice concept but as a practical reality it's a load of old toss.

[Glebe]

I friend of mine found â,¬20 the other day, actually.

[rudi]

Piss through a letterbox then post the note as compensation.

[Pepotamo1985]

I found 5000 Euros in a park in Nice, near an airport. I spent it all.

[Vaguely Phallic]

My friend and I found a purse together the other day (just near a police station). It had about a tenner in cash and a load of cards. I like to think I still would have handed it in even if I had found it by myself (and so did my friend) - but I might have taken a bit of money first, as a reward.

And then!:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,2059179,00.html
So it was all a test! And we passed at least.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Improbably, I once found a wallet in the back of a cab. Of course, I opened it ,and discovered that it contained £50. I genuinely toyed with the idea of nicking it, but inside the wallet was a picture of this bloke and his wife/girlfriend looking very nice and happy.

Had that pic not been there, I would've probably nicked the cash and given the wallet to the cabbie. But because humanity got the better of me, I gave the whole thing to the cabbie. Who probably nicked the money*. So in essence, I was involved in a crime in some way.

I should have just stolen his identity - probably would've been much easier.

* if you think that's racist, it's not. He looked like a jobbing supply teacher.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Sorry: double post

[Ambient Sheep]

I found 5000 Euros in a park in Nice, near an airport. I spent it all.

Oooh, some French drug dealer probably got his legs broken for losing that payment...