Just recently while I walking down the road and picking up cans I found a dollar bill of all things laying in a ditch. That’s something you don’t find every day and needless to say it got my undivided attention mighty quick. Finding that dollar bill made the starving artist in me all giddy as I fervently looked around for more. But no luck. That lone little George was all there was. It was in good shape and still crisp so I picked it up, flattened it out and stashed it right in my wallet. I’m the sorta guy who enjoys surprises and I often encounter a few whenever I’m hiking the roads picking trash and whatnot. But finding money along the road is a rarity. I’ve picked up a lot of trash over the years, bagged Lord only knows how many pounds of aluminum cans, and occasionally will even find something useful like a good set of pliers the other day. But this was only the second time I ever found cash laying alongside the road. I once found a five dollar bill a few years ago and now I have discovered another lost dollar. It got me to wondering how it got there since dollar bills are one of the very few items people will not toss out their car windows while driving down the road. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional and maybe the fellow didn’t even know he lost it. It was only a dollar but it still made me happy to find it because I’m a dollar richer and I don’t have to report it on my taxes. What a wonderful world it would be if litterbugs ever decided to start tossing all their free cash out their windows and less trash. A crazy thought I know and one that would surely send any banker into a conniption fit just hearing me utter such nonsense. But how else are we going to get people to get in their ten thousand steps per day like they are supposed to?
