What do you do?

In the public domain, however, I don’t think there’s any legal obligation to return money laying in the street if there are no identifying marks. If you don’t know who the legitimate owner of a lost item is, there’s nothing immoral about keeping it.

MadisonConservative on April 11, 2008 at 6:30 PM

That’s right Spanky. Don’t take my sh*t. I wouldn’t.

I like how explain yourself thoroughly before telling me where to stick it. Tight.

You sound like a solid guy. I’m betting you’ll make a good family man. More than any one thing, our country needs more good families.

Step up.

Which means he could not have trusted the other person to keep their mouth shut, so the best thing, then, is to swallow hand and turn it in… and remember to drop the passenger off, before circling back, next time.

I’ve found hanf a dozen wallets, with cash and credit cards and driver’s licenses inside, over the past few years, just lying in the street or near gas station pumps, and always found the owners (knowing what a bitch it is to replace these items)… but 140 g’s, unmarked, might be a little more tempting.

I hope Fate tests me soon.

So since many of our Founding Fathers were smugglers and virtually all were tax cheats does that make them poor Christians?

Tim Burton on April 11, 2008 at 4:48 PM

And you know this how?

I would have too. Let the alpha males have their cars and mansions and credit scores that aren’t in the toilet; we betas have integrity, my friends. Let the light from Diogenes’s lantern keep you warm, Estrada!

I’m an unscrupulous Gamma male. I’d have spent every last cent.

Heh. That’s advertising you can’t buy.

Or maybe you can, for $140,000.

MadisonConservative on April 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM

If I had 140000 to blow on advertising I’d have Hillary Clinton kissing my ring and asking for my monetary benediction.

And yes, “I’m sorry” and “I’m wrong” will be very useful.

Thanks for the advice, everyone!

LOL, does anyone here have a happy marriage?

Vanceone on April 11, 2008 at 3:14 PM

Yes I do. Thank God!

A beautiful loving wife, 1 baby Olaf and another one on the way.

A happy marriage in today’s culture is only possible through the grace of God.

Love your wife like Christ loves the church and she will submit to you and honor you.

Love, patience, and listening will see us through for our forever family. :)

Vanceone on April 11, 2008 at 3:36 PM

May Happiness, Health and Prosperity follow you both for all of your days!

And, always remember these four simple words. They will stand you in good stead and save you a great deal of heartache: “Honey, I was wrong.”

I would have given it back plus .72 cents in interest it accrued while in my possession. Banks are delicate creatures and god knows they worked hard for their money. I could not sleep thinking a banker might miss a boat payment.

BL@KBIRD on April 11, 2008 at 6:43 PM

And don’t forget those struggling banker’s insurance companies.

Nice.

Tzetzes on April 11, 2008 at 5:33 PM

Somehow I figured you, of anyone here, would appreciate that snarkiness.

So since many of our Founding Fathers were smugglers and virtually all were tax cheats does that make them poor Christians?

Tim Burton on April 11, 2008 at 4:48 PM

:D Tea, anyone?

I would have given it back plus .72 cents in interest it accrued while in my possession. Banks are delicate creatures and god knows they worked hard for their money. I could not sleep thinking a banker might miss a boat payment.

BL@KBIRD on April 11, 2008 at 6:43 PM

LOL! Now that’s funny. :)

The Race Card on April 11, 2008 at 6:13 PM

Yes, a plastic ring and a government license would be so much more respectable for, say, a man with real rocks who mans up and marries a woman he’s been dating for a year, then divorces her two years later. Obviously those symbols are far more important to keeping two people together than, say, a man who works through problems and stays with his woman for seven years, even though he has no obligations to do so other than he doesn’t give up like 50% of married people do.

Like I said, cardboard, as hollow as you seem to consider the symbols of marriage, if a plastic ring is enough for you.

Completely agreed, especially since I don’t think you’d hear them all the way up there on that cardboard pedestal.

MadisonConservative on April 11, 2008 at 5:40 PM

Cardboard, like a box of Cracker Jacks. At least they have toy rings which is more respectable on the finger of a married person than the boogers you’re flickin.

You are either honest or you aren’t, period.

Now, onto bigger and better subjects…

Vanceone – Congrats! That is so awesome that you’re getting hitched! My wonderful hubs & I have been married 22 years this summer (together 24 years this summer) and it seriously seems like we just started – and compared to my folks who are about to celebrate 46 years, we ARE just getting started. I wouldn’t say it’s hard work since it’s so much fun, I’ll just pass along what has worked for us: we put each other ahead of ourselves. May your union be blessed, I’ll keep you both in my prayers tonight and tomorrow.

She says she’d be happy with whatever, but I’m an old fashioned stubborn bastard.

No one could take that seriously. It’s the opposite of old-fashioned.

Your words are wasted on me Snappy.

The Race Card on April 11, 2008 at 5:33 PM

Completely agreed, especially since I don’t think you’d hear them all the way up there on that cardboard pedestal.

Let the light from Diogenes’s lantern keep you warm, Estrada!

Nice.

My question was tongue-in-cheek, not a request for a sanctimonious sermon.

MadisonConservative on April 11, 2008 at 5:02 PM

Watching other’s marriages fail…

Another excuse not to grab your own sack and man up. Sanctimony is a word used by people afraid of frank talk about values…like liberals.

Your words are wasted on me Snappy. I’m not the one you need to convince of anything.

I would have too.

When even AP said he’d give it back, I thought for sure the story would be about a man who found a cache of Mafia money. ;-)

Does seven years with the same girl exclusively with marriage waiting on my ability to afford a ring count?

MadisonConservative on April 11, 2008 at 3:31 PM

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Not a chance, dude. But maybe deep down you figure anyone who is willing to be strung along that long isn’t worth marrying anyway. And you could be right.

I’ve been married 29 wonderful years to a guy who didn’t have much way back when, but he was willing to share what he had and, oh, has it been worth it.