Today, i was driving down HWY 32 towards Grafton, when all of the sudden i saw something blowing all over the road.
MONEY.....LOTS of it, all over the place.
I quickly stopped and just started picking it up. Singles, fives, tens, twentys, fiftys......then a bank bag, FULL of cash.
I just looked at it, stuffed what i had in my hands and threw it into my car. Lauriejean tried to help me as much as she could, but still recovering from her back surgery, she couldn't move as fast as i could.
There must have been several thousand dollars. I saw the name on the bag, which was a church that was litterally right up the hill from there.
Two sheriff's cars pulled up behind me, and i explained what i had found. A few minutes later, a car pulled into the church parking lot, and sure enough, it was the man that had lost the money. He had put it on the roof of his car, forgot it, and didn't realize it was gone until he got to the bank where he was supposed to deposit it.
I never had that much money in my hands in my life. But i never thought to keep it. I could have "grabbed" it and drove off before anyone knew, but i wasn't raised that way.
Before the man showed up, i showed the bag to the cops and said out loud "I wonder why someone would have left it open?" then i noticed, the zipper was broken, obviously driven over by someone just before we got there.
The man and i walked the road farther down, to make sure htere wasn't any that i missed. I found another twenty, went to hand it to him, and he told me to keep it.
I know WHY God had LJ and I as the ones to find it, as HE knew we would do the right thing.
It's frustrating though, as God knows how much we could have used the money. But me, i could have NEVER lived with the guilt of keeping money that i knew who it belonged to.
It seems that when i do something right, something bad always seems to happen right after. I hope it doesn't end up that way this time.
Never a dull moment, it seems! LOL!