Thursday, two tales, no cash. The first from Kirsty - a muddy fiver she'd found in a puddle in Glasgow. She actually brought it in to show me, but I couldn't be taking that much dirty cash - it'd get her a week's worth of food from Aldi!
Next it was Nix, who tells me she passed by 3p she'd spotted on the bus floor as it pulled up to her stop. She couldn't face the chaos that would ensue if she held up the stampede to bend down and get it. A little disappointing that she didn't think to kick the coins out of the bus door as it opened and collect them from the pavement when she got out, but hey.
Friday afternoon, Simon came over with a 5p he'd found "in Gemma's pen pot" and asked if that would get him another mention on the blog. I suppose if you were being really pedantic and inflexible about it, technically that could be called theft, but I'd never be so ungrateful.
Sunday afternoon, I was queueing up to pay for my petrol, when a man who worked there sidled up to the queue with an "is this anybody's?", before bending down and picking up a fiver. He was stood right next to me! It would have been perfectly plausible for it to have been mine, all I needed to do was say "oh, yeah, thanks" but I knew it wasn't mine. Argh! In the end, I muttered weakly, "no it's yours, go for it", and kicked myself all the way home. Not easy to do when you're driving.
Later on Sunday I went to visit my nan, who handed me a penny she'd found in Boots in Windsor at 1.23pm the previous Saturday.
Week Sixty-seven
How much found: 6p
Total found so far: £51.92
How it could now be spent: a masthead navigation light for seagoing vessels.
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Gaz, surprisingly enough the project has not yet been affected by the financial crisis. In fact, there seems to be more higher denomination money (including notes) floating around. It's bizarre. I can only assume everyone is so busy 'taking care of the pennies' that they're missing all the other money falling out of their purses and pockets...
And Tibor, our old GAAPweb buddy, maybe I did - I hadn't considered that. Perhaps I need to stop hoarding all this money and get it back out there!
Posted by: Kerry | December 03, 2008 at 05:15 PM
Maybe you are the one who caused the financial crisis :)
Posted by: tibor | November 28, 2008 at 08:43 PM
Serious question: Have you noticed a decline in the volume of unwanted pennies and change around the streets or has the credit crunch & economic crisis not yet impacted you?????
Posted by: gaz | November 28, 2008 at 10:45 AM