People seem to like having good things happen to them — like finding money on the sidewalk. These things sometimes happen.
I found a $20 bill on the sidewalk once, and have never forgotten it.
(Unlike Rihar, I didn’t try to find the owner.)
I even won sometimes at casinos, and enjoyed that. Yes, there are more times I’ve lost. I try to forget those, but note this: no one tries to forget the times they won.
Can any of you cite any instances of anything that’s ever happened to you that was positive?
(Don’t get too personal. We probably don’t want to hear it. I know I don’t, for sure.)
But perhaps relate something like getting a 13th McNugget in a 12-piece order, or something like that. That has never happened to me, but I reckon that $20 bill I found makes up for it. (If I ever lose that twenty, I hope Rihar finds it.)
It’s the little things that make life worthwhile.
Next Week: How To Deal With Jealousy Over Good Luck Other People Have Had
There’s a small, family owned and run Filipino restaurant I go to almost every week. Sometimes they run out of certain items or I have to wait for more food to get cooked. They usually compensate by throwing in a second entree or an extra lumpia. Pretty good thing.
Did you ever get those Filipino deep-fried things — with beef inside, rolled up like a cigarillo? I could eat like ten million of those things. Forget what they’re called.
Yeah buddy, those are lumpia.
Filipino chicken – best on the planet. Korean – second. American – 3rd.
Oh. I’ve found $20, $10, $5 and $1 on the street over the years. Waiting for $50 and $100. Also found a guy’s wallet once that had over $200 in it, credit cards, DL and contact info. I called him, confirmed his address (~1/2 mile away) and drover over and dropped it off. Declined a small reward. He was astounded anyone would go out of their way. (No, the billfold wasn’t empty when I returned it!! Geesh!)
Good for you. That’s how society works. I guess when there’s ID, you’ve kinda gotta return it or you’re a low-life.
I never found a wallet with ID, but I did find a SmartPhone in a tourist area, and I turned it in to the cops because I knew they’d find its owner.
And, in return, some Good Samaritan turned in a piece of luggage of my sister’s, which fell out of a vehicle on a road, unbeknownst to the driver (me). Good people.
I regularly take walks around the industrial park where my work is located. In the past 6 months I’ve found a 1974 fifty cent piece, a rare 5 peso coin, a twenty, and a $100 bill that blew right up to me on a particularly windy day (no one was around – I checked) I also found and returned a USPS cellphone that fell out of a delivery truck (the mailman waves at me whenever he sees me now)
I was riding my bicycle home from school (8th grade) when a storm hit with golf ball size hail stones. I had dropped my bike and covered my head with my back pack when I was suddenly lifted up and tossed into the drivers seat of a pickup. A very big man pushed me across the seat then jumped in. The noise of the hail on the roof was frightening and the windshield was cracking. Just as quick, the storm passed. The man asked where I lived and drove me home. He had put my bicycle in the back of his truck. I saw blood running down his face when I thanked him for saving me. He smiled and drove away. I never saw him again.
This past week I was buying two desserts for a Christmas party. At the self check out the first went through okay but the second wouldn’t. Got an error message of bar code not identified. The associate came over and tried. No luck. The supervisor came over and tried reseting and doing it over. Failed. Finally they said, “Well, looks like you got a free cheesecake”.
My question to all of you is what are you going to do on January 10th when the civil war kicks off after that NYC Judge throws Trump in jail on those bogus accounting charges?
I’m going to go mooch some free cheesecake.
I read that the judge said jail time was not indicated.
We just can’t seem to get there! Jan 20. It’s taking forever! My question is, what’s the next big one? False flag? Psyop? Mass murder? Mass hysteria? Dogs eating cat’s tunafish?
True about the conviction but I wouldn’t put it past the Judge being pressured to give jail time. We are talking Democrats here.
I fear that we are all yearning for 1/20 and on 1/21 we will be bombarded by comments on why everything isn’t perfect now that Trump is back.
I waited as long as I could and even slept on it and finally just gave up….
Nope, no positive experiences to speak of.
Robert Brooks, the inmate who officers beat to death in that NY jail didn’t have any either and never thought he would die for scratching on his cell wall….’Brooks was here’.
I once ordered a planer from Home Depot and it was delivered broken. I took it back to the store to get it replaced, but they said since it was an online order we would have to call them. They said the only thing I could do was return it and buy another, but it had gone up like $150 dollars. So the store called the online people to fix the price. After like 30 minutes of trying to explain everything, and talking to the supervisor on the phone, the store lady just looks at me and says “Happy birthday”. ??? The online people goofed and made the price $150, instead of taking $150 off (it was a $650 tool). They couldn’t fix it, so they just let me have it at that price. Then it turned out the online people had also refunded the cost of the stand I had originally ordered as well, so after another 30 minutes of trying to get that sorted, lady says “Happy Birthday” again. Got a $100 stand for free. That was the best day!
Can any of you cite any instances of anything that’s ever happened to you that was positive? My flu test came back positive…does that count?