I found a ten dollar bill in my yard this morning. It was on my property, but I'm reasonably certain it is not mine. As silly as it may seem, I don't feel morally proper taking ownership of the funds to spend as I wish. But I have no way of determining who it belongs to, nor do I have the time to do a neighbor to neighbor inquisition to determine if it is one of theirs. Were it a significantly larger amount, I would take it to the police and let them handle it. However, I feel if I were to do that now, they would scoff. And then they would absorb that ten dollars to cover the man-hour cost it took them to scoff. No disrespect to the hard working men and women in blue.
My current top consideration is to give it to church. My children's Sunday school classes are presently collecting for Catholic Relief Services, and I'm thinking I'm going to exchange the ten for two fives and put a five in each of their boxes. Or maybe I'll covert it to coins so their boxes will fill up faster. That seems like a more honorable thing to do.
Not that I couldn't use the ten dollars. It's just, not my ten dollars to use.
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