The Unexpected Fiver

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One of my favourite self-deceits - when you find a fiver you thought you'd spent nestling in a corner of a trouser pocket. It feels like you've found it on the street! Except it was yours anyway.

― Tom, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic sensation. Every time I do a swear, the money goes into a rarely-used inner jacket pocket. On the few occasions when I do check it, I feel like I've won the jackpot.

― Trevor, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every Winter i find a bill in my secert pocket, once the bundle coat is out of storage

― anthony, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh,Tom, you are so right on this ! An incredingbly satisfying sensation, especially if I found it inside the tiny pocket inside the pocket of some jeans.

The reverse sensation is to discover you washed any clothes with some old tissue in...disgusting.

― Laetitia, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NB this thrill is usually lessened for me because my pockets are full of assorted old tickets, receipts, scribbled phone nos and unidentifiable shite so ALL notes require a search party. But finally - those who know me take note - I cleaned them out so my joy at the hidden fiver was unconfined!

― Tom, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i as well have pockets fixed up with all sorts of things.

― anthony, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My parents found 150 pounds between the dishes ages ago. We still don't know how it got there.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At the ICA last night someone came chasing after me and Nick saying one of us had dropped £10. We just said 'ooh, thanks' and promptly spent the extra moolah taking a taxi to a vodka bar.

― suzy, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grumble grumble all I ever find in my pockets is withered conkers, bits of A-Z and ancient bus tickets. 'Snot fair.

― Emma, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You find snot, Emma? ;-)

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was working at the Record and Tape it was not uncommon to find fivers and tenners shoved into record sleeves or used as bookmarks. Once found (in a classical record!) a g of coke, which the staff of course had to 'test' for verification purposes etc.

― Andrew L, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yes. And if I'm really lucky, it's not even mine.

― Emma, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what is the pay structure working for one of yr pockets search parties, tom?

― mark s, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Overseer - 10 groats

Primary paper identifier - 7 groats

Secondary paper identifier/paper hauler - 5 groats

Lint miner - 3 groats.

― Tom, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Beware of kiddies saying "'ere mister, you've dropped a fiver". They are about to set upon with cashcard stealing scam. Especially on Tottenham Court Road.

― Pete, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

10 groats , a fucking fabian you are. My sorters are lucky i dont crush them in the wash. i had a rosary and a condom in my coat pocet today , i think this days alot about me.

― anthony, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Once when I was really really broke I was cleaning my room and saw a bill admist the dust bunnies beneath the bed. "yay, a dollar!" I thought. But when I picked it up it was a 20! delightful.

― Samantha, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This has happened to me more than I'd like to admit, it galls me to be so scatterbrained that I don't miss the odd 5 or 10 dollar bill until it turns up again.

― Nicole, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can top that. When I got my internet bank account sorted out, I was working out my monthly finances and realised that my tenant's rent cheque hadn't appeared in my account during the last two months. So I phoned her up, and she was as unaware as I was.

So she got in touch with her bank, and discovered to her horror that she hadn't paid the rent for the last 7 months. And neither of us noticed. In my defence, I had realised I was a bit short at the end of each month, but I knew I wasn't keeping tabs on my spending very well and just thought I'd been overdoing it.

So it was a bit like finding £2,416 down the back of the sofa, really.

― Mark C, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would ILE and the rest of the world like to thank me for dropping said money? I swear I've dropped >£100 in the last twelve months (Either that or pissed it away on tat. Same thing really). Perhaps I should start actually keeping it in my wallet.

I also live in hope that one day I'll find a big stack of cash that's got hidden underneath something if I tidy my room. Clinging to this hope is obviously all what is keeping me from tidying. I'm NOT LAZY after all, hurrah.

― Graham, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Found $50 on the floor of Amoeba Records in San Francisco one time. It was put to immediate use.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All I found in the pockets of my winter coat were used bus tickets.

― james, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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