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RayB:
I would leave the quarter.
And belts are $40 too dude.

GET OFF YOUR LAWN!  errr...

SavannahLion:
I've read somewhere that if Bill Gates dropped a $100 bill, it wouldn't be worth his time to pick it up.

When I read that, I followed Gates around for a week. Then I was arrested on stalking charges  ???

In any case, I would pick the quarter up. Even pennies. That's just me, my father was a penny pincher, but he wasn't good enough to squeeze more than a nickel out of them. In the garage, I have one of those water bottles filled with coinage from the last ten years. Like a dumbshit, it didn't occur to me how heavy the thing would be to move, so I have no idea what to do with it. I started a new jar though, so in another ten years I'll have a another unmovable water bottle in the garage.  :P

tophatne1:
Would you believe my brother goes though his pockets at the end of the day and takes all the pennies out of his change and throws them straight into the garbage. No joke. He has for years. We're talking sometimes 10-20 cents because he only deals with cash when he's buying things. That to me is a lot worse than not picking them up.
Ironically, he just filed bankruptcy in June. :dizzy:

In the 80's I had a friend who was one of those spoiled kids that got at least a $20 bill every time he left the house. He acted like change wasn't real money. (Including the silver coins and quarters!) If money wasn't paper he had no use for it. He would just throw his change around his room, in his locker, wherever. I of course never had any money, so to see him with $100's in quarters laying everywhere was the craziest thing.

Every so often some of the change ended up in my overnight bag. ;D The money usually went straight into the Centipede at the pizza place near my house or into cases of M.U.S.C.L.E figures.

I did confess this to him a few years ago and he laughed. He told me "that's funny as hell! I never knew cause I didn't care about change!" Given his reaction I'd say my conscience is clean now.


Apollo:
I'd leave the quarter lying there, I can't spend your weird foreign currency in my country.
SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: tophatne1 on September 03, 2007, 11:07:02 pm ---In the 80's I had a friend who was one of those spoiled kids that got at least a $20 bill every time he left the house. He acted like change wasn't real money. (Including the silver coins and quarters!) If money wasn't paper he had no use for it. He would just throw his change around his room, in his locker, wherever. I of course never had any money, so to see him with $100's in quarters laying everywhere was the craziest thing.
--- End quote ---

God, that drove me ape ---Cleveland steamer---. I had a friend who was like that. He was given $20 just to take the trash out one day. That was on top of his $100 a week allowance. His father was this fat lazy ass who couldn't be bothered to do the work. The kid would turn around and spend at least half that on candy.

By the time we both turned 17, he was such an ---uvula---. It was impossible to even attempt to hang out with him unless you could match him dollar for dollar on his spending habits. He was eventually arrested for stealing money from his father's work (which his father was also arrested for). He didn't just steal a bundle of bills, he stole whole ---smurfing--- bags of money. On slow days, he would forge checks. He would steal blank company checks then attempt to cash them at the company bank. Enough that it bought him a brand new 4x4 with enough bling to cause blindness.

Unlike your friend, I've never really talked to him since.
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