Monday – Nix handed over 3 pennies she’d found at the bottom of her old handbag when she was transferring stuff to a new one.
Tuesday afternoon, I came back from lunch to find a huge mound of assorted coins on my desk – a whole 66p’s worth! As far as I could remember, I hadn’t lent anybody any money, bought anyone anything or bet anyone 66p that I could do something.
I fired off an ‘all staff’ email to get to the bottom of it, but was met with a stony silence. You know what’s happened don’t you? The mystery benefactor has returned…
Wednesday night (last night), I was coming out of Bank tube station en route to the O2 arena to see the Spice Girls (brilliant by the way, but Geri and Mel B still hate each other), when a man in front of me spilt the entire contents of his wallet all over the stairs. Bingo!
I stopped to help, and he said something about needing all the money to pay for his train fare. As I helped him look, the devil in me started thinking of all the coins he’d inevitably miss, and I must confess I did look around to see if there were any high-denomination coins he hadn’t spotted. Annoyingly, the much more dominant goody-two-shoes in me found 1p, and immediately handed it to him.
He seemed disappointed that all I’d retrieved was a penny, and it took several seconds of me holding it out to him before he cracked and took it. He didn’t even want it!
Week Twenty-nine
How much found: 69p
Total found so far: £13.92
How it could now be spent: a pot of Protexin Pro digestive supplement for all large animals.
Hate your colleagues as much as Geri and Mel B do? Time to look for a new job.
