A five pound note on the pavement - poll
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View Poll Results: Would you pick up the five pound note or leave it and walk away?
Take it 477 94.83% Leave it 26 5.17%
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollAh, a monetarist!(Original post by Muscovite)
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollWow.(Original post by blueray)
If you do not see honor in taking money, then you are scum. -
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollI'd pick it up and in my head "Yassss"
The most I've ever found was £30 at first I though it was just a £20 and then bang! a nice wee tenner in there alsoLast edited by Left Hand Drive; 05-07-2012 at 20:49. -
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollI would take it.
I found a £5 note on the floor at work and gave it to my boss, expecting him to just put it in the till. After about an hour no one had come back to claim it so he let me keep it!
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollI will take it, but like all monies I find anywhere... I find a donation box for it and just leave it there. I once came across £180 on street, I think someone had dropped it after coming out of a bank, I donated all of it at 4 charity boxes.... strangely 2 days later I was at a casino where with £10 I came out with £1800.
Heh... like anything I find on the street, I generally don't keep money I win from gambling either... that was quite hard to get rid off as I had trouble finding charity boxes LOL. -
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollI made around £15/night when that Fast and Furious was out last year. Men keep all of their change in their backpockets and everything falls out, it's great! They do leave the cinema in a ****ing tip though...(Original post by tehforum)
What's the most you've ever found? -
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollLeave it.
Picking up money from the floor in public is embarrassing.
Plus, Daddy gives me more than enough money that I need so I don't need to pick it up. That's something that a poor person or a state school child would do, like someone who shops in that god awful Primark thing.
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - poll"See a penny, pick it up, then all day you'll have good luck"
That's what my mum always used to say to me when I was little and there was a penny on the floor. If a penny is good luck imagine how much good luck a fiver would bring! (Although finding it is the lucky bit I guess) -
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollI don't think picking up £5 would make you 500x luckier that day, than not picking anything up.(Original post by littleone271)
"See a penny, pick it up, then all day you'll have good luck"
That's what my mum always used to say to me when I was little and there was a penny on the floor. If a penny is good luck imagine how much good luck a fiver would bring! (Although finding it is the lucky bit I guess)
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollWhere I used to work we used to use any money we found (if unclaimed) to buy sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks etc. for the staff room (there were only about 8 of us).(Original post by PatrickD)
I would take it.
I found a £5 note on the floor at work and gave it to my boss, expecting him to just put it in the till. After about an hour no one had come back to claim it so he let me keep it!
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollIt's not a ridiculous claim. It's an optimistic theory.(Original post by Rybee)
I don't think picking up £5 would make you 500x luckier that day, than not picking anything up.
Have you got any scientific information to back up your ridiculous claim?
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Re: A five pound note on the pavement - pollWhat flavour are these pies you talk of?(Original post by littleone271)
It's not a ridiculous claim. It's an optimistic theory.
You're talking to a girl who salutes magpies.
