Every little helps

Today, I was faced with a moral dilemma. It's a dilemma that everyone will have faced in their own ways and to varying degrees. Okay, here goes. Today I was making tuna pasta salad. I needed tomatoes. I grabbed a £2 coin; ran to tesco express; grabbed a box (or whatever) of tomatoes; paced to the self check-out (there was no one around) and saw a load of coins in the change bit. This wasn't my change, but it did have pounds in it. I immediately checked the notes bit: empty. I looked over my shoulder and considered telling the till lady...no till lady. I continued my transaction, scanning through my vat of tomatoes as though I hadn't seen the change and then, after putting in my own £2 coin, I pocketed all the change and ran home. I took in £2, bought a wagon-load of tomatoes, and walked out with £4.82.

Here is the horrible truth. This may divide people. But I was never going to hand that money in. Never. As soon as that busy single mum with her shopping or chav with his dole money or old dear with her pension or that millionaire with his fists full of cash or whoever it was made their mistake, I was the opportunistic scavenger with one thing on my mind. Cheers.

Every little helps.