{"id":2442,"date":"2021-04-02T00:01:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T04:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T21:37:29","slug":"b-whats-in-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"B – What’s in the bag?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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B – What\u2019s in the Bag?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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If there is one thing I hate doing, it\u2019s laundry. If I owned a washer and dryer, it might be easier to get my laundry done, but I don\u2019t. So every week or so I fill up a bag with laundry and trudge on down to the laundromat. It\u2019s so boring. I have better things to do.\u00a0 Most of the time I just start my laundry and leave. At some point, I come back, and if I\u2019m lucky and late some other customer got pissed off enough that I wasn\u2019t there and has taken my laundry out for me and dumped it on a table. The same thing goes for the dryer. I mean, who wants to wait in a laundromat for over 2 hours. Not me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Things changed yesterday. I did my usual trip, brought my bag of laundry, threw the clothes in the machine, and left. I got delayed at the bar I frequent, so didn\u2019t return until 3 hours later. When I got there, there was no one in the place. My wet clothes which should have been either in a washing machine or thrown out on one of the tables were nowhere to be seen. However, I did notice my laundry bag in a corner, tucked in behind one of the dryers. I checked the bag and it was mine; no one else would put their laundry in a tie-dyed bag with a sign on it that said, \u201cIf found, please wash or burn\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Someone must have not only unloaded my clothes but then dried them, folded them neatly, and even wrapped them in separate packages of parcel paper. Not wanting to appear ungrateful, I wrote a thank you note and signed it with my first name. No need to give more information out than necessary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The bag seemed a lot heavier than I thought it would be. It must have been due to the excess wrapping paper. When I got home I just threw the bag on a chair next to my bed and didn\u2019t give it another thought until this morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I dumped all of the packages onto my bed. The strange thing about it was that all the packages were pretty much the same size. I hadn\u2019t noticed that yesterday. I was beginning to get suspicious. I carefully unwrapped one of the top parcels and found it was a pair of my pants and t-shirt. However, to my surprise, the package underneath it did not contain any of my clothes. It contained a stack of $100 bills. In fact, 500 hundred of them. As I moved on to open other packages they pretty much all contained large stacks of money. When I was done, I had unpackaged, two shirts, one pair of pants, 6 pairs of socks, and $500,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t sure what to do next. Should I go back to the laundromat and return the bag with the money? Should I go back to the laundromat and try to retrieve the note I left and then keep the money? Should I report what I had found to the police?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026<\/b> to be continued in \u201cD – Decision to be made.\u201d<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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