Finding Unintentional Snowflakes

Even though I’m working from home today, I still like to get “dressed” so I feel a little more in the mood. I’m not talking full work gear, but a pair of jeans and a shirt/sweater, you know? But I also wanted to take advantage of the fact that I’m home today by also doing some laundry at some point. The comfy jeans I wanted to wear today are in the laundry basket, so they were out of the running. I didn’t feel like wearing my other jeans, so I looked over and saw the “to donate” pile of clothes. There were a few pairs of jeans in there that I was going to donate, but just never got around to it. I pulled them out, put them on and finished getting dressed.

A few minutes ago I realized there was something in the back pocket, and figuring it was just an old shopping list or bus transfer, I reached in and immediately reached over to the waste basket to toss it out. Until I realized that it was purple paper. For you non-Canadians out there, purple paper could mean several things, but given the texture and colour, I thought it might have been some money…sure enough, it was a $10 bill! A crumpled up, who only knows how long it’s been in that back pocket kind of $10 bill! So I uncrumpled it and attempted to iron it out a bit with my hands. I’ll be depositing that sucker into one of my lines of credit as soon as I walk past the next bank machine.

Now this means I’m going to check ALL my pants pockets, just to be sure I’m not hiding any other snowflaking money.