Fast-food worker returns $185,000 check

[dinoman]

NORWICH, Conn. - Reggie Damone just wanted to jot down a phone number when he picked up what he thought was litter on a sidewalk this week. But what he found was an envelope containing a $185,000 check.

Damone, who receives food stamps and works at McDonald's, said he didn't think twice about trying to cash it. Instead, the 47-year-old took a bus Monday from his Jewett City home to a bank and returned the check to the niece of the landlord to whom the check was written.

She thanked Damone with a $50 bill.

Damone said that although he knew $185,000 could pay his rent and other bills for a long time, he was never tempted to try to cash it and splurge.

He says he remembered his mother's words: If you take something, you lose three times that amount — and if you do something good, something good comes back to you.
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What jumped out at me first was the $185,000 check to a landlord - that's some expensive rent!

[Sk8r]

On the practical side, which he may or may not have understood, he saved himself a lot of grief: the ramifications of trying to cash that sucker wouldn't be good.
On the other side, 50.00 is not enough for the grief he saved that woman.
On the third side, if I were an employer with a job vacancy that needed an honest man, I'd track that guy down.
And this is a man who knows where is own center is, in the Eastern way of looking at things, and doesn't go off-balance.

[der_wille_zur_macht]

My center is my belly button!

[Sk8r]

contemplating navel...

[der_wille_zur_macht]

I'm more of an air force guy myself.

[amcarrig]

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Really though, I always wanted to be. . . . a lumberjack!

[amcarrig]

Whereas I have always wanted to be a chartered accountant

[der_wille_zur_macht]

No! No! No! You don't understand. I've been a chartered accountant for the last twenty years. I want a new job. Something exciting that will let me live!

[amcarrig]

Lion tamer then?

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Well yes. Yes. Of course, it's a bit of a jump isn't it? I mean, er, chartered accountancy to lion taming in one go. You don't think it might be better if you worked your way toward lion taming, say, via banking..

[amcarrig]

No. I don't want to wait. At nine o'clock tomorrow I want to be in there, taming

[RandalB]

Originally posted by der_wille_zur_macht
Really though, I always wanted to be. . . . a lumberjack!

'Cause you're OK?


Just wondering...

RandalB

[spoiledcats]

Originally posted by amcarrig
No. I don't want to wait. At nine o'clock tomorrow I want to be in there, taming

You could practice taming in the lounge. No, nevermind, lions are probably easier.