"Head...Shoulders...Knees and...SOCKS!"

As Spouse was checking out our purchases at the self-check station at the grocery store, I noticed $20 sitting in the hopper where you receive the bills you get as change or your cash-back.  I thought about it for about 2 seconds (hmm...$20.  It's just $20.  That's our regular takeout.  That's a bunch of slurpees.  That's some Starbucks.)  But I remembered the time that in that same store I made it all the way back to my car without grabbing my cash back, went back into the store to the manager, and someone had turned it in.  So I grabbed the money, and was surprised that there were two bills.  Forty bucks - well that now just upped the anty.  But being a good citizen, I turned it in to the self-check monitors.  They were so surprised and told me what a good person I was, and how honest I was, but deep down inside - $40 would have been nice.

Spouse was impressed what a good example I was.  I asked him what he would have done if when he grabbed his cash back and counted it to find an extra $40, what he would have done.  He said he probably would have thought it to be the store's error and kept the money.  I know that I did the right thing and that I set a good example for Child.  But yeah, that money would have been a nice bonus.