My old boss called me today. We will be discussing me going back to work on Monday. I am excited after being unemployed since January. I am sad though that I will have to give up being able to do whatever I want during the day. Allyson will do better getting back into a Daycare/Preschool environment and making new friends.
Because I will be spending next week picking a daycare and getting things in order to go back to work I wanted to take Allyson out and do something. We went to the indoor swimming pool and over to the closest Elementary school to kick around the soccer ball and play on the toys.
A normal evening there would be hardly anyone there but people started showing up so I asked one of the young girls what was up. The elementary school talent show was tonight. Free admission. I love free. We stayed, we watched. Allyson loved it. I don't know any of the parents and I'm quite shy around people so Allyson and I kept to ourselves not talking with anyone else.
While we were watching one of the acts Allyson saw people with water bottles and asked for one. I told her I didn't know if I had any money for it. I pulled my wallet out of my coat pocket and started fumbling through. In the main money fold I found a $20 and in my credit card flap I found a $5. Both of which I new I had, niether of which would be accepted in the Dasani vending machine. I started looking in other areas and in the front zipper pocket of my wallet I spotted a bill.
My look of shock made my jaw sore from dropping so low when I realized it was a $100 bill. I exclaimed a little to loud "Oh My God!" When I started opening it and found three $50's and a single folded with the $100. I was shocked and excited as I quietly tucked it back into my wallet thinking all the things I spend the money on and the one thing that I should put it towards..Bills. A great find to say the least, but the Dasani waters were $1.25 so I was still out of luck not having a single coin on me.
It didn't dawn on me until I was telling the story to my mother and sister after the elementary school talent show that those parents seated around me most likely witnessed the entire event. Imagine their surprise to see a stranger they've never met open their wallet during one of the talent acts, pull out some large bills, vocally exclaim a little too loud "Oh My God" while thumbing through and counting the money, then quietly tuck it back into the wallet, walk away for a bit and come back empty handed not to be heard from for the rest of the night.
I just want to personally thank Dasani water. Not just for a great tasting water, or the convienent placement of vending machines in public schools, but for being the reason I found the $251, had it not been for you, Dasani bottled drinking water, this great event may not have happened for months to come.
