commentary+essay

**It's just a normal day at school. I walk down the hallway and spot a dollar laying on the floor. I think, ooh, money! My hands grab the lost cash. Am I wrong? It isn't my money. How is it fair that I can take something that's not mine? It's fair because after someone drops money, they are not responsible for it anymore.

When I see money, it is my natural instinct to take. At school, if someone opens their wallet in front of everyone, lots of people go to the wallet carrier and say, "give me a dollar." In the middle of a quiet class, someone drops some coins. That clacking noise makes people almost leap to grab someone elses fortune. I seen this in gym class two weeks ago. A student drops his money and then four girls run to grab a quarter or two. I also live in America, where coins are used to purchase candy, yogurt, and other tasty treats. When there's a coin, you literally see a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos at lunchtime. Here in America, it is a recession. Every penny counts. Money is a great attraction to the eye.

I'm not the only one who feels this way. In the year 2008, the Barbara Humphrey family collected over $1,000 by picking up coins from the street. The cash caught there eyes. This shows that people get rich because of what lies on the ground. It was their natural instinct. Why go against what your instnct tells you?

I feel that there is nothing wrong with picking up money from the street because there are many irresponsible people that carry lots of money on them. These irresponsible people are the people that drops their coins on the street or sidewalk. I misplace things like pencils, pens, erasers, notebooks, and folders everyday. Yesterday, I lost three pencils and my homework folder, which I found by the end of the day. I know if I was carrying lots of money, I would lose it. That's a reason why I don't carry money everywhere. I see people dropping there celephones everyday. If that was money in their hands or pockets being dropped it would be stolen. So is it wrong to take what irrespnsible people drop?

That brings me to another reason why it's not wrong to pick up others people money. People are asking for trouble when they bring lots of money. When people bring alot of cash and coins, there is a big possiblity that it could get lost or stolen. One time I brought a lot of money on a skating field trip. I told my friend how much money I had. That whole trip, he bugged me about buying something for him. I, in a way, made my field trip not enjoyable because I told my friend about. so carrying lots of money can be stolen, lost, or begged for. Don't do it. You might drop some and people would pick it up, for sure.

A huge reason why I agree with picking up money from the ground is because I'm broke. I need money and I believe every penny counts. I pick up money, and I'm a penny richer. I think I deserve the extra coins on the ground.

A lot of people think finding money on the ground is goodluck, hints the name goodluck coins. On movies and in real life, people find money on the ground, pick it up, and think they are lucky. On the movie Just My Luck, a young man with terrible luck finds a dollar in the trash and thinks that he is lucky, until he finds out a very stinky secret about he dollar bill. All over the world, finding coins on the ground is goodluck. Wouldn't you want people to be happy? Finding coins will.

When there's money or anything laying on the ground, it is an object nobody comes back to get. Sometimes they don't no it's gone. Sometimes it's pure laziness. Yesterday I saw a student drop their pink eraser top. She said, "my eraser top fell," so she knew she dropped it. But she never went to pick it up, because she didn't to reach down to pick up what she owned. It is the same for money. Why would it be wrong if people are too lazy to pick it up anyway.

There are always some coins lying on the ground because of laziness or mistake. The places you really see a lot of coins are stores, parking lots, around vending machines, carwash, rest stops, fast food drive up windows, self paying parking spots. bars, at home, at the beach, at parks, copy machines, telephones, sidewalks, gutters, intersections, trains stations, and anywhere crows gather. Nobody is going back to gather what they dropped in a park or a very populated area, because there is a huge chance you are not going to seek what was taken away from you by dropping. You're not going back for a few coins at a hectic concert, or paying to enter a bar to find your lost $0.25. So what's the harm in retrieving money off the street when the owner isn't going to pick it up?

Many people might say, "you should return that money you found to the rightful owner." That is true. But sometimes you don't know who the rightful owner is. The rightful owner might not go looking for the money. If I try to find the owner, someone could lie to say that the money I found was their money. I would do that so I can get free cash.

Free cash, everyone loves free cash. No one's going back to get it and it is absolutely free. It's good luck. It is a natural instinct. There are many reasons why somebody would pick up money that doesn't belong to them. Why would you just pass up the chance of free money? So the next time you see a quater on the ground, pick it up. And if you don't, I will.**