THEY'RE NOT SO AMAZING, JUST HONEST.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
CANOGA PARK - OK, here's the setup. You're walking down the produce aisle in your local supermarket and see a bag of lettuce lettuce, annual garden plant (Lactuca sativa and varieties) of the family Asteraceae (aster family), probably native to the East Indies or Asia Minor, possibly as a derivative of the widespread weed called wild lettuce (L. scariola). L. lying on the floor. Being the tidy type, you bend down to pick it up when you notice some more lettuce next to it. The spending kind - $81 in cash folded up in a wad. What do you do? Stick the cash in your pocket and figure finders keepers
Finders, keepers is the doctrine that says when something is unowned or abandoned, whoever finds it can claim it (from an old Scottish saying , losers weepers? Do you take a quick look around the aisle to make sure the guy from Candid Camera candid camera n. A small, easily operated camera with a fast lens for taking unposed or informal photographs. Noun 1. candid camera - a miniature camera with a fast lens isn't standing a few feet away feeling the avocados? Or do you walk it over to the store manager and turn the cash in? InSoon Lee of West Hills figures most people would take the money and run, which is why when he went back to Ralphs supermarket at Shoup Avenue and Sherman Way a couple of days after he lost the cash while shopping with his wife, Tokiko, this is what he said to the store manager. ``Can I ask you a dumb question? Did anybody turn in some found cash?'' As a matter of fact, someone had. The dumb question wasn't so dumb after all. ``A few other people were standing there and they couldn't believe it,'' Lee said Wednesday. ``One of the checkers checkers, game for two players, known in England as draughts. It is played on a square board, divided into 64 alternately colored—usually red and black or white and black—square spaces, identical with a chessboard. said, 'You really mean someone returned $80 in cash?' '' Glasses, handbags, jewelry jewelry, personal adornments worn for ornament or utility, to show rank or wealth, or to follow superstitious custom or fashion. The most universal forms of jewelry are the necklace, bracelet, ring, pin, and earring. , sure. But none of the employees I talked to at Ralphs on Wednesday could remember the last time someone had turned in cold, hard cash. The woman who found Lee's money had left her name and telephone number just in case no one claimed the money - hey, she was honest, not a dummy Sham; make-believe; pretended; imitation. Person who serves in place of another, or who serves until the proper person is named or available to take his place (e.g., dummy corporate directors; dummy owners of real estate). - so Lee gave her a call the next day to thank her. ``I told her I would like to come by her house with a gift and thank you in person,'' he said. ``I was going to give her half the money, $40.50 because I thought I should share it with her.'' But the woman told Lee she didn't want any of his money. If he wanted to do something, give the money to someone else who really needed it, or do a good deed for someone. ``I thanked her again, and told her that she made me remember there were still many good and honest people in the world,'' Lee said. Then, he went out and found a homeless woman - feeling pretty good inside as he watched her jaw drop when he handed her $40.50, Lee said. Her name is Nancy and she is a retired educator living in Canoga Park. She found Lee's lettuce. She didn't want me using her last name because she doesn't want or need the notoriety NOTORIETY, evidence. That which is generally known. 2. This notoriety is of fact or of law. In general, the notoriety of a fact is not sufficient to found a judgment or to rely on its truth; 1 Ohio Rep. , she said. A couple of months ago she was driving down Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. , just about ready to get on the freeway when a man signaled her to pull over. ``I pulled over, then thought what if this guy is a carjacker or something,'' she said Wednesday. ``But he turned out to be just a nice man who wanted to warn me that a piece of rubber was hanging off one of my tires. ``The tire was coming apart, and if I had gotten on that freeway going fast it probably would have exploded ex·plode v. ex·plod·ed, ex·plod·ing, ex·plodes v.intr. 1. To release mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy by the sudden production of gases in a confined space: , and I could have lost control of my car and caused an accident. ``He very well (may have) saved my life by taking the time to signal me over to stop,'' she said. She tells this story, Nancy says, not because it was on her mind when she found Lee's lettuce on the produce aisle floor, but because she thinks there are more good, honest types out there than most people think. We just don't read or hear about them very often, that's all, she says. Too many hot negative stories to go around for the media to find room for the little, positive ones, Nancy thinks. ``When I walked up to the people in that store and told them I had found this money and wanted to turn it in, they all had the same look on their faces,'' Nancy said. ``A look of amazement. ``But, see, I don't think what I did was anything amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. or special. It was somebody else's money, not mine. ``Of course, I have to admit that for just a second there the thought did cross my mind,'' she laughed. ``Where's the Candid Camera?'' |
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