[chardog]

I love to snowboard and was living in Aspen four winters ago when I first started playing online poker. One morning while ordering my coffee at !Ink Coffee I happened to look down and see a $100 bill on the floor (only in Aspen right?). I started to bend over to pick it up but suddenly stopped myself.. it was April 1st. I took a closer look to see if there was fishing line attached, it was fake, etc.... Nope, it was real. I picked it up and gave it to the girl at the counter without much thought remarking "Someone dropped this". She said that she was pretty sure which customer would have dropped it and thanked me for being an honest person. My "read" on her was that she was going to return the money to that person. Even if she kept it for herself, I would have had no problem with it... she was working and I was going snowboarding, she "deserved" it more than me.

About a week later I was leaving my apartment to go snowboarding at Snowmass and happened upon a $20 bill on the sidewalk. No one was around and feeling that I had built up some karma from the previous $100 bill episode I pocketed it. Weird things started to happen to me for the next few days, nothing really memorable.. it was weird in the sense that the small battles in life that normally break even all started going against me (just missing the RFTA bus, stubbing my toe, forgetting to charge my iPod etc, etc). It all culminated with a really bad fall in the halfpipe that sent me to the emergency room. Luckily, nothing broken or internally bleeding just a badly bruised hip and leg.

While limping back to my apartment that night I yanked a $20 bill out of my money clip and dropped it on the sidewalk where I had found the previous one. I'm normally not a superstitious person and have no strong beliefs about karma and what not but on that day I think I did. Anywho... I've never told anyone about it until now... this thread just happened to make me think more about it more.