{"id":3337,"date":"2018-02-22T16:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:50:50","slug":"the-almighty-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2018\/02\/22\/the-almighty-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Almighty Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s no secret that many people are motivated by the almighty dollar.\u00a0 It can sometimes drive them to distraction, make their head spin, and keep them up at night.\u00a0 Me too.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not talking about THAT almighty dollar.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about the dollar I found in the parking lot of the mall during the Christmas return season.<\/p>\n

Not kidding you\u2026it seemed innocent enough on an incredibly bitter cold day hustling back to my car to just scoop down on the run and snatch that crumbled up dollar bill and throw it in my purse.\u00a0 I was the only one in the parking lot because I am that kind of crazy when I need to just get something done.\u00a0 Who cares if it\u2019s 2 degrees?\u00a0 I know 2 degrees is like summer in some parts of the world, frankly I don\u2019t know why people live in those parts, but here it\u2019s a bit unusual. Anyway I wanted my return out of my house because I had already moved it from one spot to the other fifty times. As I slammed the car door against the cold and started up the engine, heated seats, heated steering wheel\u00a0 (I know I should stop my bitching right?)\u00a0 I looked around to see if anyone was in the parking lot and it was practically deserted except for one of the small buses that usually come and go.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m out of there.\u00a0 But over the next couple of weeks I can\u2019t stop thinking about this crumpled up dollar bill.\u00a0 It was crumpled up so perfectly like someone had been clutching it.\u00a0 Or perhaps it was stuffed in a pocket and when they pulled out their glove it fell without them even knowing it. Maybe it belonged to a child.\u00a0 Or one of the many patrons that came to the friendly mall on the small bus.\u00a0 Every time I went in for my keys my finger would brush up against this little dollar bill.\u00a0 The scenarios in my head began to drive me to distraction, make my head spin and keep me up at night.\u00a0 I know what you\u2019re thinking, it\u2019s completely irrational I agree.\u00a0 There\u2019s no way one can walk back in the mall and say did anyone lose a dollar bill?\u00a0 It\u2019s not like a bunch of keys for God sake\u2026<\/p>\n

So a few weeks go by and I start to forget about it, I never put it in my wallet it just found its way deeper into my bag.\u00a0 Then one day I\u2019m coming out of the grocery store and there are two boys collecting (begging) for the Northern Highlands baseball team.\u00a0 I\u2019m so embarrassed that I don\u2019t have any cash, well only twenties from the ATM (love the team, not THAT much) so I apologize and move along to my car.\u00a0 Half way there I remember the crumbled dollar bill\u2026you best believe I ran it back to the boys and slept like a baby that night. Whew paid forward.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no secret that many people are motivated by the almighty dollar.\u00a0 It can sometimes drive them to distraction, make their head spin, and keep them up at night.\u00a0 Me too.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not talking about THAT almighty dollar.\u00a0 I\u2019m … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Almighty Dollar","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[869,867,866,868,870,865],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pause-points","tag-cant-make-this-up","tag-charity","tag-lost-and-found","tag-ordinary-moments","tag-pay-it-forward","tag-the-almighty-dollar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27hQ5-RP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}