It is amazing how often a TAGS episode will bring back some long ago memories from days gone by. Episode 136 "Opie's Fortune," where Opie finds Parnell Rigsby's purse containing $50, certainly brought memories back to me. When I was growing up in the late '50's I had a secret source of income. We lived in a small town and about two blocks from our house was our village auditorium. It served as both our school gymnasium as well as a dance hall on Saturday nights. Every Saturday night for years, wedding dances were held in this building, so very early every Sunday morning I would get up and walk back and forth in the parking lot of that dance hall. I was searching for money that people dropped when reaching into their pockets for their car keys after the dance. I was never disappointed in that every Sunday morning I was able to find various amounts of change lying on the ground. But one Sunday morning I found a torn and dirty ten dollar bill. You can imagine how excited I was. The only problem was that none of the stores would accept it because so much of it had been torn off. So I took it to the bank and they sent it somewhere to see if it could be replaced. I had almost forgotten about it until one day weeks later the bank called and told me they had a brand new ten dollar bill for me. I never revealed my Sunday morning sunrise adventures to anyone and I continued my Sunday morning searches well into my high school years.
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