Once a month I have to talk to my parents' property manager to pick up the rental checks for the properties they own. I've been so busy with work lately that I did not store the checks I got from her for October. Instead, I have kept them in my bookbag, the one I take with me everywhere.
I finally got around to depositing it at the bank Monday. I headed home from work beforehand to sort through exactly how much money in cash I've been carrying with me for about a week, and the amount floored me: $5,750! Shit, I was hauling that much money around me?! Man, I would've been so fucked if I somehow left it out in public somewhere! And if someone knew I as lugging around almost six grand, they would've mugged me!
I pulled off a similar handle today. I had to pay this contractor for work on a couple of my parents' houses. I was going to meet him today, so yesterday I put into my bag two separate envelopes my folks prepared for me when the contractor finished both jobs. One was for three grand, the other a grand. So at my desk today was four-thousand dollars in cash, just waiting to be stolen by someone if they knew and were so bold.
Maybe I should be a little more careful with money.
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