There's hardly anybody in here that I'd call a legit 'friend', I really don't see myself entertaining a Lush-love anytime soon.
Not really, no.
I love regular stilettos/platforms, but stripper heels are by definition shoes with a platform of 6+ inches; to me that just looks overdone, silly and cheap.
All things in moderation...
What a whole lot of bull, haha.
This is just a succession of senseless might-as-wells. I lost $20, might as well go back to the few places I've been today. I was in that one specific shop earlier, might as well ask the clerks if they saw my money. The clerks are excessively accommodating and have way too much time on their hands, might as well sit with them and watch what the security camera filmed during the last few hours. The clerks recognize the woman who took the bill, might as well call the police. Police officers gladly responded and have absolutely nothing better to do than investigating a mundane $20, might as well bring the woman in for questioning. The woman admitted to taking the money, might as well charge her with a criminal record.
The end result is that at least 3 persons took at least 2 hours of their time to investigate a silly $20 bill, a good chunk of that time being financed by taxpayers' money. And a woman got a criminal record for doing what every sensible human being would have done, including the hypocritical clerks of that store themselves.
In my view, dropped money stops being your money the moment it exits your pocket (unless others nearby see it happening, obviously). The person who lost the $20 might have dropped it in an obscure/irretrievable place, and he/she would have had no way to ever backtrack it (in the middle of a windy public place or right over a manhole, as examples). Why anyone would expect the entire world to investigate to who an anonymous dollar bill belonged to is way beyond me. Just be mindful when handling money and you won't have any issues; I don't recall ever losing any sum of money myself.
A similar situation happened to me a few years ago in college: I spotted a $20 bill in a crowded cafeteria, right between two large tables where 12+ students were sitting (at each table). Sure, part of me wanted to do the charitable thing and find out who was the rightful owner of that money, but how exactly do you achieve that in such a crowded place? And how do you verify any claims made? Any rapacious idiot could easily have claimed the money as his/her own. Tenderly asking a throng of spendthrift students if they lost $20 wouldn't have been the virtuous thing to do; it would have been the dumb and naive thing to do.
Finders keepers: you dropped it, you lost it.
I could provide an insightful and emotional answer to that, but realistically I'd race home to get rid of the compromising stuff that's in my sexual cache and on my hard-drive. Or alternatively, I'd call my girlfriend to take care of that so that my parents wouldn't stumble across all these things themselves after my death.
I've only blocked one guy in my time here, back when it only affected private messages.