Free Money

This afternoon, my partner Gina suggested we give away an unused laptop rucksack on Freecycle.

“I have my own version of Freecycle” I mused.

We live on a busy little one way system in Biggleswade, so I put the bag in front of our house with a big sign on it saying FREE.

Several hours passed and I really expected the bag to have gone, but no!

So I decided to add incentive for people to stop, by adding another sign, which said FREE MONEY.

Curious to see what would happen, I watched in wonder as car after car drove by.

People even walked past without noticing my sign. They didn’t even look!

Eventually a passing car screeched to a halt, reversed and looked.

After what seemed an age, the driver made a decision. To drive on!

It has to make me wonder.

Is the credit crunch real?

Or is it a belief system?

See you on the other side of the looking glass,

Mark Ty-Wharton.