ondarvr
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This morning I was doing some yard work (3 acres lots of fruit and other trees) and recruited my wife to help me stack all the brush for burning. She had been out trimming her trees and left the branches on the ground, so I figured she could help clean up the mess.
I was having a little trouble keeping the fire going so I went over to the recycle bin to get some paper. I grabbed a stack of newspaper with some other stuff mixed in and just as I lifted them out of the bin some papers fell on the ground, my hands were full so didn't stop to pick them up right then. About 15 minutes later I went back to pick up the stuff on the ground and found an unopened envelope with a check in it from the state.
About tens years ago someone broke into my shop and made off with about $10,000 worth of tools, boat motor, fishing gear, 2 motor cycles, sails to a small boat? (not sure what they thought these were), etc. They busted the guy and I got the 2 bikes back, but they were painted entirely black and beat to death. Since that time we've been receiving a check almost every month for about $49.00 as restitution. My wife has always deposited these checks in her account.
This check was in the same envelope so I thought it was another $49.00, It was actually for $917.00 and was for the same restitution. My wife had thrown it out with the junk mail.
I called my wife over and she quickly snatched the check from my fingers and stashed it in the house with a big grin on her face. When I said I should get some of it, she just laughed and said no chance.
She thinks this is a stupid website and says she can't imagine what low life?s everyone here must be to just talk boats. Did I say she doesn't ever go out on boats either (Please don't let this influence your opinion on who should get the money though).
How do you think this money should be split?
Thanks
I was having a little trouble keeping the fire going so I went over to the recycle bin to get some paper. I grabbed a stack of newspaper with some other stuff mixed in and just as I lifted them out of the bin some papers fell on the ground, my hands were full so didn't stop to pick them up right then. About 15 minutes later I went back to pick up the stuff on the ground and found an unopened envelope with a check in it from the state.
About tens years ago someone broke into my shop and made off with about $10,000 worth of tools, boat motor, fishing gear, 2 motor cycles, sails to a small boat? (not sure what they thought these were), etc. They busted the guy and I got the 2 bikes back, but they were painted entirely black and beat to death. Since that time we've been receiving a check almost every month for about $49.00 as restitution. My wife has always deposited these checks in her account.
This check was in the same envelope so I thought it was another $49.00, It was actually for $917.00 and was for the same restitution. My wife had thrown it out with the junk mail.
I called my wife over and she quickly snatched the check from my fingers and stashed it in the house with a big grin on her face. When I said I should get some of it, she just laughed and said no chance.
She thinks this is a stupid website and says she can't imagine what low life?s everyone here must be to just talk boats. Did I say she doesn't ever go out on boats either (Please don't let this influence your opinion on who should get the money though).
How do you think this money should be split?
Thanks
But it doesn't sound as if any of her things were stolen were they? And the items were man cave things that that any testosterone driven man would just haft to replace. I think you should actually see the most of it. 
