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All My Children Discussion Group
This is a true story and I'm not kidding.
Lately I've been watching the reruns of The Andy Griffith Show on the TVLAND Channel. Then I went to the Goodwill Store looking for low fat diet cookbooks because I'm trying to lose weight. As I was looking through the cookbook section, I happened to find "Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook". So I bought the cookbook for 2 dollars. It looks brand new so it must have been sitting on somebody's shelf before it was donated.
Yesterday there was a show about Opie's fortune on TVLAND. Opie finds a wallet on the side of a dirt road with $50 cash in it and no identification. He learns that he can keep the money if nobody claims it in one week.
I was looking through Aunt Bee's Mayberry Cookbook and I decided to try some of the recipes in the cookbook. I've been trying to eat vegetarian lately plus fish so I decided to try Otis Campbell's Homemade Vegetable Soup, Houdini Zucchini, and Tuna Taylor Salad. I went to the H.E.B store to purchase the ingredients for these recipes.
As I was leaving the grocery store and going back to my car with my grocery cart, I saw a $20 dollar bill in the parking lot of H.E.B. It was just laying there in the parking lot and nobody was close by. I could not believe it. I picked up the $20 dollar bill and I felt like Opie from The Andy Griffith Show.
Coincidence? I think not.
Love your story. Finding $20 is the icing on the (pardon this expression) ''cake''. I'm glad you got Aunt Bee's cookbook and I bet you picture her as you're reading the recipes. I once found $20 too. I was in a store and there it was lying on the ground. No one was around so I picked it up and that was that. It definitely made my day although I did feel bad for whoever lost it.
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I've always liked Andy Griffith, too. It and The Rifleman are great shows about the love between a father and son.
Congratulations on your finds! Aunt Bee's Cookbook is quite the collectible.
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Lucky you! I found $5 once in the parking lot. My sister bought a chair at Goodwill and she took the cushions out to clean it and found a gold chain down in the chair. It was nice, not real expensive but it was real gold. Yea!
I love the old Andy Griffith reruns. I saw one the other day where Opie accidentally killed a bird with his BB gun, she had a nest with babies, so Andy told him it was his duty to take care of her babies, it was so sweet. Andy was a good father.
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