A great example today of why we shouldn’t base our judgements on appearances.
A Perth family from the suburb of Shelley ignored a plain, brown paper bag for several days. It sat on their front lawn, ignored by the wife who first spotted it and her husband who also thought nothing of it.
When the son decided to peek inside he found the bag contained $10 000.
News.com.au reported the find in their story Family finds $10 000 cash on front lawn. The police are now trying to find the owner of the cash.
The man who found the money took it to Cannington police station yesterday, a police spokeswoman said.
He told officers his wife spotted the bag a few days ago on the front lawn of their home at Shelley, in Perth’s south, but they thought nothing of it until their son looked inside.
I wonder how many times we ignore those things that seem plain and ordinary and miss out on something valuable.
Too often I would say Rodney.
2 sayings come to mind when I think of this
1) You can’t judge a book by it’s cover
2) Good things come in small packages
Right, Tim. I guess we also need to remember that sometimes a book is as bad as its cover and sometimes a brown paper bag only contains rubbish but we do need to look beyond the immediate appearances to find out.