It still burns the next day as a mixture of embarresment and anger sweeps over him.
Sitting in a coffee shop explaining the entire scenario to his girlfriend, he laughs on the outside but not on the inside. This is a skill he’s learned from being a professional musician. When playing live music, you’re tapping into your emotions to really feel what your fingers are doing. For instance, if he’s had a bad day, he’ll play great that night. The tricky part is when he’s done playing, and emotionally drained, he still has to mingle and talk to people and act like everything is okay. This skill comes in handy very often, as he’s never been accused of wearing his emotions on his sleeve.
Halfway through his funny/unfunny conversation about losing a hundred dollar bill he recieves a phone call.
“Hello”
“Forrestt? It’s Darryl. Guess what man, somebody called me and said they found your hundred and left it at the front desk of the Embassy Suites!”
“WHAT? That’s crazy?!”
“Yeah, they called me because they asked around and one of the waitresses remembered you talking about losing it. The chef is a good friend of mine and gave them my #.”
“Oh man, thanks.”
“You better go down there and get it.”
“Yeah, I’m going right now, Thanks Darryl.”
“Alright, I’ll see you later.”
“Bye.” He flips his phone shut.
The drive the hotel is an interesting one. He walks through the doors, nervous for some reason.
“Hello, I’m Forrestt, and I lost some money?”
“Ah,” The two girls at the counter both smile the widest smiles he’s seen at a hotel counter before.
“What’s your last name?”
“Williams”
“I have this for you. Some fellow named Chris found this and turned it in.”
“Amazing. You know, this really gives me faith in humanity. That’s a great world where someone turns in a hundred dollar bill.”
“Yeah, hold on to it this time, don’t imagine it’ll happen again.”
“Thank you!”
He tried as cooly as he could to put on his shades as he walked out the door, but he was too elated.
There was nothing cool about him at that moment.
March 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
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