You’re pacing back and forth outside your favorite restaurant and talking on your cell phone as you wait for your friend Terry, who’s meeting you for lunch. Terry shows up, reaches down to the sidewalk and comes up holding a $50 bill.
“Is this yours?” he asks.
You remember getting change for 100 that morning and, still finishing up your phone conversation, you check your wallet. No 50. “Yeah, that must be mine,” you say, thanking Terry as you take the bill and put it in your wallet.
After lunch, you go to your car, reach in your pocket for your keys, and come out with a $50 bill. You recheck your wallet—another $50 bill. You realize that you didn’t drop the 50, you merely misplaced it. The one Terry picked up off the ground ...
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