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If you've ever lost a wallet, then you're familiar with the heart-dropping, sickening realization that your money, ID, credit cards, and maybe that punch card for a free car wash will probably be gone to you forever.
Sometimes you get lucky, though. Sometimes a good samaritan is kind enough to find your wallet and then send it back to you in the mail, or turn it in at the lost and found area of wherever you left it.
And sometimes that samaritan pulls through...an entire 14 years later. Which is exactly what happened to Tim Burrows.
A gentleman by the name of Giles started hitting up all the Tim Burrows he could find online in the hopes of locating the man's wallet he and his friends picked up in 2003.
Been contacted by a man who found my wallet at Reading 2003, took £10 out to buy cider and held an annual drinking competition in my honour pic.twitter.com/1a5YyIbpEx
The thing is, when the guys picked up the lost wallet, they took some money out of it and held a drinking competition from the funds, which amounted to about $13.
Turns out that amount of cash buys a lot of White Lightning, the English equivalent to Olde English, Mad Dog 20/20, or the cream of the crop: Colt 45.
There were people who were dubious of the whole thing, as well.
@timburrows@Cromerty It's a trap! They'll spike your drink with roofie, steal more money/contactless to continue the Annual Comp; they've obvs run out of funding
