-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> Ok Jean here's mine.

 JP>         Ok, here another one. On flights to Nice in France, at the
 JP>         airport, there was an ATM and one stewardess told me that it
 JP> was
 JP>         defective as she would withdraw 500 FF and they never showed up
 JP>         on her bank account. She had been doing this for a year, every
 JP>         second week. I tried it and was docked $120.00 Cdn on my
 JP>         account. Beginner's luck or what ?

Don't know the exchange rate, was this win, lose or draw?

 JP>         I never got the end of the story if she ever was debited all
 JP>         these eventually. She wisely told me that she was keeping the
 JP>         necessary amount in her account, just in case.

 JP>         I would have been tempted to keep milking your golden goose if
 JP> I
 JP>         had been you. You sound like an honest man, not only sound but
 JP>         are.

This one doesn't involve ATM's but I was unemployed at the time.
Went into a laundramat first thing in the morning to beat the crowd.
I was completely alone and at that time there were no cameras.
What do I see on top of the Hamilton bill changing machine but two
huge keyrings with perhaps 80 - 100 keys on them including the
round security keys that fit Hamilton change machines,
soda and soap dispensers.

Well instead of cleaning the place out I grabbed one of those
wheeled carts and standing in it was able to hide the keys on
top of the emergency exit sign.

 Left a message on the emergency number posted on the front door
 answering machine where the keys could be found.
 About four months later I stopped in first thing and caught the
 guy that serviced the place saying "I see you found the keys."
 Well the guy was speechless at first but upon regaining his
 speech he said he didn't think there were
 any honest people around anymore and insisted I accept a 100
 dollar reward on the spot. Turned it down three times but accepted
 on the forth pass when he said I'd saved his job as well
 as the costs of rekeying many dozens of locks, said it would have
 run into the thousands.
 The keys fit _6_ laundramats doors, washers, dryers, change
 machines, ect.
 I had to ask so I say to the guy were all those machines full of
 cash and change full or had you emptied them?
 He answered it was his first stop to collect the moneys on his
 route of six laundramats and forgetting something at home accidently
 left the keys!!! Wish I had not asked ;-)
 The man had left a cryptic note on a pegboard in the place and I
 had read it but being so cute in offering a reward for keys already
 returned I found it incomprehensible. He didn't want false claimants.
 When I told him where I'd put the keys and that I had to separate the
 sets to hide them he knew I was the guy who'd saved him much grief.

 You know I don't think I've ever made someone so happy before,
 the guy was totally on cloud 9 over an event that happened months before.
 
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