you've just wasted several minutes of your life and you'll never get them back.

how do you forget to take your money from a cash machine!?!?!

I know he's taking the mick, but he raises an interesting point in that how did he get so far away from you so quickly when you saw he hadn't taken his money?

At least it wasn't my £50.

I've done it

fortunately it was only a tenner, but as stated the machine took the money back and my account was refunded.

Blinkin' 'eck! And I though[i I [/iwas cynical!

Well I've just handed it over to the police and they're treating it as found property, but don't have any resources to try and trace the owner despite a receipt from the cash machine. I'm also going to contact Barclays to see if they can get in touch with him, be interesting to see if they bother.

Guilty also m'lord.

I wouldn't hand it in to the police either. I think there was a case recently that somebody who handed money in that they had found would have had it returned to them but it went "awry" when he went back to claim it as his own after a period of time when it is legal to do so.

Better off in your pocket or maybe donate it to a charity or something? As far as I'm concerned its their mistake and you should do with it what you think ethical!

What the police actually did was took down the details and told me to keep hold of it. They basically said it wasn't worth the paperwork of handing it in properly. Same principle if the guy comes to claim it though.
Cynical moi?

Being a non-wallet man, hate them, I once obliviously dropped a wad of £800 cash in my local boozers toilets after a good day on the gee-gees.
The next one in the gents obviously came acoss it and came to the bar and handed it in to my mate the landlord.
He wasn't even a local and I managed to fire a couple of large malts down him as a token of my thanks.
I've lost that much cash out of my pockets I dread to think.
Just as well I don't have any money anymore.