
All he had to do was play it cool…
Occasionally, you have an unusually good day.
Your hair falls perfectly into place even though you didn’t have time to blowdry it.
Your boss forgets that you were meant to do that presentation.
Your children eat everything on their plates and go to bed without complaint.
A universal rule governs such inexplicable good luck: be cool, because as soon as you reschedule your hair appointment for next week or take a long lunch or invite the girls over to your suspiciously quiet house for a drink, everything will go to shit faster than you can say “sneaky chardonnay”.

Like a good hair day, a free pass at work or well-behaved children, $150,000 in cash is a gift few of us deserve. It’s important to tread very, very carefully and not make any sudden movements if you come across such a gift… or you might end up like Alton Harvey, the 42-year-old man who found $150,000 in a bag on the ground and failed to be cool in the most spectacular way possible.