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May 8th, 2008
On my lunch break today, I found this plastic dogtag on a counter in the company cafeteria:
I know it’s a cheesy Suze Orman gimmick, but there are worse sentiments to carry around with you. I took a cell photo of it and then brought it to the building Security.
“Hi,” I said to the guard behind the desk. “Do you have a lost and found?”
He said nothing but held out his hand. I put the dogtag in it.
“I found this in the –”
“‘People first then money then things,’” read the security guard, frowning. “What’s that?”
“It’s someone’s –”
“We can keep here for twenty-four hours,” he said, “but if no one comes to claim it, it will go to the main office.” He kept reading the tag as if the catchphrase were a terrorist message in code.
“OK. I just thought someone might–”
He tossed the tag into a drawer. “That’s a really weird thing to have on a keychain.”
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