You Pick Up a Book in a Used Bookstore and Find Five $100 Bills in It—What Do You Do?

Perform a random act of kindness that makes as many people happy as it possibly can. Here’s how.

What I should do:

Hand the book to the store owner and tell him or her: “Hey, here’s 500 bucks inside this book, do you know who they belong to?”

But the way I know my used-bookstore-owners, they’d just get greedy and pocket the money themselves.

Here’s a better idea that’ll make not just one, but six people happy.

What I would do:

Take out all of the bills but one, walk to the four corners of the bookstore and put one $100 note into a random book in each corner.

Now 5 people can find random books with $100 in them and have a really happy day, plus I’ll be happy because I know 5 others will be 🙂

Nik

Niklas Göke writes for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. A self-taught writer with more than a decade of experience, Nik has published over 2,000 articles. His work has attracted tens of millions of readers and been featured in places like Business Insider, CNBC, Lifehacker, and many others. Nik has self-published 2 books thus far, most recently 2-Minute Pep Talks. Outside of his day job and daily blog, Nik loves reading, video games, and pizza, which he eats plenty a slice of in Munich, Germany, where he resides.