If Bezos won’t sell you the Post, you could start a new Washington paper and hire the best reporters and opinion writers from the Post. I’ll pitch “Light on Washington” or something that plays on “Democracy dies in darkness” as a name. This just if you can’t acquire the post…

Haha, maybe so!

Eager to resolve the issue sooner, I got them to turn the cash over to the police the next day. I then called the police, who said I could receive the money if I showed a copy of the bank statement for the account from which the money had been withdrawn and explained exactly what happened…(3)

I noticed the inner envelope was missing a few days later and called the cafe. They had kept it for a day, then turned it over to lost-and-found, whom I called next. Lost-and-found said that they could not judge my claim on the cash and they would turn it over to the police in a week… (2)

The gift-giver then called the police and provided the bank statement, and I got the cash back. I was panicking during this whole ordeal, but really, I think I’m blessed to be surrounded by kind people in a functional, rule-based society.
But I’m not a big fan of cash.

discovered I could get the cash back if I showed the bank account statement from which the cash had been withdrawn. And so it was that I had to ask the person who originally gave me the beautiful gift to make a copy of their bank statement to show the police…

I discovered it missing a few days later and called the cafe. They’d kept until the next day and taken it to a lost and found. I called the lost and found and was told they’d take it to the police. So I called the police and…