A Fine Story
This next story is almost a perfectly formed illustration of the phrase “No good deed goes unpunished.” This poor person, just trying to do the right thing, gets slapped in the face by karma so immediately and so neatly that it’s almost amusing – when you get past how frustrating and sad it is.
I think that it’s the perfection of him having found $100 and then getting fined $100. If he had been a less honest person, he could have kept the wallet, had time to buy his ticket, and not gotten the fine, so he would be $200 richer than his better self.