A friend of mine called today to talk. He's feeling depressed. Seems he lost a cashier's check for $15,000 last week. Carried it around, in anticipation of buying a new car. (My question--why? if you have that kind of money, do your negotiating, then go get the check or the cash or whatever. Write a check.) Forgot and left it behind the visor for a couple of days in the old beater pickup in the driveway, thought he'd dodged the "losing it" bullet by finding it and taking it into the house. Thinks he left it on the edge of his dresser.

He lives with his adult mentally-retarded brother (mental age about 5?), who is a compulsive trash emptier. Dresser near trash can. You get the drift.