Sad Boy Comes Home from Airport and Finds $50,000 inside His Backpack — Story of the Day
An unhappy boy returns home from a trip with his parents and finds $50,000 worth of cash in his backpack, but nothing is as it seems.
Richard was a very unhappy child and had been for years. The boy was merely 14, but he already had a bleak outlook on life, not that he could be blamed. Unlike his friends and other kids, he did not come from a loving home.
His parents did not love him; the pair had been barely adults themselves when they welcomed Richard, and they had both blamed him for stealing their youth.
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“I always wanted to travel the world with you mother but you made that impossible with your arrival,” his father, Mike, would say.
“I should be out there partying with my friends every day but I have to be home to care for you. I never wanted kids but there you were,” his mom Celine, would say.
It was as though all the love they should have reserved for him was diverted to each other, and there was little to do about it, so he kept to himself, unused to love and clueless about giving it back to anyone else.
One day, he was returning with his parents from a vacation. He enjoyed the sceneries from the trip, but as usual, it was mostly limited to the hotel room they rented as a family.
His parents had left him there to go sightseeing and partying so that when they returned, they were both drunk. Fortunately for him, they were happy drunks, and the only thing they did was mess around with one another.
On their way home, his parents were sitting next to each other on the plane, but Richard was sitting in the other part of the plane, far from them. By his side was a man of 50 who struck up a conversation with him after the plane took off.
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“You look down boy, is anything the matter?” the man asked. Richard would have ignored him, but he felt too bored, so he responded quietly and truthfully.
“That’s because I am,” he said.
“I’m Alex, will you tell me why you feel this way?”
“No,” Richard said. “My mom asked me not to speak to strangers.”
“We can remedy that. You already know my name. I own a...