Posted 02/28/2009 05:05 am
Yep, it's human nature to hide stuff away where "they" can't find it, whoever "they" might happen to be.
Here in Brisbane, Australia, we often hear reports of renovators finding WWII-era silver coins and notes sealed up inside wall cavities and under floors - during the war, everyone was terrified of an imminent Japanese invasion, and many hid their money in places they thought "the Japs" wouldn't find it.
In the end, the invasion never came (thanks to the timely intervention of the Americans) but some of the hoards were never retrieved. The hoarder may have gone off to war and been killed, or may have forgotten the hoard was there, or may simply have never been desperate enough to retrieve it nor told anyone it was there, and took the secret to their grave.
Here in Brisbane, Australia, we often hear reports of renovators finding WWII-era silver coins and notes sealed up inside wall cavities and under floors - during the war, everyone was terrified of an imminent Japanese invasion, and many hid their money in places they thought "the Japs" wouldn't find it.
In the end, the invasion never came (thanks to the timely intervention of the Americans) but some of the hoards were never retrieved. The hoarder may have gone off to war and been killed, or may have forgotten the hoard was there, or may simply have never been desperate enough to retrieve it nor told anyone it was there, and took the secret to their grave.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
