£2,346.72

A while back, in our electronic-transfers only savings account that can only receive money moved to and from our cheque account, we found the following transaction:

 18/06/2004         CRED REC/D BY POST       2,346.72 CR

We eventually abandoned the “anonymous benefactor” hypothesis! And while an extra £2,000 or so would always be useful (did someone say iMac g5?!), we thought the bank might want it back at some point. (Especially given similar recent publicity, admittedly on a grander scale.) Well after almost three months, at least two phone calls and most recently a letter, we heard back yesterday. The amount had been “incorrectly applied", the bank reported. The team leader wanted to “take this opportunity to thank [us] for bringing this to [her] attention..."

Jesus was once asked about paying taxes to occupying Roman authorities, an unpopular usury. Asking to see the coin used to pay the taxes, the image and name of the Emperor were found displayed on it. And Jesus said, “Give the Emperor what belongs to him and give God what belongs to God.” (Read it in Matthew, Mark, or Luke.)

Maybe you can't weigh integrity in pounds.