Social Experiment

We had planned to leave by train at 5:00 pm to travel from York to Manchester, but the trains delayed giving us an extra hour to kill at the train station. We grew increasingly bored until we decided to conduct a "social experiment". We had pockets full of British change and started dropping coins on the platform to see how much it would take before someone would claim the money. We started with 2 pence (about $0.04). No one even acknowledged the coin on the ground. We then placed 5 pence, 10 pence, 20 pence and 50 pence ($1.00) coins on the ground. The train station was busy and peopled walked past, stopped next to and looked at the coins, but didn't pick them up. We even set coins adjacent to vending machines of all places and people still didn't pick them up. Finally someone sat down to eat there lunch with their foot inches away from the 10 p coin ($0.20). After five minutes they finally claimed the coin. If you happen to be in York in the coming weeks, the coins are probably still there.