If you would take the time to stare at the ground as you walk around town and pick up every piece of trash you see just to inspect it, you’d find a wealth of interesting things. Once I found some broken beer bottles, which was pretty cool, and sometimes I find wet, moldy clothing. About a year ago, I found a folded-up origami on the side of the road, a little child’s piece of art.
I used to make these all the time in high school–we called them fortune tellers. The bearer would present the fortune teller to whomever was playing, and, through a scientific algorithm, reveal some futuristic event in the child’s life (e.g., “You will have a hot girlfriend”). Mine, on the other hand, just had monstrous faces drawn on the outsides of them and became the subjects of paper-related experiments, like vivisection.
Otherwise doomed to decay, my treasure hunting find is now eternally preserved on my website. Go ahead, find out what some kid in California had to say about you in the Interactive Paper Fortune Teller.