General Discussion

Feller goes to an inn for ale. After a bit he has the urge to pee.

He leaves his pouch on the bar and the innkeeper sees a gold coin of value.

The impulse is too great and the innkeeper snatches it and pays the waitress her back-pay.

The waitress is delighted because her grocer has been hounding her for gold she owes him and she is finally able to pay up.

The grocer, likewise, pays his debt with the cobbler.

In his turn the cobbler is able to get square with the blacksmith.

The blacksmith is delighted to reimburse the hooker he had been boinging.

The hooker pays her back rent to the innkeeper who manages to slip the gold back into the pouch just before the stranger returned from the outhouse.

So: Everyone's debts have been paid, no one lost gold, no one gained gold. Every one is satisfied.

Wait. What?