some of my best come ups:
working at Safeway, I was stacking some black baskets one time and a wad of 20's fell out. I looked around, all suspicious of being set up, but no one was around. Pocketed that shit with the quickness. Turned out to be $300, like fresh from the ATM. copped a half zip of purp, a bottle of don julio, and some beer, and had like a third of it left over.
I also used to count cash for Safeway. part of that job was to print out reports from the Scratcher machine at the end of the day, and by that time the machine was a mess. Hella used scratchers, old lotto tickets, those forms people fill out to get their tickets, etc. Well I'm picking up the garbage and realize someone left a new scratcher in the machine; some people would drop like a $20 or a $50 and buy many at a time, and I guess someone missed it.
I scratched that shit and it was $200. That was another good ass weekend. Not that that person that lost it knew, but fuck, would they have been angry.
Perhaps the best come-up ever-I bought a perfectly clean 2000 Subaru Outback with low mileage and loved the shit out of that car, it was my first car and was a steal. I paid 2 grand for it. 6 months into driving it, someone cut me off in GG Park, in the rain, and tapped my ride on the front right side. I tried to avoid being completely hit, and it was enough to fishtail, hit a 90 degree angle, and slam headon into the median wall thing. That car took off hella fast too.
First and only accident I've ever been in, and because there were witnesses, someone got the plate of the other car, and they were ruled at fault.
Now the come-up: After assessing the car as totaled, insurance "cashed me out" 7 muthafucking grand for that car.