Scene Starter #8

Not that many of my warm-state native friends can relate, but I love winter because of jackets. I like the way they look, I like the act of putting on another layer, and I always remember the one time I pulled out my snow coat and found a twenty dollar bill in it- a gift from my previously more affluent self. That crumpled up Andrew Jackson face made my week and inspired this scene starter: 

A piece of paper folded into a jacket pocket is forgotten until the jacket is passed on. What does it say? 

There are a few things to think about here. First of all, whose jacket was it originally? How did it come to the new owner- a Goodwill purchase, a bequeathing, a hand-me-down, a loaner? What is the actual message? How does your character take its meaning? And where will it take your story? 

BRB, stuffing some petty cash into a jacket pocket for December Cate to find. 

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