[RunDownHouse]

Another update: I was thinking that my best chance of recovering the money would now be to have my girlfriend call up and claim it. I don't think this is too bad, since the rightful owner would have claimed it by now. Teller friends say that the bank sometimes checks the account activity for the day in question and would be much, much more reticent to hand it over if things didn't add up.

One teller friend also says that my best choices are to try to make some quasi-legal statement, saying that I was told the money would be mine if it went unclaimed, and that I handed it over in good faith with that expectation, or to find the teller I originally gave it to and try to get her to hand it over.

So it looks like its a crapshoot. I am trying to decide what to do, but right now I'm leaning towards causing a big scene when I go on Saturday. My girlfriend is a pretty bad liar.

Again, I am pretty saddened by this whole thing.