NORWICH, Conn. (AP) – A fast-food worker who found a $185,000 check on a Norwich sidewalk this week says he didn’t think twice about trying to cash it.

Reggie Damone, who receives food stamps and works at McDonald’s in Lisbon, tracked down the Norwich landlord to whom the check was written. Then, the 47-year-old Damone took a bus Monday from his Jewett City home to a local bank and returned the wayward check to its owner, who thanked him with a $50 bill.

Damone says he found the check in an envelope he picked up from a sidewalk.

, intending to jot down a phone number on what he thought was litter.

He says although he knew the $185,000 could pay his rent and other bills for a long time, he was never tempted to try to cash it and splurge.

He says he remembered his mother’s words: If you take something, you lose three times that amount – and if you do something good, something good comes back to you.