The Money Parable

This is a parable by Jared:

A man plans to go to a party honoring several people.  They've worked hard and will be awarded money.  His award is $100, and he's very excited.  He has plans for that money, since he hardly ever gets money.

His job is as a sprinkler maintenance man, and he goes just prior to when they are expected to start up at a particular park.  He surveys the park and waits for them to start.  They do, and he sees that they all look well in order, but then one area catches his eye.  It's sprayer is probably blocked.  Knowing it's on a timer and he will probably get a little wet when he fixes the problem, he ventures over in his rainboots and a parka.

He finds the sprayer and as soon as he unblocks it, it starts shooting again, however, before he gets very far walking back, he hears a yelp from behind a park bench, where he didn't see somebody had been sitting.  This man had some stacks of money, and one stack had fallen into the grass and was now getting wet.  As the man scrambled to pick up the wad, he looked up to see the sprinkler maintenance man, and recognized him!  Getting back to the wad, he found that it was soaked through.  This money would have to be separated and dried, now.

The sprinkler man doesn't suspect anything when he gets to the party later.  Not thinking anything would really be different, he sees the money-counting man from the park go up to give out the awards, but when he calls out sprinkler man's name, he hands him the wad of wet bills.  It has dried now but it was not separated.  It is obvious that any attempt to do so would rip the bills.

Would this be fair to the sprinkler man?