Alexander, can you hear me?
We were tidying the office today (not my idea!) and I came upon the wrinklies, rattiest, fadedest dirty rust-stained(!) sawbuck I have ever seen. It’s thin as a tissue, as though it’s been abraded somehow. A puff of air would disintegrate it.
I can’t throw it away. Somehow, I cannot make myself put ten bucks in the trash.
If I were home, I could probably take it to a bank and get it replaced, but that’s not going to happen. I’m stuck.
I’ll probably die clutching this thing in my hand.
Posted: January 16th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 8
Comments
Comment from steve
Time: January 16, 2025, 9:39 pm
(Psst! Instant “Weasel-art” for some deserving Dead Pool winner.)
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: January 16, 2025, 10:23 pm
I was thinking you could write a short story about how it got lost where you work. Illustrated of course with a chicken holding the bill, since you prefer to draw chickens above all else.
Comment from Carl
Time: January 16, 2025, 10:55 pm
Send it to a relative in the States. They could take it to a bank.
Comment from thefritz
Time: January 17, 2025, 12:07 am
and by relative, Carl is referring to me…my nickname in college was ‘Sawbuck’ because I was so poor I never saw a buck.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: January 17, 2025, 12:35 pm
Send it to Joe and Jill.
1) Because the poor dears are done officially siphoning off cash from his 50+ years of grifting as an elected official.
2) As a living visible symbol of destroying the quality and worth of the American dollar that he practiced over his lifetime, and accelerated with his profligate raiding of the treasury in his last 4 years, indeed last 4 weeks, of government employment.
3) It will hopefully spawn a Joe History tale about how that $10 was given to his Uncle Bosie by a colored railroad porter “for saving America and freeing black folks” when he shipped out to the Pacific, where it was then taken off him by a cannibal as a reminder of a scrumptious dinner, then handed down through three cannibal generations only to be returned to Joe during a diplomatic trip to New Guinea which Joe never actually took.
Printed date on bill, and actual sourcing, being irrelevant.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: January 17, 2025, 1:45 pm
Well—I wanted a story and Durnedyankee delivered!
Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: January 18, 2025, 7:06 pm
Ayup. Foreign banks won’t touch anything other than $100 bills. And not change, either. And the bills had better not be marked or mutilated. I think your poor $10 doesn’t have a change. I’d frame it and make up a great story about it.
Comment from Pupster
Time: January 18, 2025, 11:53 pm
Looks like you folded it into a paper football at one point.
You remember those? Kick it with your finger through the uprights?
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