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When I tunred 5, a beloved great aunt gave me a crip $20 bill for my birthday. My mom helped me open a bank account, and deposit the money (along with the conte
by zekevermillion 10y ago
When I tunred 5, a beloved great aunt gave me a crip $20 bill for my birthday. My mom helped me open a bank account, and deposit the money (along with the contents of my piggy bank). About a week later, I wanted to know if I could get my $20 back out to admire it. I was told that I could get a $20 bill, but it would not be the same one. I found this very upsetting, and I think I may have cried.
- arkitaip 10y agoChrist that's heartbreaking.
- adriand 10y agoI can't tell if you're being serious. Are you? It doesn't seem heartbreaking to me at all, it seems goofy in a very typically childish way. It's a $20 bill, not the death of a pet (or a grandparent for that matter), or a parental divorce, or some other genuinely heartbreaking event.
- samirillian 10y agoConsider de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet: Monsieur Grandet is something of a tragic character, tormented by the fact that he could not both circulate his currency and have it too.
- cperciva 10y agoThey should have told you that $20 bills are like electrons: Every one of them is the same one. :-)
- gruez 10y agoNot sure if the kid would believe it when he gets back a wrinkled old bill.
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- roywiggins 10y agoWhenever I've withdrawn money from a bank in person I've gotten nice clean bills, fwiw
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- shitgoose 10y agothat's why we have to move back to gold standard.