The most cash I've ever carriedThere's nothing like carrying large amounts of cash to make yourself feel simultaneously like a lottery winner and an obvious target.
A friend went to buy a car for ten grand, panicked and stuffed it down his pants for safety. It was all a bit smelly by the time he got there and he had to search around for some of it...
Tell us the story behind the most cash you've ever carried.
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chthonic, Thu 22 Jun 2006, 10:39)
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Child labourWhen I was at school I used to work Saturdays at my dad's cash and carry business. The goods were scanned in at one point and then the customer had to go to a specially secure cash office by the exit to actually pay. The cash office had CCTV, security glass, big locks, as you might expect for a place where people might be spending a few hundred to a few thousand quid at a time.
What never made any sense to me was that towards the end of the day, the takings from the cash office were taken to one of the back room offices to be counted and put in the safe. Which meant it had to be carried across the public warehouse floor. Who do you get to carry about £30,000 in heaps of various notes and coins across the warehouse floor in a little cardboard tray? Well, why not the boss's school-age daughter? It was kind of fun, and I'm afraid I was the sort of child that never even thought of pocketing some.
(, Fri 23 Jun 2006, 17:40, Reply)
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