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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The most moneyI first had of my own was about £50. Birthday money, and since my birthday's on 1st January, I can go mental in the sales. Brilliant.
And I once held a 500-euro note. Probably effectively the most money I've ever had in my hand. Of course, my dad did have to tell me the moment that I gave it back that he'd actually taken it away to check for fingerprints...
Earlier this year, some kind of savings plan my parents had for me matured. Some of it had already been spunked on my laptop, some went into an ISA (and I've discovered how to transfer money out of that without anyone noticing) and I got £250 to spend on whatever I wanted. I'd lost my phone some months beforehand, so logically, buy a new one. I couldn't find my card to order it off the internet myself, so my mother bought it and told me to pay her back when I did find my card. So on the day I decide to go and spunk all the rest of the money away, I take the £120 for it out of the bank...before I set off shopping.
I tucked it into an unassuming pink A4 notebook I had in my bag from sheer fear.
It was a wrench to hand that over when I got back in that night.
Oh, and the time I got entrusted with a cheque for about £400 with no name on it. If you worked for a major live music venue in Newcastle, would you trust a teenager who could claim to be anyone, with a cheque like that?
It's a good thing I'd already showed myself up to be lovely and trustworthy.
(, Thu 22 Jun 2006, 15:31, Reply)
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