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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WadsI once took a stop-over in Lagos on the way back from somewhere dreadful in the Congo.
Just to be on the safe side, I changed a couple of hundred in sterling to Nigerian Niara to pay for the hotel, driver, food, local taxes. In my frazzled state, I didn't know a few things:
- Because there is so much forgery, the highest note in Nigeria at the time was N20
- You got 20 of these notes to the pound
Result: A wad about a foot thick. I was SO minted.
Minted, right up to the moment the hotel guy told me "Actually, we'd prefer if you paid in pounds, sir."
No wonder the basic unit of currency there is the Ebay Laptop.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 22 Jun 2006, 20:33,
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