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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Two hundred thousand poundsSterling, i hasten to add, not those funny egyptian pounds that are worth about two bob, but ten thousand legitimate portraits of The Queen and Michael Faraday, and they were rather heavy.
At the time, i was working for the Abbey National in one of their ATM Cash Processing warehouses, which, in normals terms, is a big warehouse full of cash (which has been sent in from various sources, and bagged in various amounts), which needs to be unpacked, turned so that the notes arent folded together, and fed into a massive machine, which counts it out into bundles of two and a half grand, which then need to have a paper band put around it, then sealed into security bags.
On one day, i personally handled over 7.2 MILLION QUID IN CASH. Unfortunantly, the bastards wouldnt let us work from home :(
edit: also, on the lead up to New Year's Eve, the vault generally contains just under a billion quid in tens and twenties
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lo, the Greebo Warrior - Est. 2002, Thu 22 Jun 2006, 20:45,
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