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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A hard bit of negotiation.....It was 45,000 euros - and the bank was a bit funny with me when I went to pick it up. Jesus it was my own money but of course if you take out more than a fiver these days then they assume you must be handing it over to bearded terrorists in return for a dodgy IOU promising everlasting virgins sans Buhkas as pie in the sky when you die. The forms, oh my god, the forms... I still have nightmares of the endless paper trail.
Anyhow - the cash was to buy a book and when I got to meet the owner in Paris it became clear that some odds and sods from it were missing (it was by Marcel Duchamp which is a clue why it was so expensive). Making it clear there was no way the money was appearing from beside my bollocks (where I had hidden it) without the missing bits of the book reappearing, he first of all tried to tell me that the book was complete and fine and it was all my fault for not knowing what I was doing. Yeah. Sure. Twenty minutes later after a little discussion le batard dropped his price from 45K to 7K with pretty much no protest and the deal was done. Lying knowing swine, he could have at least made some sport of it given he was fully aware of the truth all along.
On my return I tried to put the unspent balance back in my bank. 38,000 euros being the second largest amount I've ever carried anywhere. Guess? Yep more forms and explanations of where it came from.
And yes, it's a real company my addy's taken from, and I want to work for them:
(, Thu 22 Jun 2006, 22:39, Reply)
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