» The most cash I've ever carried

Child labour
When 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 23rd Jun 2006, 17:40, More)