Thursday, June 18, 2009
FACING CURRENCY
I hadn't seen this trick yet.
I was going to write about facing the currency in my wallet and then I found this picture.
Another conspiracy of the mujahim and the elders of zion working together to undermine our money.
Facing currency.
When I had my first job, in a drugstore at 14, I was taught that currency was to be placed in the drawer facing right to left and all in place.
For a long time, banks would only take "folding money" that was faced.
A few years ago, I was treasurer of an outfit that took up a collection. Actually 30 collections a week. 2400 a week. I counted the cash and I faced the bills.
One day, when I took the money to the Bank of America, I pointed out how carefully I had faced the bills and that the BofA ATMs did not.
The teller told me that no one did it anymore. All the paper currency was counted by machine and it could count no matter which way it went into the bin.
with an air of superiority, she told me that she, a 20 year career person, still faced all her bills and counted them out that way to her customers but a lot of the tellers did not.
Do tell. All that facing and it didn't matter a bit.
I didn't give up. I kept at it. And I still do, in a more limited way.
I go to the ATM and get my cash for the month and, sure enough, the bills come out any old fucking way.
Before I even get into my car, I face the bills.
I am writing this as a piece of oral history from "the way things used to be and are not anymore".
Back to the money folding games. Origami for those who are flush with cash.
Here is another one.
I know how to make Lincoln or Jackson smile. You can also make him frown by inverting the fold.
Actually it works on any of them. Even old wooden toothed George but it comes out more like a simper.
