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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: American Money - One Color
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Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 18:20:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 16 18:20:43 1984
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I can remember a trip to the States that I was on a few years ago.  One of
the people with me bought a $10 item in a store, paid for it with a $20 
bill, and got a $50 bill as change!  My point:  Canadian money, which is 
more colorful, is *much* easier to recognise than American money.  Who
could get a red $50 confused with a purple $10, or a green $1?
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When the new greenish $20's came out a few years ago, I got four of them
in change when I bought a small item with a $5.  I showed the man and asked
him if he really meant to do it.  He looked and said "sure".  So I got him
to look again, and he was horrified.  Then he found that almost all
the "$1" bills in his water-tumbler full of change were $20s.  I don't
know who made the original error, or who eventually made the profit.
I know I got four $1 in the end.
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Martin Taylor
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