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Last Monday Marcy and I were victims of a crime.
We went up to Pacific Mall (Wikipedia) to purchase some “items”. Most of the purveyors of said “items” only accept cash, offer no receipt or bags. You can probably guess what I’m talking about.
Anyway, I had to go to the bank machine to get some cash. There was a TD branch in the parking lot so I walked over and used their bank machine. I got out $60. I walked back to the mall and purchased our “items”. We then walked around, looking at the other shops. We stopped at a Vietnamese bakery shop and wanted to purchase some buns. I took a $20 bill and handed it to the cashier. She looked at it and then handed it back and asked if I had another one. Fortunately I did and we bought our pastries. They were pretty terrible but that’s not the point.
The point is that the $20 bill that I originally gave to the cashier was a counterfeit. We looked at the bill and though it looked extremely similar to a real $20 bill, there were some oddities that would give it away. The paper wasn’t the same texture. The bill was slightly shorter in length than it should have been. The really fine print was not visible. Things like this but really there wasn’t much that we could do.
I figured even if I did go to the bank when it opened (Monday was a bank holiday), I had no way of proving that the $20 counterfeit bill was in fact one that I received from the bank machine. Even if they did believe me, I wouldn’t get a real $20 bill. They would just take the counterfeit one and that’s it.
So instead we’re keeping the bill. It makes for a good conversation piece plus Marcy can use it in one of her law classes next year.
Crime can happen anywhere. It happened to me last Monday when I was least expecting it. It could happen next Monday for all I know. Just make sure that you watch out.
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We went to our local Toronto Public Library branch this afternoon because Marcy had some library fines from last year to pay. She’s looking to get some reading material once school is out and if there are outstanding fines they won’t let you borrow any more books.
We went in and gave the lady working the desk our new address information. It turns out that they don’t use the Interac machine sitting next to the computer though it clearly seemed to be on and working. We had to pay by cash instead and between Marcy and me we pulled together the required amount.
This seemed to shock the lady serving us. I’d say she was a librarian but that would be a lie as she was just “helping out this weekend”. Anyway she was shocked because after determining that we were married, she told us that her husband would never help her out in that way. He would be mad at her for even getting such a high fine. In truth the fine wasn’t even that much. You’d spend more at Chapters in an afternoon. She seemed to think that I was some prince for giving up my money to help pay a lowly library fine.
The truth is that it’s our money; we both earned it so to praise me (and indirectly condemning Marcy) in this way she was acting in a very sexist manner. I guess the old “lord of the household” mentality hasn’t really disappeared. It’s disappointing that she felt that she had to talk to us this way but we let it go and walked away. Hopefully she’s not there the next time we go to the branch. She might say that Marcy should be home instead of out in public.
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I admit, I own the winning ticket. You can send my $124.1 million lump sum at any time.
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