Buried deep
inside my purse was a twenty dollar bill with a problem. Part of it was missing. The bottom half had
disappeared. Since this had never happened to me before, I wasn’t sure what to
do about it. At first I thought I’d be able to spend it. But nobody would take
it. So I decided to take it to the bank to get my spending power back. But the
first bank I took it to wouldn’t exchange it for me. They told me I’d need the
bottom half to get the 20 bucks. I thought that was ridiculous. They were a
bank. Surely that wasn’t true, was it? If I had the bottom half I would just
tape it together. They were saying the half of the bill I had was worthless. I
couldn’t believe this was happening. If
I had gotten this in change, that meant somebody tried to stiff me. That made
me feel like an unknowing dupe. What was I going to do? After careful
consideration, I opted to take the damaged twenty to another bank. At the second bank location... they happily took
it, and exchanged it for a new crisp twenty. Needless to say... I was ecstatic. I
got my buying power back. Has anything like this ever happened to you?
