Now that's change we can believe in!
Hal
"Never underestimate the power of stupid
people in large groups."
--George Carlin
Halvard Johnson
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Last night I dreamed that I ate in a restaurant, not a fancy one, but
> one where you went up to the cashier to pay. I gave the very nice
> young woman there a large bill to pay my check, and she handed me back
> in change a stack of smaller bills, one of which was literally smaller
> than the rest, printed on cheap paper and looking like Monopoly money,
> with the oval in the center delimiting a portrait not of a U.S.
> president, but of Allen Ginsberg. I said to her, "What's this?" and
> she replied, "Sir: that's your change." I objected, "No it isn't.,
> it's funny money! Look, this isn't a portrait of George Washington,
> it's Allen Ginsberg." "Sir," she replied in the voice of one who has
> been trained by management how to deal with difficult customers, "if
> you'll wait a moment, I'll call someone to help you." Instantly a
> chipper young management-trainee type appeared and asked me to follow
> him through a door. As soon as we passed through it, he wasn't there
> any more, and looking around I found myself in some sort of lavatory.
> At that point I woke up and it was morning, and peering out from
> behind the blind through the window I found that a blizzard had
> covered the world in snow. Ach, and here it is nearly April.
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