{"id":239,"date":"2007-03-04T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T04:10:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:31","slug":"the-old-twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/03\/the-old-twenty","title":{"rendered":"The Old Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I stopped by my local pizza joint<\/a> tonight to grab a lazy dinner, and upon getting to the counter I noticed that I had five ones and one twenty.<\/p>\n

The tab was $7.30 so the obvious choice would be to whip out the twenty, which I did. Upon holding this Jackson in my hand though, I remembered it wasn’t just any Jackson. It was a pre-1998 redesign Jackson. 1969 in fact.<\/p>\n

I’d had this beauty in my wallet for a couple of weeks and tried not to spend it — although I knew I eventually would unless it was put into safe keeping. Such a beautiful bill… clearly superior in every way<\/a> to the new rubbish.<\/p>\n

My head told me I was the only person in the restaurant who would care about such a thing.<\/p>\n

Inhale. Exhale. I handed the bill unceremoniously to girl behind the counter.<\/p>\n

“Oh wow! An old twenty! I’m SO keeping this!” she said to my surprise as she plucked a modern twenty from her own wallet and made the exchange.<\/p>\n

“I’m glad it’s going to someone who appreciates it,” I said as I watched her show it off to the other employees.<\/p>\n

After relinquishing the twenty, I realized that it had been probably two or so years since I’d seen one… and I pay with cash a lot. I wonder what that says about the shelf-life and geographic distribution of paper currency in our country. I’d love to see some studies on this.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Kottke<\/a>, the master of interesting cultural trivia, is up-to-date on this and has detailed info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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