Hey! When did they put Jack Layton on the $100 bill?
We did the usual things. I read a couple of books. We ate out a lot. We watched hockey on TV. We visited a winery or two. We even met up with a couple of good friends who coincidentally were travelling in the same area. And as a surprise for her mom we took my wife's son (Jr. dufus-by-marriage) with us without telling her in advance.
It was a good week. Especially for me. Mrs dufus' mom bought me a golf shirt and sweater in advance of my birthday and sprung for a great dinner at a wonderful French restaurant called Bouchons Bistro where, according to their site, Neil Young (my musical hero) claims it's the best meal he had on his 2009 world tour. Is she a great person or what? Thankfully, according to my wife, they don't play his music in their restaurant...or sell any of his CDs. (It's okay, hon. I already have them all.)
Neil and Chef Dominique
"A man needs a chef"
But it didn't stop there. My credit cards were a little tapped out having sprung for the airfare and having made maybe a trip too many to Amazon.ca for CDs over the month of April. So I asked Mrs. D if she could give me a bit of cash against what she owed me. So she gave me a hundred dollar bill.
Well that piece of paper was worth well more than it's face value...over and over. And it lasted me close to 2 days! Every time I went to use it the cashier couldn't make change. So, guess what? I had to ask Mrs. D if she could pay. She'd pay. And I'd get to keep the $100. And it kind of added up. Remember that MasterCard ad? Yeah, well that was what this was kinda like.
It went something like this:
Beer and miscellaneous groceries: $82
Chapter's book store for a good read: $35
Mission Hill Winery for a gift for my daughter: $27
Lunch with coincidental friends: $68
Never any change for a hundred dollar bill: priceless
There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's Mrs D's purse!
Thanks for the great week, hon! I owe ya.
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By the way, Canadians are voting in an election today. If you're Canadian don't forget to vote. I'm gonna vote early and vote often!
I love democracy.
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Later that same day, I was putting away laundry. In Alex's sock drawer, there was a roll of cash, maybe $500 or so. I brought it out to him and said "I asked you for coke money and you said you didn't have any. What is THIS?" Alex responded, "No you didn't. You asked me if I had any change." Uh huh.
;-)
Trivia time: Did you know that Bahamian paper currency is printed in Canada? And like Canadian currency, you can confuse colours with the denominations of the notes. Here, the hundred dollar bill is almost the same colour as the ten dollar bill. The fives and the twenties are also close in colour. And I thought the US currency was confusing - well, not so much anymore.
(P.S. Due to a glich in Blogger, I got a preview of your latest PPP picture and assumed you were off to far away places.)
;-)
As for passing off Canadian currency, I once had inadvertently gave a cashier a Cdn one cent coin. One frakking penny! It was rejected, with disdain I might add. What kills me though, is that people - mostly Bahamians - will not pick up a penny should it fall from their hand when receiving change. True story: I once needed one penny for a grocery purchase (it was a total of $25.01, or something like that) and I didn't have any loose change but the cashier was waiting for me to make good on the total. Really. I scanned the floor and found three cents. I left the extra two for the next poor bastard who had to face this cashier.
That part of the country - the Okanagan - is gorgeous. We drove down to Penticton for lunch one day to a restaurant on the lake with a picturesque view and food to die for. It was a nice break.
How does one tap into Mrs.' D's purse?
*whistles*
hee hee hee
You sly Nomesters! You weren't even there! And there I was envisioning you with Sugar Plum Fairies in my head.
I think I need another DDP.
*grin*
Thank you.
How does one tap into Mrs.' D's purse?
*whistles*
hee hee hee
You sly Nomesters! You weren't even there! And there I was envisioning you with Sugar Plum Fairies in my head.
I think I need another DDP.
*grin*