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April 24, 2008 |
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Karma's a Bitch
FOUND by Elizabeth
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I came across this old-style Canadian twenty-dollar bill while counting the till at a fundraising event.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
that sucks! but, like they said, karma's a bitch... at least it was for charity.
Karma's a bitch... so there!
I thought it said "kama" is a bitch, and I was thinking then get back at "kama" directly. Oooh, karma.
I'm not completely up to speed with the ins and outs of karma, dharma and the whole wheel thing, but if you get back at someone by spending their 'collector' $20 at a charity function, then doesn't someone get good karma out of it? and wouldn't that someone be the owner of the $20 rather than the spender who is acting out of anger?
See I think they'd have been better off just writing on the "collector" twenty. Wouldn't have cost them this twenty.
Karma's a bitch and then you marry one.
In making the point of trying to be the dealer of the karma, the spender is actually creating bad karma for himself by trying to hurt another. Sort of like cutting off your nose.....
In saying that, I guess the loser of the $20 is experiencing John Lennons version of Instant Karma by having lost the cash.
I hope he/she thinks the value of the bill was over-rated and just kept it cos it was cool. I have an old paper 20 that I actually bought for the insignificant sum of a "new and improved plastic" $20 note.
and on reading it again. The $20 was spent. I bet he or she got something for it. Just cos it turned up at a charity event means nothing.
omygod. This is freaky. The little note was not left for the original owner of the cash, it was for anyone else who happened to get it in change.... spreading the good word. Spread the good karma around. I do not believe spreading bad feeling over the world is good for your own karmic state.
All very pre-meditated and strange.
I think the quotation marks are around "collector", because it's not really a collector's item. They're still just worth $20, and judging by the crinkles and wrinkles, it's not a mint condition specimen. I think owner of the $20 was just saving it for nostalgic purposes. This makes the spender seem pretty spiteful and vindictive...and if they spent the $20, would the original owner ever have actually read what was written on it??
Karma *is* a bitch. So's my ex, who I understand will do it for a $20 these days.
Isn't karma something that just happens, if people do it it's called revenge.
Also, I really like the colorful strip on the lhs of the bill. Here's to Canada and it's awesome buckage.
Karma might be a bitch, but that babe whose picture is on the bill is a real hottie. Woo-hoo!
I haven't worked it all out yet, but I wonder if the one who was collecting the bill did something spiteful to the spender in order to obtain the bill in the first place. Now the spender feels it is their place to right the karmic balance by removing the bill from the collectors influence. Ay-ay-ay. Makes my head hurt.
Actually, Doofus has a point. The chick on the bill IS pretty. Canadians get to have money that's brightly colored AND adorned with pretty people?
Shoot, I'm headin' north...
Imagine the karma coming back at the note writer for being a theif! And what are the chances of the original owner ever getting the $20 back to read the theif's message? And not only was it spent, but it was defaced with the stupid note. I think the theif will find out that karma is definitely a bitch and so is she.
*thIEf--I knew that didn't look right...
Doofus & Schneh, the pictured beauty is Queen Elizabeth II probably from the early to mid 1960s.
I don't actually believe in kharma per say, however, "DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WANT DONE UNTO YOU".
I only believe that kharma will bite you back when you let khrama do its job by itself.
It happens ten-fold.
Naturally...
I miss our "OLD" money. :o(
Actually, in this case, it'll happen 20-fold!!!!!
I read somewhere, or maybe it's an urban myth, that if you deface the image of the Queen on the bill, then the money is no longer good. Didnt apply in this case!
I miss Canadian money. period.
Happy belated birthday, Flargy! A little bird told me.
I like the old-fashioned Canadian money. It brings back childhood memories. When ours was dull green theirs was colorful and pretty. Occasionally one would come through to us in the Pacific Northwest. I think Canadian money was usually accepted where I lived in southern Washington, at least the coins were.
When I was at school there were some siblings in the lower grades named “Dharma,” “Love,” and “Salaam” (peace?) (Their parents were hippies.) I imagine “Karma” was their rebellious older sister who one day turned up at the (now adult) Love’s house and proceeded to turn her life inside out.
One day Love returned home from her job at the non-profit center, and discovered Karma vigorously boinking her boyfriend: That was the last straw. Knowing how much her boyfriend (we’ll call him “Greg”) coveted his collection of old money, Love raced down stairs, snatched his prized antique $20, replaced it with a humdrum modern bill, and dashed off in a flood of tears to donate it.
Soon the entire family will know just how much of a bitch Karma is.
Sorry all, I guess I don't know how to spell "KHARMA" correctly.
Is it really spelled KARMA? Or KHARMA?
Anyone....?
You're fine, Holly. K-A-R-M-A
@Freonz: DUH! [why do you think I signed earlier as "Doofus"?] What I don't know, though, is whether currency printed today has updated portraits of HRH. This particular piece of currency dates from 1970, it looks like (from the date between the two signatures). On today's postage stamps the portraits do seem to be updated. What about currency printed today??
All that said, HRH was attractive as a younger woman.
I would keep a bill like this if it were in my pocession. I love the earlier pictures of Queen Elizabeth. I don't like our local Canadian Bank though here in the States. It's right next door to where I work and most people that bank there are maniacs on the road. I truly believe that all the bad drivers in my city bank there!
Farmer in the Dell. Bwahahaha.. $20 huh?
Doofus, I included you in the response only because you made first mention of the portrait. Though your screen name indicated that you more than likely knew the sitter's identity, there was the outside possiblity that you really had no idea.
A quick Google search reveals a much older and sterner E.R. II on the current Canadian $20 bill. http://tinyurl.com/6eex3b
Oooo, Canadian karma. Bad ju ju.
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I had to open another tab to see how to spell "scissors". I suck.
I can't believe someone hasn't chimed in with a non-sarcastic "My karma ran over your dogma". What's up with that?
Creepy.
That is HOT!!
I don't get it ... if you try to get back at someone by spending their collector 20, but you tell them so with a note written ON that 20, how will they ever see it?
Maybe they replaced the collector 20 with this one, to be found later?
It's an old Canadian 20, which the finder noted, too. So I think the note was written on it a long time ago, and just now given out, not intended FOR the charity.
When I first read it, I thought it was maybe a fued over an IOU and having exhausted their efforts at getting their money back themselves, they enlisted the help of a few others for added pressure.
What did Kyle do to piss off his dad this time?
Oooooh bad karma, a fundraising event.
Dear Canada,
Now you're getting the idea... tell Kyle and his dad that we say "HI".
Love,
America
PS- Still love ya like a sister!
Oh dear lord... Just the sight of this $20 brings back memories of working in a mall near the Canadian border. We accepted Canadian money (cash & check!), but gave change back in US dollars. I can't tell you how many times people remarked "I don't know how you people keep your money straight, it's all the same colour!" My response was always "Here in the US, we just read the number on the money to figure out what it's worth..." Yeah, I sucked at retail.
Heh-heh! Great story!
Reminds me of when I was waiting tables while in high school. One Sunday evening I was waiting on a large youth group from a local church. One of the adults with the group asked me why I was working on the Lord's day. I told him that if people didn't come out to eat on Sundays I wouldn't have to work. 8D No tip, didn't care.
Current UK notes have a more recent picture of Her Maj on them, but still somewhat glamorized.
And they took the picture of Edward Elgar off the back of the £20 note, in his 150th birthday year! So now we have Adam Smith instead. Shows what the Powers That Be think of our greatest composer.
The note appears to be missing it's serial numbers.
Error notes are worth big money to collectors.
Freonz:
Those type of people always piss me off! I used to work retail on the weekends including Sunday and would get those remarks all the time. Normally I would ignore them but occassionally I would reply with something like, "well if I didn't work you couldn't shop". Stupid hypocrites.
@ JACKRABBIT- Serial #'s are on the back.
If anyone cares...the original meaning of Karma (Buddhism or Hinduism?) is that ALL Karma was bad - there is no bad or good. Karma is just connections to the everyday - emotions, possessions, etc - that prevent enlightenment. So to transcend, you must achieve no Karma and then you will no longer be tied to this world.
Me, I would much rather have the karma, cuz it is more fun!!!
Marie, I'd rather have the $20.
I don't suppose any of my fellow Canucks here can remember what was on the back of the old $20 bill, can they? It's been bothering me... was it the logdrivers?
Anyone?
HAHA Farmer...I guess at least she's getting paid. My ex sluts around for free.
This remind me of a PostSecret. Like maybe the person who wrote on the bill was going to send it in, or did send it in...