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August 03, 2005 |
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Two Flat Tires
FOUND by Tom Kraft
in Canada
On my way to the ski hill I had a flat, two blocks from my house. I couldn't get the flat off, I couldn't get the spare off. I paid $50 to tow it into the garage and have them fix it. They were done by 2:30.
I missed a day of superb skiing. At least, that's what everyone told me at the pub that night. I bought a beer and got this five dollar bill back in change. Guess I wasn't the only one getting flats.
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lovely and fortuitous even if flat tires are a pain.
Isn't it amazing, how even in small ways, the world has its little ways of telling you that you aren't alone?
love the addition of the word "mudder". its as if they wrote, "had a fukin bad day" then looked at it and thought, no it was worse than that.
see? things could always be worse!
i love this. this is perfect. the universe does let you know you aren't alone. Usually its not that obvious, tho. Fabulous find, Tom
now this is a way to get your little note or whatever found. write it on money? cause honestly, who passes up money when they see it/it's handed to them.
i used to write little saying on every bill that touched my hand. to see if it would come back to me, and to wonder who would read it.. i'm going to start doing that again soon actually.
now that i've written the above comment, i'm thinking, what a strange way to find your inspiration again.
I just thought the "mudder fukin" part was hilarious.
Michelle-you can track your money at www.wheresgeorge.com. You can get a stamp or write a note on the bill directing people to wheresgeorge.com. You log in the serial # and other people do the same when they get it. It keeps track of where the money travels, as long a people know to log it in. Give it a try.
I think the bartender/cocktail waitress at the pub wrote the note just to let Tom know that he wasn't the only one the Universe screwed that day.
where's george dot com is boring and pointless. Michelle said she wants to see if HER interesting sayings on HER dollars come back to HER hands.. not to find out if they migrated from the diner on fourth street to the gas station on main.
I also agree with cynic: someone who felt bad that Tom missed a killer day of skiing wrote this note and made sure he'd get it.. just so he'd feel better that someone else (even if fictitious) had it even worse than day than he.
that didn't make sense. interrupted during the edit phase. Lo siento: someone else had it even worse that day than he.
I have one of those Canadian five dollar bills hanging on my fridge. A friend of mine brought it back for me because I'm a hockey fan. What could be cooler than having pictures of hockey on your money? Naked ladies, I guess, but hockey would be good enough for me too.
Why can't the good ol US of A have interesting paper money? Why's it always gotta be the same old boring dead guys? Why not colorful fucschia, purple and electric blue with WWE wrestlers, monster trucks, NFL players, or folks like Madonna or Jennifer Aniston? Or maybe Bill Gates, Snoop Dogg, Bruce Springsteen.. Dr Seuss! Everyone's got cool money but US.
The UK £20 note used to have Sir Edward Elgar on it. This year (which is Elgar's 150th anniversary) they scrapped those and replaced him wih Adam Smith or someone. Indicative of how much the UK establishment cares about its cultural heritage.
And I got two flat tyres the other night so I thought of this Find and came back to find it!
Flargy- dude, I love that your friend brought you back canadian money as a souvenir. awesome.
see i read this first as '2 flat fires' - now that's a bad day when 2 apartments burn down!
i feel better for them now that it was 'only' flat tires!! :)
this looks like something that was ripped off the wall at the dingy dock pub on protection island off nanaimo. everyone should go there at least once in their life.
If I remember correctly, the scene of "children at play" on the $5 bill was designed by an elementary student from Beckwith, Ontario. It also includes a quote from the writer Roch Carrier (who wrote a wonderful book called The Hockey Sweater) "The winters of my childhood were long long seasons. We lived in three places - the school, the church, and the skating-rink - but our real life was on the skating rink."