An attractive man came into the shop the other day. He paid for his goods with two $100 bills. I commented that we don't see many of them. Mostly people pay in cash up to $50 notes and above that they use cards. He explained that he always carries $100 notes so that when he gets stopped for speeding, he can bribe the police. He demonstrated to me how it's best to always have a $100 note folded under your drivers license for when you get stopped. You hand the license to the police officer with the bill. If they take it, you're good. If they refuse it you make excuses that it accidentally came out with the bill. Clearly he was well practised.
I made a suggestion. 'Have you tried not speeding?' He looked at genuinely perplexed. He told me 'You can't not speed.'
He was a much less attactive man when he left.
Funny how attractiveness starts with what you see but can very easily be diminished by what you hear (and vice versa), but at least you learnt how to be a smooth operator on the bribe front.
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