I picture a group of young musicians or dancers oohing and aahing over a suitcase full of banknotes.
BTW, many decades ago I was friends with a band of wholesale marijuana dealers. They told me that trades were made with “Grovers” rather than “Benjamins.” (I’ve never even seen a Grover, though I possessed a McKinley once.)
An article from two days ago:
I once saw a McKinley. I was working front desk in a Holiday Inn and a businessman spending several weeks paid with one. It cause problems when I closed out the register because I couldn’t leave the usual amount of money the register required.
I heard it was $100 dollar bills.
I have consulted for two casinos, but oddly I don’t gamble- which they liked. (I used to play poker, but for quarter ante, dollar limit). But yeah, that sound is great.
I was stuck in vegas for a few days during a convention, a decade+ ago, and found that the wedges & ledges machines- rare then, gone now- became a game of skill once you saw how precipitous the ledges were. I could win , but only a handful of quarters, so nothing big time- until one quarter went through the tiny target hole, and it paid out 1000-1- which is only $250, but in quarters that sounds like BIG MONEY. I had a small crowd and everything. I then cashed them in and quit.
No, they have them, and sometimes the cost is tiny.
Yeah, my wife just refused the licked cash during that period- but she is not allowed to anymore. People dont even think while they do it.
And two dollar bills.
You certainly can in the USA, but not at all locations. One Revenue Officer invited me in to watch and help- some guy who thought he was being smart paid off a some $5000 tax bill in ones. He thought that was gonna be a big yuck until they explained he was gonna have to sit there and watch until they counted the bills and it came out to the right amount twice in a row. It took about three hours. he even got a parking ticket for his trouble.
I personally saw somebody pay $3000 in cash for some antiques, I couldn’t help wondering who carries that kind of money.
Nobody has ever said anything about me paying cash for something.
I smoke weed. While I do like the convenience of using my card, currently I have 237 dollars in my wallet.
We are preppers. We have been through times of no internet county wide (once for three days). We know that when the interwebs are down, nobody can take plastic so if you want beer, you better have cash. There is a thousand dollars of just-in-case money in the gun safe.
I give panhandlers cash. I don’t care that they are going to spend it on drugs or booze, that’s what I would do with it if I didn’t give it away. Hubs likes to tip cash at restaurants and we both enjoy buying food from local growers. My friend with chickens doesn’t take venmo, she wants her three bucks a dozen in cash. We still use a lot of cash, but we do live in the country so not as many folks take plastic.
Ime, it depends on the gift card. A (name of store I work for) can be purchased with credit/ debit. I think, though I’ve never actually sold one, this also applies to for instance Chili’s gift card. However, a “Visa gift card” or any other gift card that functions like a debit card must be paid for with cash. The same applied to money orders when we still sold them. It’s otherwise considered money laundering.
She needs to up her egg prices!
Was his first name Arnold? Cause if so, he did that until he retired and then would go to the bank monthly and get 400 in $2 bills. Sadly, he passed away a couple of years ago. His wife buried him with 50 $2 bills in his pocket.
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This thread really blew the * bleep * up!
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I will respond to some posts. But I’m going to gamble some more first!
I usually bring half my cash to Vegas in $50 bills. I like to freak out gamblers and they don’t bother me.
I believe this is the oddest, most involved stealth brag I’ve encountered in recent memory. I’ve got nothing against the OP, but “Benjamins”? “Chile”? I’ve never encountered people being weird about cash, and not sure what your “fat wallet” has to do with it.
TITO is a common way of abbreviating ticket in, ticket out, but no one says,’TITO’ like they’re pronouncing the former dictator of Yugoslavia’s last name.
‘Do you prefer TITO or coin droppers?’ could be a thread title on a slot machine related message board.
Well, this degenerate thinks of vodka when Tito’s is mentioned.
I wasn’t clear enough . I never heard anything called either TITO or ticket in ticket out. And I’m certainly not going to say it doesn’t appear on slot machine related message boards - but from what you say, it sounds like TITO and coin droppers are two different types of slot machine ( or at least two different types of caino games, if coin dropper means the same thing as coin pusher)
But this line in the OP
When I inserted my ticket into the TITO kiosk, that SOB spat out $759 worth of 1s/5s/20s
appears to be calling the ticket redemption machine the TITO kiosk when it’s actually Ticket In, Cash Out. I certainly can’t say that people in the business don’t use that expression or that degenerate gamblers 
don’t - but this isn’t a slot machine message board and the OP shouldn’t expect people to understand that sort of abbreviation. Especially since you and the OP seem to be using it differently ( I think)
TITO refers to slot machines. The OP conflates the ATM/Ticket Redemption machine with the slot term. The slot machine accepts payout tickets from other machines, which it records just like cash.
Cash. 100 percent down. Nothing the rest of my life.
My country when through a period of hyperinflation in the mid-'80s, when I was just a little kid, and ever since then I’ve distrusted cash. It got better here after that, but growing up, I’ve always seen cash as something that loses value the moment you put it into your wallet. So naturally, I’m very happy with this modern cashless world.
But wouldn’t your money lose just as much value if it sat in your bank account and you used some other method to spend it?
First of all, I was just a kid at the time. Someone gave me money, I spent it right away or I lost it.
Second of all, bold of you to assume that anyone back then had money in the bank. Everyone had debt, because why the hell not?
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