# What's the most cash you've carried alone and in public? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 3, 2007, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669 "2007-05-03T21:24:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669/41 "2007-05-04T13:23:02Z")
Back in the '70s, when I worked a few summers at the Canadian National Exhibition, once I was tapped to accompany a cashier from a park entrance gate to the bank on the premises, carrying part of a day’s receipts. I don’t know the exact amount, but it was near $50,000. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669/42 "2007-05-04T13:32:10Z")
One morning I came into work and the first thing the chief jailer told me was that someone had paid their bail of $20,000 in cash. It was in a plastic grocery sack and I took it to the bank still in the sack (after I had counted it, of course.) I would have asked for a deputy to escort me but the bank was less than a mile away and I was driving a Sheriff’s department car. I was just a trifle nervous, though. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669/43 "2007-05-04T13:33:25Z")
During my sophomore year in college the owner of the restaurant I worked in was looking to expand. He made an offer to a gentleman who owned a building that was part convenience store/grocery part seafood market part illegal betting parlor (the owner/operator ran numbers). The agreement was “You can buy my building, but only for cash. I don’t take checks for anything.” I was the lucky guy who got to carry the downpayment. It was about $30,000 in cash, carried in a gym bag ($10s, $20s, and 50s - he wouldn’t take anything bigger than that). I walked in, handed Barefoot (what a great name for a shady character, eh?) the gym bag and he said, “You won’t be wanting a receipt, right?” ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669/44 "2007-05-04T14:04:17Z")
Of my own personal cash, about $2000, buying a computer. For work, probably 15 or 16000, depositing into the bank. Edit - I’ve actually had the deposits for two stores at once… maybe 22 to 25000 total. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669/45 "2007-05-04T15:24:59Z")
$36,000.00 A summer job while I was in college was with a small finance company and all the tellers had cashed out their drawers. It was 7pm and I was about to go home when a client came in to pay off his brand new Corvette for cash. The manager demanded that I take the cash and reciept it out of my personal reciept book. As I was personally responsible for that money, I sealed it inside an envelope and it didn’t leave my side until it was logged into the cash drawer the next day (shower not withstanding). ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669/46 "2007-05-04T15:35:11Z")
Of my own, about $1200. Of my employer’s, anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000. I’m another who did the “walk to the bank” many times when I worked retail. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669/47 "2007-05-04T16:56:55Z")
Probably about $3000 - in wrapped quarters, nickels, and dimes - to the bank. (My father had vending machines). ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669/48 "2007-05-04T19:18:26Z")
Personally, the most I have ever carried was about $1800 in wrapped coins I had saved up over a few years. I went to several different banks to exchange it for paper money. For work, I used to be a manager for fast food and I would often drop off the nightly deposit, which at times was as high as $3,000. I had often heard stories about robbers lurking in the shrubbery or around the corner and mugging people, so I was always on the lookout for these types of thugs. Fortunately I never had any such experiences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-cash-youve-carried-alone-and-in-public/402669.md?page=2)