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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by CanadianCabbage@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I vaguely recall this happening as a joke in some form of media but all I'm getting are statistics about currency being contaminated with cocaine when searching for it online.


Edit: My dad wants to buy scuba equipment but doesn't know where to buy it or what size he is for a lot of it so I was going to write "For scuba equipment not for drugs" on one of the bills as a joke for his Christmas present.

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[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 129 points 6 months ago

Not sure where it's from but I've received a bill like that from someone I really cared about a long time ago when I had a bit of a serious drinking problem. I was also homeless at the time.

The $20 bill said, "Not for alcohol," on it. And the look in their eyes pleaded, "please."

When I was at the liquor store that evening and I went to pay I didn't have enough unless I spent that $20. I picked something different and used that money for food that night.

I'd like to say that was the first step in me getting sober but it was a few years later when I finally quit drinking.

6 years sober now.

I really wish I could remember their face.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Really glad it sounds like you're doing better. Good job, Gormadt.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago

Such a good story! Glad you’re doing well.

[-] ____@infosec.pub 8 points 6 months ago

So good to hear you’re doing better.

[-] omawarisan@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You may be thinking of Scarface. When Tony Montana exchanges dollars for pesos 🤷‍♂️

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago

Searching online points to the movie Drillbit Taylor maybe being where this came from, but I have not seen it to confirm.

[-] CanadianCabbage@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I think that might be it! I definitely saw that movie a few years ago.

Nice detective work

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Could be related to the Aussie movie Two Hands, where some drug money has a picture of a gun drawn on it? Only one I can think of right now where money has somat written on it.

That and the tooth fairy sticker on the fiver in that Bluey episode, I guess.

[-] M137@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago
[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Makes perfect sense to me

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Weak stomach.

[-] CanadianCabbage@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Fair enough. It's a bit of a weird wordy situation to explain

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