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To the guy who picked up the dollar bill I dropped:

babelfishbabelfish Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in PAX Archive
Asshole!


The (brief) story: Some friends and I had just eaten at the fourth floor subway and were leaning over the balcony above the escalators. One of them wondered what would happen if he dropped his soda -- wondered how people would respond and how big the splash would be. I did one better. I pulled a dollar bill from my pocket and said, "I wonder what would happen if I dropped this?" Without much further ado, I folded it in half (hot dog, baby!) and dropped it down, and it floated down two storeys to the ground. A few guys stood there just looking at it for a moment, then someone came running up from about fifteen feet away, screaming, "MONEEEEYYY!"

It was hilarious. At the same time, I'm kind of depressed, because he didn't look up to see if someone had accidentally dropped it! :(

(Not that it was an accident. It was a... social experiment, if you will. Or just a good use of a dollar for laughs.)

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  • JeTmAnJeTmAn Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Haha. My girlfriend found $21 near the bathroom by the main exhibition hall. She bought me a JoCo t-shirt with it :P

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  • PsychoishPsychoish Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm starting to wonder if I knew that someone, since it seems like something my friends would do. :P

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  • zyphlarzyphlar Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I gave out a dollar to the first person who found me on pictochat :)
    But then I grabbed a dollar on the expo hall floor that appeared to be forgotten and unnoticed.

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  • Batman24079Batman24079 Registered User new member
    edited September 2008
    I found a dollar on the bottom of an escalator but I assume it wasn't yours because I did not run up and yell "MONEY" and run off. I was going down the escalator saw a dollar and grabbed it then walked off with my friends. If it was, sorry but nobody around seemed to have dropped anything and it ended up going to the cookie brigade anyway.

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  • FerquinFerquin Snorlax Renton, WA, USARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I found a quarter next to one of the Sumo bags. It was heads up. Does that I mean I get good luck for the next 25 days?

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  • PsychoishPsychoish Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ferquin wrote: »
    I found a quarter next to one of the Sumo bags. It was heads up. Does that I mean I get good luck for the next 25 days?

    I'll bet you a quarter it was mine.

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  • FerquinFerquin Snorlax Renton, WA, USARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I already won that bet before you proposed it.

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  • CervetusCervetus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The most I saw was a nickel, and I just left it. Maybe next year I'll leave a dollar somewhere just to contribute to PAX.

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  • firewallenderfirewallender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I found a swag tshirt in the hallway o'stench.

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  • Raptor007Raptor007 Seattle, WA, USARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Psychoish wrote: »
    I'm starting to wonder if I knew that someone, since it seems like something my friends would do. :P

    It sounds like my buddy Phillip, but he was an Enforcer this year. Was it an Enforcer that grabbed your buck?

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  • DJBreslinDJBreslin Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    There were several pennies surrounding a toilet in the BYOC mens bathroom. I was wondering how long they would remain there. I sure wasn't going to pick them up. They were gone after a couple hours. Another social experiment?

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  • RandomfoolRandomfool loofmodnar Rochester, NYRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Best I found was an MSN game button.

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  • GeneralsGenerals Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Try being a Vendor at an anime convention and then yelling "Free Stuff" and rolling a plushie on the ground. The outcome can be very amusing and generates more laughs than any ethnic jokes

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    jsn: and there was some dude(note that: DUDE) dressed up as Mai from KOF
    Jeff: I see
    jsn: and I was like "I wonder how he goes to the washroom, does he just like...brush his loincloth to the side or what?"
    jsn: friend was like "DUDE he's BEHIND YOU"
  • KrnDoxyKrnDoxy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh my god, I wish I had seen that! I would have seriously started rofling all over the floor.

    No money found, but I got the full 5-dvd set of PAX 2007 and a full MTG deck for free. It's amazing what happens when you go to the exhibition hall on the last hour of Sunday.

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  • babelfishbabelfish Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Raptor007 wrote: »
    Psychoish wrote: »
    I'm starting to wonder if I knew that someone, since it seems like something my friends would do. :P

    It sounds like my buddy Phillip, but he was an Enforcer this year. Was it an Enforcer that grabbed your buck?

    Nah, guy had an orange shirt. (Faded orange.)
    Generals wrote: »
    Try being a Vendor at an anime convention and then yelling "Free Stuff" and rolling a plushie on the ground. The outcome can be very amusing and generates more laughs than any ethnic jokes

    OMG, that sounds amazing!

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  • Solid_SteveSolid_Steve Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Last year I actually found a Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin cart lying on the ground about 20 feet away from the bandland booths. I looked around to see if anyone had dropped it, had a DS out, etc. but I didn't see anyone. I held on to it, and played it. It's a cool game. If any of you lost it last year, I'll see if I can get it back to you some time. I think I deleted one save file, but I can check names on the other ones.

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  • Soda241Soda241 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I found 20$ in the table top year, I was there for a few hours after i found it see if someone was going to come and look for it no one did D:

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  • leafleaf Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I found 15 cents while stumbling my way back to a friends place after a night of drinking and things.

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