Someone told me recently that the top four most pleasurable things in life were (in no particular order): sleeping, eating, sex, and counting money. I was surprised that “counting money” should be on that list, let alone so high. I had to admit to myself that I do love to sit around and count my money, especially bills, although it would never have occured to me to list it as a pleasurable activity. Do they really call bills “notes” in the UK? I’m thinking of that movie where Ian McKellen has a crush on that Canadian boy from Beverly Hills 90120. He muses that in American restaurants, you ask for the check and pay with bills while in England you ask for the bill and pay with a check. OK, so I guess this little anecdote has nothing to do with notes. And the more I think about it, it’s a false opposition between UK and US because I pay my bills with checks too. Although not in a restaurant. At one point I did pay my bills in a restaurant, but that was more of a coffeeshop. I sat there and went through my bills, writing out the checks and addressing the envelopes. It would have been too boring to do so at home, I guess. These days such an activity would transgress my sense of the proper division between public and private.
But you can legitimately call paper money “bills” or “notes,” right? “Notes,” as in “banknotes.”
Just now I was counting my money and I got up to $50 in my count. By a great miracle of modern science, the $1 bill that I counted as #50 had the number “50″ written on its face. I had a note on my bill! But from who? I need to check that out.
this is a post i would have liked to write! it meanders but never gets lost. i am not lost, after reading it, though i got shocked to read that you were paying bills in the coffee shop until i read that you don’t do that any more. handling bills in a coffee shop is no different from handling nail clippings, i believe. i also believe that you probably concur.
i don’t groom in public but sometimes i do. it depends on what counts as grooming. does restoring proper fit to one’s underwear count as grooming? my underwear gets out of sinc with my body sometimes and it needs to be realligned.
i bill my checks on notes. i note my bills on checks. i check my notes on bills. i bill the motes on hills. i hill and bill and kill.
Do the four most pleasurable things go up the list if done in tandem?
ha. that’s a good question, DC. what do you say, li’l pony?
seriously, though, apart from eating and counting money, perhaps, i don’t see how one could combine the pleasures li’l pony lists….
If sleeping on a bed of dollars counts as sleeping and counting money, then I think we just may have a chance. Further research is required. Let me get back to you.
I’m counting my money a lot more these days…. hahahahahaha (laugh like greedy scrooge). But because I have to pay for more things.