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This morning I purchased a hundred pounds worth of tickets to the Nobles. The man at the ticket office waved a tenner and laughed that I had given him the wrong note. ”Look, 25+25+25+25=100, haha”, he repeated every time I opened my mouth. I could not believe that I would mistake ten pounds for a hundred, but if this was a scam, he would have had to be extremely fast and very experienced, so I gave him a hundred. Then I thought that if the mistake was mine, I would have made it before leaving my home, as all the smaller notes I could find were in my pocket for bakhshish, and everything in my bag should be from an ATM last night. I told the driver that I was not certain, but he was and he turned the car around and went to speak to the man. A few seconds later he returned to the car, asking for the tenner, which immediately was replaced with a hundred pounds.
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“He did not know that you live here”, he smiled, “but I told him that you are my neighbour!”
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