When one of the executives of our company was up visiting our plant from the States this week, he asked for fifty loonies. It was thought to be an odd request, and our controller confirmed with him, "5-0? You want fifty loonies?" He said yes, so she relayed the request to the woman in charge of petty cash.
We were all a bit confused. Did he want them as souvenirs? Or maybe for the vending machines? Doesn't matter - he's the boss, so what he wants he gets. They went to the bank and took out two rolls of loonies.
When he was presented with the two rolls, however, he looked at them in surprise and said, "What am I supposed to do with these? How am I supposed to carry this around?" He was told that he asked for fifty loonies and we were giving him fifty loonies. His response?
"I wanted fifty loonies - isn't that what your dollar is called up here?"
. . . Oh, Americans.
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