Due to its declining value, U. S. Treasury Department eliminites one-dollar bill.

Written by Eeek
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Photo submitted by I remember when I bought my last loaf of bread. I was in the express line at Safeway, thumbing through a National Enquirer I plucked off the rack, when the cashier called out “Fourteen dollars and seventy two cents.” “For a loaf of bread?” I asked. “It's a deal,” she said. “The price is going up tomorrow.” I opened my wallet to take out my credit card. A dollar bill fell out, and floated slowly toward the floor. I considered bending down to pick it up, but that's a lot of wear and tear on the knees. And it was only a dollar. Better to leave it there. Maybe some little kid would find it, and buy herself a piece of gum. I bet the Enquirer was right when it wrote the Mint was going to stop printing dollar bills. A dollar is hardly worth the paper it's printed on these days. I'm not so sure, though, about the other front page story, the one about the space aliens. Did they really all have affairs with John Edwards? Maybe they did, but is it really true that he paid them off with hair gel? What would they want with hair gel, when they don't even have any hair? Maybe the aliens would like our old dollar bills. They can use them to line their love nests.