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History:
Five dollars from Brent: Brent and I are both pretty avid baseball fans. Although I generally root for the Braves, I watch the sport in general. Brent has a definite preference for the Seattle Mariners, which is pretty typical since he grew up in the area (Seattle). We often have all kinds of debates about the viability of different players… if Griffey is truly as great as the Seattle fans make him out to be, etc. It was two years ago when there was that race to see if someone would beat Roger Maris's record for homeruns in a season. The most viable contenders were McGwire, Sosa, and Griffey. At the time, Griffey was starting to lag considerably and I made the comment that he wasn't going to do it. Brent replies, "I'll bet you five bucks that he'll hit two homers the next game…" He didn't make the same bet again.Five dollars from Scott: Now, Scott and I get into a number of debates… from the usage of the words pop and soda to what makes a baseball pitcher more noteworthy. I remember chatting with Scott about movies one night. I forget precisely how it was that we started talking about Alicia Silverstone, but we did. I was mentioning that Silverstone was about fourteen when she starred in The Crush. I distinctly remember seeing it years before Clueless was released, I also seem to remember her being about seventeen or eighteen at the time. To me, it seemed fairly obvious that Clueless was released before The Crush. Scott seemed to disagree; in fact, he bet five dollars that he was right. I have an exceptional memory; as a general rule, people should not bet against it.
One dollar from Ted: Ted has a hell of a mind; he really does. We were roommates in college and were both engineering students at the same time. We once argued about who did better on a statics exam. I scored a 100% when he scored a 97%. He was trying to convince me that the professor should not have deducted points of for his reversing the sign on a vector. For some time we were very competitive. There was one night when we were chatting on the phone and we both tune to watch the same movie, Backdraft. We had both seen the movie before and he offhandedly mentions that Donald Sutherland plays the villain in the movie, to which I argued that it was, in fact, Scott Glenn. Of course, we went through the array of "You're wrong!" accusations followed by brief explanations. Ted finally said, "I'll bet you a dollar!" Naturally, I was right. He didn't pay me the money. In fact I didn't get the dollar until I asked to borrow a dollar, to which I promptly replied, "Ha!" I kept it; I have tangile proof that I have bested Ted in at least one thing.
One dollar from Tootsie's in Miami: To make a long story short, this was a $1 tip… for doing a striptease. No, I'm not making this up! I could elaborate on this, but you can just read the journal entry.
I don't plan on spending any of these bills, they just sit either at work or in my wallet as a reminder. Reminder of not only my friends, but also those particular moments I spent with them. Pragmatically, it is just money. It's twelve dollars, pure and simple, but ideally, they're more than that.
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April 13, 2000