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OK, for those of you who don't know, my company's stores all have an automatic payment machine (I've never ranted about it, just the people who use it).
You punch in your phone number and password, it tells you how much you owe, and you put the cash in (or use a check). All the cash is put into a "box" stacked "neatly".
Years of counting out these machines, nightly numbers sometimes exceeding what a nice car would cost (in cash) you notice some trends and you can usually guess who was at the payment machine that day, sometimes when they were in, especially if you know your clientel.
A "stack" is usually a significant amount. Something like 30-40 $1s or $5s would be a stack, but only 5-10 $100s would be a stack. Yes, a lot of this is guesswork, but you can sometimes tell what money was put in at the same time.
A stack of $1s mostly crumpled: Usually a local waitress, stripper, or homeless person / panhandler
A stack of $5s mostly crumpled: Usually a good waitress or a good stripper
A stack of $10s mostly crumpled: One hell of a stripper! (I don't want to know where they've been)
A large stack of $5s (we're talking $150-$400 in $5s): Pot dealer
A mixed stack of $10s and $20s - either crack of ecstacy dealer it could also be a local prostitute.
A stack of $20s ($500-$1,000)- crack or coke dealer
A stack of crisp $100s, often in sequential order by serial number: Coke distributor (and I don't mean the soda)
2-3 $1 bills : Someone who shouldn't have a cell phone (usually they mad change and they put in just enough to get the phone back on but need money for the cab ride home)
A bill with one of those "where's George" stamps - someone who has way too much time on their hands (or someone had the bill before them had too much time on their hands)
You punch in your phone number and password, it tells you how much you owe, and you put the cash in (or use a check). All the cash is put into a "box" stacked "neatly".
Years of counting out these machines, nightly numbers sometimes exceeding what a nice car would cost (in cash) you notice some trends and you can usually guess who was at the payment machine that day, sometimes when they were in, especially if you know your clientel.
A "stack" is usually a significant amount. Something like 30-40 $1s or $5s would be a stack, but only 5-10 $100s would be a stack. Yes, a lot of this is guesswork, but you can sometimes tell what money was put in at the same time.
A stack of $1s mostly crumpled: Usually a local waitress, stripper, or homeless person / panhandler
A stack of $5s mostly crumpled: Usually a good waitress or a good stripper
A stack of $10s mostly crumpled: One hell of a stripper! (I don't want to know where they've been)
A large stack of $5s (we're talking $150-$400 in $5s): Pot dealer
A mixed stack of $10s and $20s - either crack of ecstacy dealer it could also be a local prostitute.
A stack of $20s ($500-$1,000)- crack or coke dealer
A stack of crisp $100s, often in sequential order by serial number: Coke distributor (and I don't mean the soda)
2-3 $1 bills : Someone who shouldn't have a cell phone (usually they mad change and they put in just enough to get the phone back on but need money for the cab ride home)
A bill with one of those "where's George" stamps - someone who has way too much time on their hands (or someone had the bill before them had too much time on their hands)
And I have $76 dollars of handwritten bills sitting on my keyboard at this exact second.
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