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[themadone]

Somehow managed to get a dodgy old fiver over the weekend. Managed to ditch in Budgens cos unlike Tescos (who told it me it was dodgy and old) they don't pay attention to such details.

Managed to stagger up to battle practice in time to watch izzy_stradlin try out her new shiny dirk. Managed to miss her trying to get her thumb chopped off tho. Pub lunch was crap in that it didn't happen. Stupid pub was short staffed and so wasn't doing food. Ended up having a mad dash around Tescos getting stuff.

Didn't get around to playing old computer games like I'd wanted to - ended up playing The Sims (PS2) a lot instead. I can't wait for The Sims 2 to come out - hopefully I'll have my new PC by then.

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[charliemouse.livejournal.com]

Damn! If you ever come across another one, I'll buy it from you. Been looking for an old fiver.

BTW, all notes are legal tender, and remain so forever. However a shop can refuse to accept any money they want, but a bank should change it. This is not the case for coins.

[themadone.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well Tescos refused it. Budgens didn't. Not that the person on the til gave it much of a glance except to see what denomination it was.

You should have said you were collecting old notes though...

[charliemouse.livejournal.com]

Shops can refuse any transaction they want, but a £5 note is always worth £5 because of the 'I promise to pay the bearer on demand..." bit. Coins don't have that, so aren't covered by the same rules and can expire. So old 5p and 10p pieces are worthless (unless they're really old and have silver in them).

I much prefer the old £5 note because the current one has the world's ugliest woman on it.