people who casually deal in big quantities of cash freak me out. ive done just a handful of agriculture equipment deals for cash-in-hand and despite the totally reasonable circumstances, everybody more-or-less knowing everybody, it felt weird counting out hundos and exchanging a wad.

i knew this guy who was selling bugs he caught to a guy with an online shop. like a lot of bugs. it was a few thousand dollars worth. obviously everyone in this exchange is already a weirdo, but the buyer pulls out this insane roll to pay, all in cash. everything worked out, but i would've had a knot in my stomach the whole time.

every time i see a pile of cash (like more than $1k), i just assume ive walked into some kinda jackpot and we're all about to get rolled for it and whatever's in our pockets.

i never carry more than like $40-50 on me. shit makes me nervous.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Tech bro brain is something to behold. However terrible their ideas are - their answer to "What could go wrong?" is "Nothing!"

We'll send bags of cash right to people's homes!

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My partner had a family friend who moved to Australia and needed our help to get their money out of their account and move it to another account. We had to go around town and pull money from ATMs for like two weeks so my partner could then send it via Western Union to them. We went to HyVee or Kroger or whatever it was down the road from where we lived with this $6000 wad of cash and asked to send it. The clerk behind the counter about jumped out of her skin and called security, and two big guys in uniforms promptly stood around us eyeballing everyone who came within 5 feet of us while the clerk counted and stashed the cash. It was surreal. Up until that point it never dawned on me just how dangerous it was to do what we were doing.