Bost Bucks

In my 10th grade science class I had a teacher named Mrs. Bost. She had this classroom
money she called Bost Bucks which she would hand out when you did your homework.
They were printed on green paper and you could buy candy or extra credit with them.
Naturally you needed to save them for extra credit, and doing homework takes way too
long, so I decided to help out the class. I went door-to-door at the school until I found a
classroom that had the right shade of green paper. I then proceeded to the school Library where
there was a 10-cent copier. I placed all my Bost Bucks on the copier and printed sheet after sheet of
these things on the green paper. Now of course they were not perfect copies, so I had to get creative.
I crumpled up the copies and then flatened them out so they would be wrinkled. As if they just came
out of someone's backpack or pencil pouch.  I then handed them out to the class free of charge and
in effect tripled the Bost Buck currency in the classroom.  Now that everyone had some "dough"
I needed to focus on creating some competition for Mrs. Bost's Bost Buck Candy Store monopoly.
I began offering handfuls of candy left over from Halloween for half of what Mrs. Bost charged for
2 small pieces. At the end of the semester, Mrs. Bost did finally catch on when everyone never ran out
of Bost Bucks and had to modify the currency design for every semester afterward. Not like more copies
can't be made though....   >:-)
 

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