Hay

The young man was withdrawing twenty dollars from the ATM when he spotted it.

His remaining bank balance looked wrong. He knew he wasn’t that good with numbers, but it looked much too high. He reckoned that he should have around $120 in his account, not $766.34. When he got home, he went on line and checked. It appeared to be right, but he saw that a credit of $642.19, an odd amount, had been deposited overnight, bringing his balance to $766.34! He stared at the screen. He figured that it was some kind of error and the bank would correct it. For now, he would wait and see. He would check tomorrow and would likely see that it had been removed, along with an email of explanation and an apology from the bank. However, that didn’t happen. In fact, when he opened his account, he found that a further $642.19 had been added.

It soon became apparent that these strange deposits were going to continue to occur on a daily basis. After several months of this, with his bank balance nudging $200,000, he decided to make hay, while the sun shone. With this in mind, he quit his job at the scrap yard, bought himself a very nice suit along with several new outfits, a brand-new sports car and a two-week round-the-world cruise.

On his return, he found a letter from the bank was waiting for him. It was several days old and contained an apology for the clerical error. Noting that the mistake was not of his doing, the bank was happy to accept the repayments in moieties.

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