martakartus

I was at my Uni. There weren't any classes that day but I had to attend to a couple of compulsory seminars. At the entrance of the lecture room were two people handing out small pieces of paper with either the word YES or NO written in them. These were the answers to a question similar to "will you stay until the seminar finishes?". When I went past one of the men handing out these pieces of paper, he only had some of the YES left but none of the NO, so I had no choice. I planned on staying for the whole seminar anyway, but he said "sorry" and handed me a YES piece of paper with a 20-euro bill under it. I pretended I didn't notice in case it was a mistake, but I had the feeling he was trying to bribe me.

After this, my classmates and I entered the lecture room, which pretty much looked like a theatre. We stayed for the whole seminar and, when we were going out, I noticed something in my hand. I looked at it to find two 10-euro bills, which had basically come out of the blue. I reached for my pocket to find the previous 20 euros I had been given and felt the bills in my hand. They felt like real money. I was amazed at how much money I had made out of nothing.