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Volume 47 · Richard WelsherForeign currency story
Richard Welsher asks, What is the most foreign currency you ever got ‘stuck with’ and ended up bringing home?
I’m not sure what the answer to that is, but I do have an interesting story about it. When I came home from a trip to Ethiopia, I arrived at the Minneapolis airport and got a taxi. My taxi driver was Ethiopian, and I started a discussion with him about where I had just been.
I had a bunch of leftover Ethiopian birr, their currency. I asked him when he was next going to Ethiopia. He said about six months, so I gave him all my leftover birr as a tip for his next trip.
I figured it was a pretty efficient exchange. I couldn’t use it, he could, and the value was more than what he otherwise would have gotten for a tip.
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