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Where’s George?
Jun 27, 2007(0)
A few weeks ago I went out for some Ice Cream with my family to a Chicagoland favorite called Oberweis Dairy (Great milk btw, free of growth hormones, better for the kids). Anyhow, I never typically carry cash with me but in an effort to rid myself from what is perhaps one of the worst evils in the world (i.e. credit cards), I’ve started carrying cash more often. As such, I received change back after paying for our yummy treats. (BTW, what ever happened to the art of giving back change? Now they just hand it back in a handful and rarely even say anything, but that’s a different story). As I received my change I noticed a stamp on one of the singles that said Track this bill at wheresgeorge.com. This piqued my interest and I had to check it out to see what this was all about. I created an account on the site and entered the serial number in as directed and that was pretty much it. It was deleted from my mental hard-drive in a few moments, likely replaced with a line from The Office or it was interrupted with an impromtu musical that my eldest daughter writes on the spot, “...my daddy is the greatest daddy in the whole world, look at me and not your computer daddy…”.
So, you can imagine my excitement when I received an email a couple weeks later that said that my bill had been traveling around the country and had made the journey from Illinois to North Carolina. The cool thing is that I will receive an email everytime somebody registers the bill on the wheresgeorge.com website. It reminds me of the times as a child when I would attach a note to a helium balloon and wait with baited breath to see how far the balloon got. I don’t think I ever got a reply. I imagine the kid that found it lived a few streets over and felt that it wouldn’t be too impressive to send the 3×5 card back to me on the pre-stamped envelope that I included when he could just walk it over. At any rate, here’s the link to my bill.