The twenty and the five
A well-worn five-pound note and a similarly distressed twenty-pound note arrived at the Bank of England to be retired. As they moved along the conveyor belt to be burned, they struck up a conversation.
The twenty-pound bill mused: “I’ve had a pretty good life. Why I’ve been to London and Las Vegas and Hong Kong and even a cruise to the Caribbean.”
“Wow!” said the five-pound note. “You’ve really had an exciting time!” “So tell me,” says the twenty, “where have you been?”
The five-pound note replied, “Oh, I’ve been to the Methodist Church, the Baptist Church, the Anglican Church, and once even to the United Reform Church…”
The twenty-pound note interrupted, “What’s a church?”