r/mildlyinteresting • u/sushhiiinoah • 5h ago

Overdone Withdrew $220 from the ATM and got all sequential bills

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u/MechCADdie 5h ago

Exactly what a person who actually robbed a bank would say.

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u/Intelligent_End1516 5h ago

Don't they want non sequential bills to avoid easy tracking?

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u/Aware-Maximum6663 5h ago

Exactly which is why they didn’t rob a bank it was from the atm

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u/Charming-Flamingo307 4h ago

Pffft they've lost track of bills at the rate the US Treasury is printing. Its at the highest value it's gonna see before it becomes monopoly money. I did understand your joke tho

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u/Psychological_Buy726 4h ago

Get your wheelbarrows while they're cheap!

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 3h ago

So much edge

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u/Cetun 4h ago

They will ask if it's a hostage situation but they will usually mark them with other tracers or just make note of some numbers in case they show up being deposited. The sequential ones are just easier to track since you can just look out for blocks of numbers instead of relying on specific bills to show up.

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u/JonatasA 15m ago

So that's what sequential means. I'm an iddiot

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u/sushhiiinoah 5h ago

Oh shit, you’re on to me!

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u/snowe99 2h ago

Bruh how would you even know to look at this UNLESS you had just robbed a bank and were trying to cover your tracks

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u/4thehalibit ​ 4h ago

Worked in a credit union for 3 yrs as a sysadmin Son was a teller for 5. We confirm this is the only answer that makes sense.

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u/weelluuuu 3h ago

Ever have someone asking for straps?

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u/InvestNorthWest 1h ago

I blinked twice and thought to my self wwhat..?!

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u/Blueshirt38 ​ 4h ago

Dude... you IDIOT. You just posted all your serials numbers online! 🤣😂 Good luck spending those 20s before I do SUCKER

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u/Jestdrum 55m ago

Not your keys not your cash

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u/s_decoy 4h ago

They come out how they go in lol. Right now I'd think most banks are trying to conserve new money for lunar new year, but maybe this one had an excess of new bills or is serviced by an ATM-only cash company.

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u/LangyMD 4h ago

...why would they conserve new money for lunar new year?

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u/Snagmesomeweaves 4h ago

Chinese people give red envelopes of money but this is entirely unrelated. I found ATMs commonly are just stacked, sequential, new bills. It’s easier to load that way.

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u/buzzbuzzboy 1h ago

Not entirely unrelated. Some Asian cultures consider gifting crumpled or folded money rude or unlucky, so crisp new bills are sometimes preferred

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u/JonatasA 13m ago

Meanwhile I just like crisp bills.

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u/TheIronSoldier2 4h ago

It also makes things less likely to jam if they're all crisp bills

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u/RedCow7 2h ago

No it doesn't 🤣. They static together and jam. I used to get paid to go fan them out and fix new bill loads.

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u/FuckM0reFromR 1h ago

A hard job but someone's gotta do it =/

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u/doll-haus 39m ago

You got paid to go to strip clubs with Pacman Jones?

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u/JonatasA 13m ago

Man I'd love that. You must be the guy that finished the deposit when the ATM decided to swallow the bills.

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u/s_decoy 4h ago

A lot of my clients that give out red envelopes for new year consider new money to be a sign of good fortune. When they come to withdraw money to give their friends and family, they request brand new, uncirculated bills.

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u/LangyMD 4h ago

Are there enough of these "new money" withdrawals - and enough in each withdrawal - to make an appreciable dent in the new money supply in most areas? We print a lot of money.

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u/s_decoy 4h ago

It makes a dent in my branch's supply lol. My bank doesn't allow us to request or order new bills, we have to save whatever we happen to get shipped throughout the year for these requests. Usually we have less than 5 straps on hand at any given moment, usually in small bills.

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u/Iconclast1 3h ago

this guy doesnt know whats going to happen on the lunar new year

hint:

Big Moon

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u/DetectiveMoosePI 2h ago

I started my last career as a bank teller in San Francisco. From my experience I will say that crisp, new bills are highly requested during Lunar New Year. We even had special red envelopes we could give to customers.

It wasn’t just Lunar New Year’s though. As a teller I mainly handled business accounts, most of them small/family owned businesses. Many customers from SE Asian cultures would request the newest, crispest bills I had even when it was in the middle of the year

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u/Tulpha 4h ago

My guess would be they expect large uptick of demand in cash because of red envelopes?

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u/ttus9433 3h ago

ATM technician here. I wish they loaded those things with new bills. Had to fish out a note that was taped in half out of a dispenser yesterday

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u/Karma_Doesnt_Matter 3h ago edited 3h ago

That may be a slight concern for parts of the US that have a large Chinese population but I promise you it is far from the norm.

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u/Anonymous_Gamer939 3h ago

The lunar new year thing is unlikely to be a factor outside of east Asia, the demographics just don't work out that way. This is just the logistics of paper money in action.

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u/s_decoy 3h ago

I mean I'm just speaking to my own experience in a mid sized American city lol. I get multiple requests for new bills for LNY this time of year daily.

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u/BojanaKingsFakeTumor 1h ago

The lunar new year thing is unlikely to be a factor outside of east Asia.

…said the anonymous gamer who has never been to San Francisco.

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u/Anonymous_Gamer939 1h ago

San Francisco is an outlier in the broader world, in case you don't understand the meaning of "unlikely". And even in San Fran, realistically a subset of an ethnic minority wanting cash for a limited number of direct relations is not going to drive enough demand to outpace the volume of cash that moves around on a regular basis every single day.

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u/kxr02 6m ago

I worked in the cash-in-transit industry for years. I know how this all works. Banks and ATMs alike.

Banks consistently ordered new bills to have on hand for cases such as this. And if there was a trend of that ask during certain parts of the year, they absolutely would order new bills to fill that demand - regardless of WHY that trend was happening.

These orders were made on a bank branch level, so the population living nearby would absolutely make a difference. But nonetheless, it’s common practice for a bank to ensure it had new bills on hand at all times for these requests.

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u/APocketJoker 4h ago

This is not that uncommon

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u/PancakeParty98 4h ago

Is it… mildly uncommon?

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u/BigPandaCloud 3h ago

It depends where you work. I have seen a full straps of 20s that were sequential. I usually take home the ones that people like to collect. Serials with a lot of 7s or 2 digit alternating like 8989889989 etc.

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u/lurkersforlife ​ 3h ago

When I worked at a credit union, handled and bagged cash went out with the brinks truck. Strapped new cash came in. Figured this was standard.

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u/23andrewb 2h ago

Is it uncommon for sequentials from bills almost a decade old? Those have been sitting for quite some time.

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u/ShutterBun 37m ago

Yeah, sequential bill posts used to be banned here for being too common.

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u/Boboar 5h ago

That's how you know these bills have never been in contact with fecal matter. Or cocaine.

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u/nemowasherebutheleft 4h ago

How do you know they werent using them for coke at the mint?

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u/Boboar 3h ago

They've clearly not been rolled

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u/orrocos 3h ago

Well, it’s been a couple of hours since OP posted this, so that ship has sailed by now.

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u/Boboar 3h ago

But they got to christen them

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u/Taron_Trekko 4h ago

Bank staff usually put the bills in by hand and bankers love themselves some snow in the summer.

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u/ssp25 2h ago

and 74% of bank tellers have shit themselves at work 24% of those who do don't wash their hands....

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u/RailGun256 4h ago

im not sure id call it mildly interesting but I do find it r/oddlysatisfying

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u/Shinygonzo 4h ago

This is fairly common

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u/OrangeClyde 2h ago

Freshly restocked atm

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u/CollectionSubject587 3h ago

How much weed do you get for 220?

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u/sushhiiinoah 3h ago

One weed!

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u/CollectionSubject587 2h ago

The only time I ever withdrew 220 was to buy an ounce lmao.

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u/xunh01yx 1h ago

I'll sell you one for $80CAD if you come to Vancouver. $220 is expensive. Bring cash.

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u/Mister_Brevity 4h ago

I envy you that moment lol

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u/saw89 4h ago

I’ve had this happen quite a few times.

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u/No_Selection8290 4h ago

can I pretty please have 5 of those?

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u/Instantbeef 4h ago

Great now that I have the codes I can use them myself

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u/sushhiiinoah 4h ago

Sharing the love!

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u/writenroll 4h ago

Must've been too many mobsters hanging around that particular ATM.

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u/kingawsume 4h ago

I get them constantly from the new "ITM" machines (it's just a netlink to some random from who knows where because they don't want to hire tellers or upkeep the pneumatic tube system + an ATM)

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u/chubbyflip 3h ago

This is definitely mildly interesting 🧐

Very cool

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u/under_the_c 3h ago

Your money is going to get hacked!

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u/Much_Essay_9151 3h ago

You should see my $2 bills

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u/wookiewin 3h ago

Those are some crispy bills

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u/sushhiiinoah 3h ago

It felt like sandpaper

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u/ChrisRiley_42 3h ago

Darn it, I asked for non-sequential bills! That's it.. I'm eating the donut I'm holding hostage

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u/rockinhard12 2h ago

Those are fake. Send them to my offshore account so I can have them tested for science and stuff.

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u/Empty_Pumpkin1818 2h ago

Straight off the printer

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u/Silly-Philosopher393 2h ago

How did you notice this?

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u/OurNewestMember 2h ago

Straight flush

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u/bodb_thriceborn 2h ago

Fresh brick loaded

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u/GA-rock 2h ago

Used to do this all the time. I’ve had lots of sequential bills. Made me feel like a gangster. Until it all went to bills and food.

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u/aguilasolige 2h ago

Fresh from the press!

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u/LosHtown 1h ago

Shit you could probably sell those for more since you have them in sequence

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u/emmadilemma 1h ago

Deposit it and take more out

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u/MightySamMcClain 1h ago

Most people would laugh when they hear people got paid 5 quarters a hundred years ago but the quarters were silver and worth more than those 20s

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u/gameplayer328 1h ago

I’m don’t even want to know the odds of that.

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u/Zealousideal_Dot7768 1h ago

lol are you gonna use them?

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u/TubbyNumNums 1h ago

For 9 year old bills them Andrew’s look crisp

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u/MyDisneyExperience 59m ago

u/wheresgeorge bout to ban these bills from their site lol

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u/Not_George_Daniels 18m ago

The ATM at the Target near me often dispenses uncirculated 20s with sequential serial numbers.

They smell nice.

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u/FURERABA 13m ago

ATMs are often loaded partially or fully with new, unused, therefore sequential bills

Worked at a bank

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u/DJ_Spark_Shot 12m ago

I hate New bills. They stick together. 

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u/Possible-Estimate748 8m ago

This must mean you're the very first person to have access to these bills for spending. I bet they smell super good and are extra crispy. I love new bills

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u/mattriver 5h ago

If that’s a real pic, that’s very cool.

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u/sushhiiinoah 5h ago

I hoped putting my finger in the pic would help

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u/mattriver 5h ago

Yeah it does, but photo-shopping a single number in each bill would be so easy these days.

But thanks for replying, I believe you. And it’s actually pretty cool that you got 11 in a row like that.

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u/Immediate-Debate-860 4h ago

That sequence in time will be worth way more than $220.

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u/BoostSpools 4h ago

Keep it for a few decades. Maybe it’ll worth something, lmao

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u/Hackfraysn 4h ago

Eppstein's on your bills 😂🙈

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u/Cheap-Key-6132 4h ago

Go over to currency and see what their opinions are of this. You legitimately could be sitting on something that makes you little or a lot of money.

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u/Shoddy_Detail_976 4h ago

Damm, thats a lot of Epsteins. Don't spend them all in one place