Money Sometimes is the Answer or A Hundred Ways to Make a First Impression

I take the train each day into work and frequently encounter someone pedeling their wares or passing out flyers as I exit the terminal on my way in to work. This day being no exception I encounter a female lunging at me with something in her hand while demanding “Here!”. I’d been bothered before to take a flyer or newspaper but never have I had anyone be so in my face about it. Naturally I was turned off of whatever she was offering, until I looked down and saw this:

My initial reaction was that someone or some company just might crazy or stupid enough to hand out a hundred dollar bill with a note attached as some sort of whacky marketing campaign so I obliged her offer and took what she offered. Immediately after I took it into my hand the “too good to be true” thought started to creep in so I inspected the dimensions of what I had just received:

A phony! Hey now, that’s not fair! But they already had me. The “money” was already in my hand and I was walking further away from the peddler. Of course my next reaction was to laugh and ask who was so wickedly clever and I discover another, albeit less surprising, find:

Ahhhhh! It’s tax season! And I haven’t done my taxes yet! You bastards!

Update: One other thing I realized is that the depths of cleverness of using a hundred dollar bill as the cover for your leaflet is that if it is tossed on the ground as trash someone else will likely come along and the process repeat itself. Brilliant!