The reappearing $20 bill

[bhskittykatt]

I wanted munchies from the vending machine. I reached into my purse, and I only saw a $5 bill. I thought that was odd, because I thought I'd only had a $20, but I shrugged it off figuring I must have spent it at some point.

So I go out to the vending machine, and after a few tries trying to insert the bill and swearing at the machine as it spit it back out, I realized that it was, in fact, a $20 bill after all. I don't know why my brain read it as $5 earlier.

(Too bad I'm not at Hubby's work. They actually have a machine that takes $20. There's nothing more than $5 in the machine)

[Mnemjian]

That's strange! Still... it's better than thinking you had a $20 and ending up with a $5