{"id":3311,"date":"2026-03-11T16:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:06:52","slug":"apparently-i-look-like-john-d-rockefeller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/?p=3311","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, I Look Like John D. Rockefeller"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This morning I pulled my pickup into a parking space at a freeway rest stop, and a guy tapped on my window. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the best way to begin the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best case scenario, he needs directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worst case \u2013 I get kidnapped, and my wife counteroffers the ransom demand with, \u201cI\u2019m afraid you\u2019ve got this backward.  How much will you pay me to take him back?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I rolled down the window, and he shows me a $100 bill and asks in broken English if I have change for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I look over, and some other guy is pouring gas from a plastic jug into the pickup next to mine.  Apparently, Mr. One-Hundred Dollar Bill ran out of gas, and he was buying some from a random stranger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(You\u2019ve heard the phrase, \u201cYou look like million bucks\u201d?  Apparently, I look like one hundred bucks \u2013 in small bills.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told the guy sorry.  Perhaps one day I would win the lottery and walk around with change for a $100 bill.  But that day was not today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me until I had walked into the restroom to take care of my business to realize how ridiculous this was.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the odds that you go up to a stranger and they would have change for a hundred?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those have got to be LONG odds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe better odds asking someone wandering down the Vegas Strip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at an I-5 rest stop?  In rural Oregon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gotta say, though.  I marched out of the toilet with my head held just a little higher.  Some guy had looked around that entire parking lot and thought,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That guy might have change for a hundred-dollar bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not because I looked rich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not because I looked responsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But because apparently I looked like a man who was operating well outside of the traditional banking system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s the old saying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fake it till you make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I swaggered back to my F-150, and with my head held at a jaunty angle, cruised off down the road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE END<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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