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As I was at the checkout line, the cashier's register beeped, letting her know she needed to put away some of the cash. She excused herself, took out and counted out ten $20 bills, and started loading them into the slot in the safe under the counter. I realized that the whole experience seemed very strange to me; taking such care of pieces of green paper and storing them so safely. I almost never deal with cash, instead choosing to deal with just numbers in Excel, finance software (Quicken), and brokerage sites. I also deal with such huge amounts all the time, thousands of dollars of my own home finances, and hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars while at work, that a $20 bill has lost all meaning to me, and dealing with money is just calculating and moving around numbers on computer. So, watching someone deal with paper cash and being so protective of it is just really... alien to me. I don't know what this means, or what kind of implications this may have.