“A desperate old man goes to a bank’s cashier’s desk on January 3rd 2002 with two bags of money that he would like to change into euros. The bank employee opens the bags, which contain 10,000F… in small change. Write the ensuing dialogue. ” [32 out of 45, 2001/2002]

This is a piece of creative writing based on a comical currency exchange premise.

Both the English and French versions of this piece are 286 words long.