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September 20, 2003, 9:30 PM MST--
Holy shnikes... I totally forgot about this story! I'll get back to it I swear! If i don't, well, I'm sorry.

The 30¢ Theory:
The universe, not only being expansively big, works in mind boggling ways. One of these ways involves 30¢.
A person with $1worth of change in their pocket(2 quarters, 5 dimes) will find that when they want to buy something, oh say a 20 ounce bottle of soda for $1, will find them selves missing 3 dimes. They will search incessantly for this 30¢ but will come up empty handed. They must then beg people for 30¢ or settle for a 12 ounce can of soda. They will eventually come acrose a person who is in possesion of 50¢. The person will graciously take the 50¢ and give the lender-of-50¢ the two dimes therefore owing them 30¢.

When the ower-of-30¢ manages to scrounge up 30¢, they will find it gone when they go to repay the very nice person who lent them 50¢. This will happen a few more times before the person realizes there is something fishy going on. They will then bring 60¢ to give to the person who was gracious enough to lend the needer-of-30¢ 50¢. When the bringer-of-60¢ goes to repay the 50¢-giver, they will find themselves with not 60¢, but 30¢. Once paying the person, the repayer will be glad not to owe people money. Though when the reciever-of-30¢ goes to use the 30¢, they will find it gone and accuse the repayer of never repaying them in the first place, there fore forcing them to come up with another 30¢.

The once again ower-of-30¢ will plot on how to work around this strange disappearance of 30¢. This process may take from an hour to a week for them to realize they need not 60¢ but 30¢.

Once they've figured this little problem out, they will assure themselves that they indeed have 90¢ and not 60¢. Then they repay the lender, they will fork over all the change they have with accounts to 60¢. The lender will be curious to why they are recieving double what they are owed, but won't ask questions. But by the end of the day, they will only have 30¢.

No one exactly knows what keeps happening to these 30¢, but there are many theories. Most of which involve the universe stealing it.

A proposed theory is that the universe steals these 30¢ and distribute them into different bank accounts, throwing the tellers into a frenzie. Unable to explain the extra money, bankers slowly start to go mad and watch the accounts with much interest. After never finding out how the money gets there, they decided to call it "interest" and use it as a way to get people to use their bank.

Another theory is that the 30¢ is taken by the universe and hidden in a deep canyon on a distant planet/moon as a joke. The inventor of this theory believes that the universe loves to watch foolish ape-desendents go crazy looking for tiny, meaningless, silver disks.

Others refuse to admit that the universe is capible of stealling and just says that they simply lost the 30 ¢ and/or the 30¢ never existed in the first place. "What use is 30¢ anyway?" they say. "It's just meaningless pocket change." Yet these are the people who go insane looking for the 30¢ when they are 30¢ short of the price of an item.

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