Need Cash?

February 20, 2008 - 1:00 PM by Stephanie

Where I come from – the U.S. of A. – this store would definitely NOT have L-O-N-G-E-V-I-T-Y stamped into its business license. It just opened in my Tel Aviv neighborhood.

Don’t know what I”m talking about?

Slide a bit closer to your computer monitor.

This is a money exchange/liquor store.

The Concept: Trade those hard-earned Euros in for shekels and pick up the liter bottle of your choice at the same time! One-stop-shopping. Isn’t that nifty?

Now let’s pretend this place was in…em…Manhattan. How long do you suppose before:

1) The cashier was held up at gunpoint
2) The register was cleaned out
3) The booze was stolen during the robbery

???

When I told the owner: Man, where I come from, you’d end up “not alive” running this kinda business, he laughed and called his friend over: Yossi, didja hear what she just said? Heh heh. Where are you from?

I dunno, scratch scratch. Booze + Banking does not = Good Combo. Maybe that’s why B of A doesn’t offer shots at the drive-thru window…

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