One of the drawbacks of the cashless society is we tend to spend a bit more -- not feeling the greenbacks somehow abstracts the notion of what we're paying and makes it a bit easier to rationalize the larger sums, I think. So we swipe and we spend maybe a few bucks more than we like. Happens to the best of us.

Unless you're Dale's daughter, who went a little nutty at CVS and, if Visa is to be believed, spent enough to cover the national debt...two thousand times over. Final tally is $23 quadrillion, or $23 million-millionbillion, if you like. Oh, and a $20 negative balance fee.

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Quadrillion (1015) is a thousand million million. A mere million million is a trillion (or, if you're British, a billion, with 1015 being a bilyard).

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You're right, I'm counting my millions wrong. Math is hard.

Which reminds me, before I forget: the Barbie Liberation Organization.
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