Fairway bag full of money

[Mark Kohut]

Very good arguments so I will be convinced.

My less thoughtful projection was that he would still be cheap because
greed and because
he "knew" Maxine would find whatever to be a lot...as you wrote about a
decertified housewife.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 7:50 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hard to tell from the text. I think it’s at least $100k.
>
> “ Fairway bag which appears to be stuffed with money.”
>
> Marshaling my reasons -
>
> Igor is bigshot - had ZIL shipped over in parts & reassembled - wouldn’t
> half ass this
> She may have saved him and his friends 10 or 100 times that much
> Also this would have bolstered his prestige - priceless
> Also - he may be feeling his way toward a long term
> relationship with Maxine like he already has with March and Sid, and how
> better to start than with an impressive payday?
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 4:04 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is great research, Michael. but
> >
> > I may be projecting but I never thought it was close to that. I imagined
> > some hundreds never organized tightly,
> > stuffed in to look like a lot but really mostly air......
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:59 PM Michael Bailey <
> > michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> How much in a grocery bag full of hundreds?
> >> To save math & measuring I found this on what appears to be some kind
> of a
> >> gaming site:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://bullypulpitgames.com/downloads/half-a-million-dollars-in-a-grocery-bag/
> >>
> >> “A stack of one hundred greasy street-worn bills, American, takes up
> 6.89
> >> cubic inches, or 112 milliliters. A paper bag, like the one you get your
> >> groceries packed in or like the one you are looking at right now, holds
> >> 1,428 cubic inches, or just north of 23 liters. That’s 207.25 stacks of
> >> cash if you filled it with mathematical perfection, “
> >>
> >> Igor wouldn’t bother with anything but 100s
> >> 10000 x 200 = 2 million ?
> >>
> >> But it probably is more like half full.
> >>
> >> Still, a nice surprise for a working mother.
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