A MAN who has lost his grip on reality is convinced that goods or services could once be bought with nothing more than a five pound note.
Having just returned from the shops where he bought no more than a couple of items for the usual tenner-plus, 36-year-old Martin Bishop is baselessly claiming that a fiver used to be enough to cover a small purchase and receive change.
He said: “Am I going mad? Or is this the Mandela Effect? No way should a pint of milk, a loaf and a small tin of beans cost upwards of four quid.
“It sounds like bullshit but I can vividly recall being able to buy a pint with a fiver, even in London. Olive oil used to be so cheap you wouldn’t even check the price and takeaway coffees were paid for with nothing but coins, I swear to God.
“Why would the Mint even produce five pound notes when they’re essentially worthless? Because they didn’t used to be. Because once, not long ago, they were a viable unit of currency. Don’t look at me like I’m a tinfoil hat-wearing lunatic. This is real.”
Friend Nikki Hollis said: “This happened to my dad. He said you could once get a fiver out of a cashpoint and buy 20 fags with it. We’ve sent him to a home.
“Though, now Martin says it, I do have a dim memory of receiving a birthday card when I was a child with a five pound note inside it. Was Auntie Joan taking the f**king piss?”
