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A terrible (or terribly funny, depending on how into schadenfreude you are) story, this… an Israeli woman is today desperately scrabbling around the municipal dumps of Tel Aviv after her daughter bought her a new mattress as a surprise and sent the old one to landfill…. unfortunately, the old one contained the woman’s life-savings of approximately $1,000,000. Eeeek!
It’s a shame that the savings were in dollars rather than Israel’s traditional currency, otherwise this would have been very much a case of “shekel and hide”…
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My favourite thing about this story is the last three sentences:
“But despite being unable to retrieve the mattress and its hidden fortune, “Anat” appeared philosophical about her loss.
“People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad,” she said.
There has been no comment from her mother. ”
I suspect there have, in fact, been several comments from her mother, only none of them are printable…
“Anat” is apparently a nickname given to her by journalists; whilst her mother was repeatedly screaming “WHERE THE FUCK IS MY MATTRESS??!!!”, all she could say was (adopt generic Mediterranean accent) “I’m Anat sure….”