Why did the man go to the bank? [originaltext] It was a bit of bad luck when

It was a bit of bad luck when the man’s car broke down—he was stuck in a no-parking area. So he went into a store to borrow" a pen and paper to leave a note for the traffic police. The pen, however, was like his car. It didn’t work. When he decided to go back to the store to buy a pen, he found another little problem. He only had a $50 bill and the salesman couldn’t change it. So he went off to find a bank to change the bill to buy the pen to write on the paper to put on his car to tell the traffic police that his car had broken down. As he left the bank he saw a phone box. He decided to call a garage to send a truck to pull the car away, but the number was busy. When he got back to his car he found a parking ticket on the car. The story has, however, a happy ending. The driver wrote to the police station to explain what had happened. The police officer who read the letter decided not to punish him with the $20 parking fee. She said that even if the man’s story was not true, it was so clever he could be excused from being fined!