Havana Times
21 January 2018
Caridad
[…] The egg is the true currency of
ordinary Venezuelans. It was a good joke on the social networks when people
discovered that one day of minimum wage was not enough to pay for a single egg.
But better yet was the man who didn’t have cash to grab a taxi after making a
purchase at a food fair.
Overwhelmed by the weight, he asked a taxi
driver how many bolivars he would charge for taking him home. Ten thousand
bolivars, in cash of course. Ten thousand bolivars is the maximum allowed by
banks to withdraw daily and the gentleman did not have them. So he made a very
quick calculation, the egg carton of 30 units cost 300,000 bolivars. Each egg
then has a cost of 10,000. He then offered an egg to the taxi driver in
exchange for the raid and he, without hesitation, accepted.
I cannot assure that the anecdote is real,
but it has all the basis to be it. […]