million billion gazillion
Once when I was a kid my dad and I walked out of a deli together after a couple of sandwiches. We saw a guy my dad knew, who was a jeweler.My dad called to him, and the guy walked over.
They exchanged pleasantries, and the guy questioned me about how school was going.
"Good" I told him.
"So what's up?" Dad asked him.
"Oh just carrying some stuff back to my store." he said.
"Let's see,"
The guy reached into his pocket and flopped out a little plastic baggie with a giant diamond in it. It looked about the size of a baseball to me.
"Holy Fuckass McTitsface" my dad said. He didn't really say that, but he did use a swear which was equally unintelligible to me, but which I still knew was a swear.
The guy grinned.
"How much is that worth?" Dad asked.
"Seventy five hundred" said the guy.
My brain didn't even register this amount. At the time it was like a million billion gazillion. A sum too large to be thought of.
"Christ fucking a motorhome," said Dad "We gotta go."
We said our goodbyes and went back to our car to drive home.
"Wow." I said to dad.
"Can't believe he was just walking around with that thing. He flopped it out like it was nothing."
Dad and I got back in the car and drove home, and a guy walked back to his shop with a rock in his pocket that was worth a million billion gazillion dollars.
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