Referring to them as "notes" clearly marks you as a foreigner. Whatever they do "back home", that's not how it's done here ~
How many $5 bills have you ever owned whereby you actually knew the serial number of each one?
I can't recall even one currency note I have owned that I ever knew the serial number of.
“Referring to them as “notes” clearly marks you as a foreigner”
Referring to them as “notes” simply means I have lived in quite a few countries in my lifetime, including spending many years in the UK. I have from time to time made references to that in my posts on here when the thread is about countries I have lived in.
“Whatever they do “back home”, that's not how it's done here ~”
No?
Is how “it's done here” entail person "A" foolishly leaving their phone in a bar, someone else (person "B") finding it, then person "A" (or his representative) refusing to accept the phone back when person "B" repeatedly tries to return the said phone, and person A" even denying that he lost the phone at all, only for person "A" to turn round a week later and accuse the the phone finder of being a thief?
The trouble with you idiotic Applebots is, you don't think for yourselves for even one minute. If Steve Jobs says jump into a lion's den with an hungry lion in it, you'd find some way to justify why such a suicidal act is good.