How incompetent do you have to be to get in trouble for bribing politicians in this country? Those politicians worked so hard to make certain forms of bribery legal. I get why they’re upset.
Til you get there and find out a time traveler from further in the future already came back to before you arrived so Franklin turns you down because he’s already done someone who hadn’t been born yet and it’s not exciting anymore.
Must be Egyptian in the streets and Akkadian in the sheets.
Also, will need sheets for a dowry.
I suspect they did it so people wouldn’t be put off from buying something close to expiration.
In fairness to the people I worked for, they only put it on stuff with a short shelf life anyway, so it was all fairly close to expiring. Also, it was a convenience store. Most people ate it right away.
It might be the Julian date (I have no idea where the name comes from) which is just basically January 1st is 001, December 31st is 365, and the rest of the year is between. So this would be around December 15th.
We used it for food expirations on some things at the convenience store I used to work at.
“Is life on Venus coming to kill us?”
“Oh, no, these are microorganis-”
Shuts door
Wait for inflation to kick in.