One-hundred-upmanship

Good Ole Ben   (Public Domain)

If you’re going to practice one-upmanship, might as well do it on a generously large scale.

Thus figured someone named “Leo” back in 2007, upon plunking 31 hundred-dollar bills into an Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania Salvation Army kettle. 

The volunteer manning this kettle found a note alongside that $31,000 gift.  It read:  I want you to be known as the person who collected the largest donation…

This was in reference to an earlier donation of $30,000.  Lesson learned: A bit of healthy competition can spur folks on to greater heights.

Resources

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/695238558/Man-named-Leo-puts-big-bills-into-tambourine.html 

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