$48.82 is now a lot of money to me. Finding that loose change helped so much.
A very sad story for how smart you sound. The moral I draw from the story, regardless of whether it is true or not, as I cannot verify it, is that one should never be overconfident of one's intelligence. Doing so can have catastrophic consequences.
I think these things happen because of addication. death_wish can shed some light on this I'm sure.