Rescuing the Money After Lunch

'What should we do?'

'I'll pop down to the bank after I've finished writing this and put things into government bonds'.

'Is that like Italian National Savings?'

'More or less. There are different bonds. I'll have a think and do it in a moment. Let me finish this reference or it won't get there in time. Italy's not much exposed to all this; mixture of backwardness and extremely conservative banking.'

Main door bangs. Sigh of relief, the world isn't going to collapse in Monculi.

Later

'What lovely flowers, I always like green flowers'
'Still your birthday for a few more days.'

'What did the bank say?'

'Ah. Knew there was something else to do. I'll go after lunch.'

Obviously the world as we know it is collapsing slowly. ND said it would. It can wait till after lunch.