money
The Gift of the Magi II
Jim sold his watch to buy Della a comb, she’d sold her hair to buy him a watch chain. “Wait,” she said. “What did you do with the rest of the money?” Jim confessed that he had spent the rest of the money on hookers and blow: “…You might want to get tested.”
#20:
Pixel’s friend Schmree was burglarized. “I know how you feel,” she said, “minus the punch in the face.” Pixel knew how she felt. Plus a punch in the face. And it still didn’t feel good. This angered him very much: hadn’t he specifically said when he was robbed that the only consolation he had was…
Ironically, he didn't see it coming.