Black Hats

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His choices: Oolong tea, a beret.

Mine: Earl Gray, a fedora.

Our target: The Royal Bank of Ruritania. (And by extension, most exchange-traded funds in the Eurosystem.)

Our method: a single misplaced decimal point in RBR's share value.

The result: pure financial mayhem for 32 chaotic minutes. Epic lulz!

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Submitted for the Mad Hatter Day 2019 contest by Wattpad Anthologies ("Half-Drabble Hijinks"), exactly 50 words

Header photo by Arget via Unsplash

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