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
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