A childhood savings account’s compound interest can momentarily cheer a desperate partner.

Evidence

In the back of one drawer he found a tattered blue savings account book from Brookline Savings. The last entry, a deposit, had been made in May 1962, when Gordon was eight years old. The account balance read 39.42. Immediately Gordon called the bank to withdraw the balance, which he discovered now amounted, with accrued interest, to 177. Gordon’s spirits began to rise. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 2742

Categorization

• CANDY: A partner searching his desk for Krugerrands finds instead a 1962 piggy-bank passbook worth $177 — a sweet, absurd beat.