Zapfic Monday - The Risks of the Exchange

This week's Zapfic contest in the Freewriters community is the last Monday of the month, and the prompt is "Exchange"

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Bert stood on the ledge thinking. A million pounds invested in the Stock Exchange lost when the pension fund went bankrupt.

“If I’d have invested in crypto I’d still have my money. I should have bought HIVE,” he thought, just before jumping.

Yay, I hit exactly 240 characters 😁

For any of my friends (or anyone else, for that matter !) who reads this and fancies giving it a try, it's really fun and thought provoking. The rules are really simple;

• The Freewriters Community has a Zapfic post with a writing prompt every Monday (up to 240 character posts) and Friday (exactly 50 word posts)
• Your response must be posted within 3 days in the Freewriters Community.
• Please post a link to your entry in the comments section of the prompt post
• Please use #freewritehouse and #zapfic tags.
• The important one - YOU MUST use a word/character counter (if you search for word counter on the internet or in your phone's app store you will get a big choice!) wordcounter.net and include a screenshot. Entries without a screenshot will NOT be valid.
• Please use the prompt provided as you see fit (use your imagination)
• Try to tell a complete story if you can!
• The story should only be up to 240 characters long (including spaces, punctuation etc).