pole, it must be traumatising during these hard economic times.
I noticed that you said she opened her wallet to remove money, a tip to ladies is to try and separate your cash, e.g. the 'big' money in the many anonymous zipped sections in the bag and loose change for fare in the external zipped pockets thus one avoids opening the bag in the matatu.

i just want to think you are a ten year old coz thinking otherwise w/ such kind of reasoning gives me nightmares....

i have done it in real life, not in the fantasy stock market or demo forex trading accounts

There is a lot of cash carried around in socks as Jimmy1 says, that's a safe, all you need is a sturdy pair of socks and you are good to go. Especially for people in business. 1 M in terms of volume is not as bulky since it is neatly/tightly stacked.

My first assignment, after college, was in dagoretti corner but some how the survey map i carried read something like Kiriandusi, so i wasn't sure where the damn Kiriandusi market was. one dude squeezed me so hard in the matatu (the back seat), so hard that i thought my leg would break, kumbe he was stealing my damn phone you know the sagem(loud voice). i was so shocked on a lighting because i didn't know where Kiriandusi mkt was and my phone was gone. funny thing is i had conned my father of his hard earned 10k to buy the phone for 7k then in 2004.

Could you or your partner have straddled on one man's hard earned cash?