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I get one of my monthly bills through email.

Haven't used my printer for a while, so I manually copy the codebar numbers in a small piece of paper, and give it to the employee you pay the bills to.
In August, I kept postponing this task of copying the codebar numbers. I just didn't feel like doing it during several days. Funny enough, a way I found to motivate myself to do it was putting all the numbers on the inflated body of a character, and trying to achieve the effect of them adapting to the inflated shape. This is also the appeal I find in patterns over a balloon (example polka dots balloons, flower pattern balloons, etc). Ironically, this takes more time than just copying the numbers, but the art challenge combined with wondering about the employee's reaction motivated me to do it.

At the payment place, there's a man and a woman attending. And they knew I sometimes paid giving them the codebar numbers. When I went there, I happened to be attended by the lady. Gave her the drawing, and she exclaimend "What's this!!?". So I proceeded to clarify these were the codebar numbers again, so she wrote them with the keyboard as usual. After I paid, she said "very nice one! Very good" referring to the drawing, and puffed up her cheeks imitating the image. I just replied "Thanks, thanks", took the verification ticket, and left.
I think this was a very interesting anecdote to share.

Anyway, found an alternative doing a banktransfer, so I'm not copying the codebar numbers for these bills anymore.

Also, while I think it's just safe to share the numbers because it's for the payment of a bill, just in case I erased some of the numbers from this specific upload. I am unaware of wheter these can be connected to some personal data or not.

Commercial use and modifications allowed (see license).
Authorized for Artificial Intelligence datasets.

Description
I get one of my monthly bills through email.

Haven't used my printer for a while, so I manually copy the codebar numbers in a small piece of paper, and give it to the employee you pay the bills to.
In August, I kept postponing this task of copying the codebar numbers. I just didn't feel like doing it during several days. Funny enough, a way I found to motivate myself to do it was putting all the numbers on the inflated body of a character, and trying to achieve the effect of them adapting to the inflated shape. This is also the appeal I find in patterns over a balloon (example polka dots balloons, flower pattern balloons, etc). Ironically, this takes more time than just copying the numbers, but the art challenge combined with wondering about the employee's reaction motivated me to do it.

At the payment place, there's a man and a woman attending. And they knew I sometimes paid giving them the codebar numbers. When I went there, I happened to be attended by the lady. Gave her the drawing, and she exclaimend "What's this!!?". So I proceeded to clarify these were the codebar numbers again, so she wrote them with the keyboard as usual. After I paid, she said "very nice one! Very good" referring to the drawing, and puffed up her cheeks imitating the image. I just replied "Thanks, thanks", took the verification ticket, and left.
I think this was a very interesting anecdote to share.

Anyway, found an alternative doing a banktransfer, so I'm not copying the codebar numbers for these bills anymore.

Also, while I think it's just safe to share the numbers because it's for the payment of a bill, just in case I erased some of the numbers from this specific upload. I am unaware of wheter these can be connected to some personal data or not.

Commercial use and modifications allowed (see license).
Authorized for Artificial Intelligence datasets.