From the "Too Cheap to Live" department.:



CALCUTTA (AFP) - An errand runner in an Indian government office who was too poor to complete high school finally graduated at age 51 -- and was rewarded by his boss, the state finance minister, with one dollar.



Jaydeb Bayen said Friday he was determined to get his high school diploma so he could be promoted from the title of "peon" to "clerk" at the state finance department in Calcutta . . . .



Trivia: "peon" is really a title. I looked it up because it just seemed too over the top.