SciFi story about a man waking up years later...?

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I recall having a teacher read to me a story which I think was part of a larger book in and of itself, maybe not..
 about a man who woke up several, maybe hundreds, years into the future either from being put into stasis or being cryogenically frozen--something along that. He went to check on his bank account and found that over the years, the interest kept building up and up and now he had hundreds -- maybe millions -- of dollars saved up. Happy as can be, he was ready to go on a shopping spree but to his surprise, the inflation in the economy was so high due to it being so many years into the future, one garment that was on SALE was thousands and thousands of dollars!

Aaaand that's all I remember. Would anyone know what I'm talking about? Or are there too many stories like this out there?

tiandron · Accepted Answer

I'm pretty sure the story is by Isaac Asimov;  unfortunately, I can't remember the title.  A man wakes up, withdraws several million dollars of bank interest that had accumulated.  He thought he was rich, wasn't aware of the inflation.  He wanted to buy a suit, but it was several million dollars more than he had.  I found a long list of Asimov's stories - see if any of these rings a bell.  Sorry, I can't remember the title.
http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/short_fiction_sf_f_index.html

Knuckles · Answer

Modern day version of the original "Rip van Winkle" concept. Sorry, don't know this particular book

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SciFi story about a man waking up years later...?

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