Posted on 01/14/2006 12:17:01 PM PST by CholeraJoe
For the fourth time in two weeks, I've gotten Canadian coins back from automatic change dispensers at Abertsons, Osco, WalMart and Safeway. I realize that I live in a state on the Canadian border, but it's 130 miles away.
Boy, that sounds like a store that I would be sure to be armed when I was in it.;)
Working as a clerk years ago, I was scammed by a slickster with a winning smile who asked for $20 in exchange for his rolled quarters.
After he left, I discovered all the quarters were Canuck! I had to foist them off on other customers in their change because the bank would not take them. It took almost two weeks to unload them all. Many customers checked their change and refused them.
I live in Montana. Everyone packs.
COOL!!!
We are close here in TX.
I used to live in TX. I don't recall the State having open carry like we do up here.
I bought an assault rifle 2 years ago and was carrying it to my truck. Two cops pulled up, jumped out of their squad car and shouted, "Dude! Awesome! Can I see it?"
Almost anywhere else, they would have had me spreadeagled on the pavement and cuffed.
More recently, when the Euro was launched (after all that ''extensive research in order to make the Eurocurrency the ultimate in currencies", Wim Duisenberg, 1995), these geniuses discovered that, lo and behold, the 2-Euro coin (=USD 2.34 at the time) was the exact size of the Thai 10-baht piece (=USD 0.26), and within 2/100ths of a gram of its weight. Talk about an arbitrage! Friend of mine in Thailand made about USD 8,000 before they pulled the plug on the game.
So, did the dingalings in Wonderland change the currency? Don't be silly -- they coerced the changing of every coin-vending machine and change machine on the Continent, at a cost of some E 2 billion.
EUR 1.00 = USD 1.2175, as of last night. Therefore, a 1-cent Euro coin would be worth USD 0.01275. Don't spend it all in one place...heh heh heh...
The Peso used to work as quarters in the toll booths in Illinois. Ended up being cheaper than the US money. :-)
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I usually run into Canadian pennies the most.
Shame on you. ;-)
I run into Canadian people more often than their money.
The Canadian people I don't mind. (although some of those women last year in Vancouver were libs) It's the coins. The banks will take folding money but they turn their nose up at coins.
i use to eat turnips. raw
You're an animal.
Jessica Simpson and a couple of members of the Swedish Bikini team were complaining to me about the same thing last night. You should have been here.
I would of replied to this post sooner, but I just got back from the pajama party at the playboy mansion.
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That's true , Doc. I'm not sure if even the rare foreign currency exchange offices (the only one I know of here in Vancouver is at the airport, there may be another one downtown) will take U.S. coins. Because of this, before leaving the U.S. I used to trade all the U.S. coins I could into paper money before coming back here. All the stores here used to accept U.S. coins at par, but I haven't tried using U.S. coins up here in decades. I'm very surprised your machines are giving you our coins - what a gyp! For what it's worth, vending machines down there used to very cleverly reject our quarters, again this was ages ago.
Don't you mean 1.3 cents?
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