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.
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.