I hate the loony and the tooney up here in Canada when I am traveling, just not convienient to carry you have a 10 and spend 5.01 and you have a pocket full of coins..
In Canada they yanked the paper dollars quickly, though to their credit all sorts of vending machines accepted the $1 coins very quickly. A few years later, the same story with the $2. It is a pain carrying it around, but you can literally buy dinner with pocket change.
Yeah, I was up there on a business trip a couple of years ago and I kept joking about hoping I didn't fall into the pool because I might drown . . . Also, with that much metal in my pocket I must have been walking with a limp . . .