Cut her some slack. She probably doesn’t have any Puerto Rican money.
Converting US Dollars to US Dollars is beyond her math skills...
I was at an after-work happy hour jazz event many years ago. The event was organized by a local radio station, and attended mainly by yuppie types.
During breaks, the MC would give away prizes, such as CDs, to those who could answer certain trivia questions or whatnot. At one point, she announced that the next prize would go to the first person who brought a Hawaiian dollar up to the stage. It was amazing to watch nearly the entire crowd stare at each other and shrug, as if that was some impossible request. I couldn’t believe it. I was looking at my friends and saying, “Hawaii’s a state, you know.”
Finally, a few seconds later, one guy figured it out and ran up on stage with a dollar, a good old U.S. dollar. I just shook my head. I can still hear many in that audience saying “no way” when asked for a “Hawaiian dollar.”
And we wonder how society got as messed up as it is today.