Friday, December 07, 2007
All I want is a Dr. Pepper from the vending machine. It only takes dollar bills and non-dollar coins, and all I have is you, new golden dollar coin. Sure, you bear the visage of our nation's first (and possibly greatest) president, but you do him a disservice. You are not great, golden dollar coin. You aren't accepted by vending machines. Parking meters will not accept you. Even cashiers at stores look at me when I try to pass you off as legal tender. And to top it all off, you represent the base amount of a currency that is in the tanks right now. You, coin, suck at life.Labels: I talk to inanimate objects
Thank you, kind sir, now I can tell my story. Foxwoods gives these things out and my boss is a frequent visitor. I keep change in my desk to supply me with my daily fix of DDP's (Diet Dr. Pepper's) but oft is the time I come in to find four quarters missing and one of those bastages in it's place... I keep threatening increasingly worse reprisals but to no avail. Luckily the parking lot at the train station near me has a very low-tech coin receptacle I can dispose of them in, but otherwise they are utterly useless and far too European.
Sounds like you need to follow through on some of those threats. Or put a lock on your desk.
I wouldn't really mind coin dollars if I could actually use them. Well, I don't know about having all that metal in my pocket...
Clearly you work for the wrong employer. I can totally use dollar coins in my vending machines.
Oh wait. Yes, that's right, because I work for the U.S. Mint.
Don't be hatin' on my peeps.
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