You could just file a little off each one and still get the full penny for em, trouble is the vending machines won't accept them .... but wait, when was the last time you saw a machine take one anyway - only those of us born before the wheel invention recall that cheapo bubble gum ... other problem is it's illegal to deface currency, it's ok apparently to run up trillion-dollar deficits on it, but you can't rub your wife's nail file over it, no no that will land you in gaol ... no wait, gubmint can't afford to be watching that close for that little, so go right ahead
It is ridiculous for us in NA to be using pennies ... years and years ago in Godzone, when their penny meant considerably more value to them than ours does to us now, they rarely if ever used pennies, or five-cent pieces for that matter [they don't call them nickels] ... you'd buy something for 15.12 say, hand the guy a twenty, and he'd hand you back a five, whiz-bang ... same if your purchase was 14.85, he'd hand you a five back, and then give you a bit of a glance to see if you were petty enough to want your fifteen cents ... this was more a guy thing, women cashiers especially in grocery stores tended more to exact change, but still it struck me as a national characteristic, and a good one ... we should just stop with the pennies and nickels, and make a five-dollar coin ... out of that jer.v fibreboard, no point in using up scarce metals, eh .... well everybody have a great weekend ... cheers |
