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What Jerk is Pushing the Dollar Coin?So I stopped at the post office over the weekend to mail a card. For some unknown reason, the last time I mailed anything, the cost of stamps was something like 29 cents, so I was woefully lacking in metal funds at the vending machine. Not wanting to walk the 40 feet back to my car for a dime, I popped in a $20. This was a huge mistake. The machine spat out 1 stamp and then blew up like I'd hit 3 cherries on the nickel slots on the senior gambling boat. At first, it didn't seem so bad. I saw a couple quarters, a nickel, a few pennies. But then came the gold coins and more gold coins and even more gold coins. 19 Thomas Jefferson dollars in all. A little pissed that the post office had the nerve to give back gold doubloons as change, I tried to exchange them for dollar bills at the window. The woman all but put her hand in my face. So I stuffed them into my white trash, mini-Crown Royal bag that I use for change (I'm a classy broad, I know) and forgot about them until this morning when I went into the BP for some milk. While fishing a couple $1 coins out of my bag, the illiterate, illegal alien behind the counter stopped me: "Miss we don't take no old coins."
I asked for the manager. He scoffed again and then stared at me like I was the one with the problem. We had a non-lethal Mexican stand-off until some hilljack with hairs on his balls older than my parents told me to "run along to school." After I shouted at him, I was asked to leave. Perhaps it had to be thus. But what kind of bullshit is this?? First of all, if I thought somebody had a sack of treasure and I worked at the BP gas station, I'd smack them with a roll of lottery tickets, thieve the coins and try to buy my own island. I wouldn't stand around with my hands on my hips having melodramatic breathing fits behind the counter. That said, I'm still giving Paco a pass for our interaction. Though the experience left me a little heated, I did keep strange looking coins in a purple and yellow bag that looks like something pirates throw at the ruffians as payment for a kidnapping well done. That's my fault. But what dickbag clowns are pushing these things at the U.S. Mint? There is no logical reason for the government to issue money that looks like you can unwrap it and eat the chocolate inside. Something has to be done!  Posted at February 20, 2008 5:11 PM Permalink • Filed under: Personal |
I grabbed 2 Thomas Jefferson dollars and a quarter and handed them to BP Clerk, who then had the nerve to scoff at me. "Pfft. Miss, we don't take treasure."
Comments (9): What Jerk is Pushing the Dollar Coin?
tim
February 20, 2008 6:05 PM
We tend to file lawsuits in America about these things. Seriously, it's legal tender, and you have the right to spend it anywhere you want.
Anderson
February 20, 2008 7:19 PM
HAHAHA I'm only mad you weren't at Wal-Mart for this :)
Houlihan
February 20, 2008 8:22 PM
I had the same problem when they were Sacajawea's. I was out of cash and had about 10 of those things and tried to use em to buy beer. Straight rejected. It's fucking ridiculous.
M. Harold
February 20, 2008 9:07 PM
The bag is cracking me up. You look like the type of chick that's as likely to pull marbles or a set of jacks out of that thing as you are money.
Silver
February 20, 2008 9:26 PM
I heard that they're working on phasing out the paper dollar, so that might have something to do with why the post office told you to eat it.
Julius
February 21, 2008 8:19 AM
Fuck that! You shoulda left the money on the counter, took your stuff and walked out.
Coz
February 23, 2008 3:05 PM
Come on, Flash. As a quasi-Brit, you should know the benefits of proper coinage. Someone from the home of the world's greatest change, the £2 coin (also known as the beer token), should be pushing as hard as possible for their improvement in pocket dynamics. As our currency continues on the long road to the Wiemar Mark, the $1 bill is simply more and more of a general nuisance.
I agree with Julius. You should have dumped that "treasure" on the counter and walked the fuck out.
Flash
February 24, 2008 3:33 PM
Oh please Coz. I know the benefits of proper English coinage but they are nowhere to be found in America.
A dollar coin wouldn't be a problem if:
1) It was standard fare
2) Idiots didn't mistake it for pirate booty or Halloween candy
3) You could actually buy a pint of REAL BEER with it.
#3 is the most important consideration of all. I can hardly get a bag of fucking Doritos with $1. I'd need 20 of those damned coins just to get 3 pints of good ale in the States. So until the Mint starts pumping out $5 dollar coins and educating people about them, I'll continue to complain.
Ray
February 26, 2008 4:50 PM
Is there a name for this coin? Are they going to be pumping out $2 coins in the future like your neighbours to the north?
Welcome to the world of loonies and twonies (the name Canada calls their dollar and $2 coins). :)