Went to the post office today to get some stamps. Since there was a long line being passed by a turtle I decided to use the self-help machine. With only a pair of $20 bills in my wallet I put one of them in and got my stamps. That's when it happened.
Instead of some reasonable change, I received four nickels and 12 $1 coins. What the hell am I going to do with them? They look like tokens to ride the rides at Chucky Cheese, especially with the fake gold color.
Worse, though, is this latest example of government thinking. What coin is it closest in size to? That's right, a quarter. Whose picture is on the quarter? George Washington. So whose picture do they decide to put on the $1 coin? You guessed it! Ol' smiling George.
Yes, they're different views, but if you're not looking too closely and you just see who it is you could easily toss it in the toll booth or throw it down as a tip in a greasy spoon diner. What dumbass designed that? And what dumbass approved it?
There have been 43 Presidents of the United States (POTUS) including George W. Bush. They date back all the way to 1789. Surely we could've found one other POTUS who was worthy of being on a coin rather than having to go into repeats already. Hell, JFK turned out to be a philandering whore-monger and he has his own coin. Why not Bill Clinton? If that's too recent, how about Teddy Roosevelt? He's pretty recognizable. Even Millard Fillmore would be an improvement over using George yet again. He has the dollar bill and the quarter. The man has done enough -- let him rest!
This is just one more example of your tax dollars -- literally -- at work. Can't somebody in Washington get their thumbs out of their asses long enough to go to the White House Web site and pick another POTUS to honor? John Adams provided most of the ideas for the Declaration of Independence and got the war financed. Can't he get a coin?
I'd even take Martin Sheen since probably half the country thinks he actually was the President because of all his years on The West Wing.
And what the hell am I going to do with all those $1 coins anyway? Hope my bank will trade them in for real money.
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And you KNOW people give you that look when you try to pay with a $1 coin. No one wants them!
Yeah. I may try it at lunch today. I will probably feel compelled, though, to mention that these are dollars, not quarters.
Wonder if they'll get rejected?
It's legal tender, can anyone really reject them?
I give them out as change at Ben & Jerry's becuase people think they're quarters and throw them in the tip jar. I'm so smart.
Marie ... tsk tsk! Then I bet you cash those $1 coins in B&J register, walking out with clean crisp $1 bills!
Marie, that's a pretty clever strategy. Gotta love the stupid people.
I think it's more likely that the design of the new coin was promoted by those guys hawking coin sets and knife sets at 3:00 in the morning. They'll put it in a plastic case with some numbering on it (and calling it a grading) and sell you a $1 coin for $20 (plus $3.95 S&H). They're probably the ones behind the conspiracy and the government is just the pidgeon.
Seriously. Does anyone think the Susan B. Anthony coin was a failure because of who was on the coin? I'd bet most people have to at least pause and think about who is on what coin and denomination. Nobody cares that is was Susan B. It was too close to the size of a quarter and that was confusing. These are no better and will suffer the same fate.
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