sorry we only have new quarters

[trunks2k]

I like having dollar coins around. I normally don't use cash at all, but when I do, it's usually for small purchases in some sort of machine (vending or tokens), and dollar coins work so much better in them. I almost missed the last train from the airport one night because I couldn't get the F*ing ticket machine to take my only dollar bill - I had no other US currency on me at the time.

[Bella_Vixen]

I've seen vending machines that wouldn't accept the new quarters, but I figure they would be all modified now to accept them . . . maybe he didn't even try . . .

When the washing machines don't take my new quarters, I just flip them around and put them in the other way. Works like a charm.

[bean]

Man, at the gas station I'd get them all the time. Tried giving them out as change. That didn't work. Eventually I just put them in my last drop envelope of my shift.

A guy at 7-11 actually gave me a couple of old Susan B Anthony coins last night as change. He apologized and said he was waiting on the safe to spit out more $1's (it was 3 in the morning) - I told him it didn't bother me at all, just caught me off guard.

Of course, when I pulled up to get gas, he was outside smoking a cigarette and started to make a beeline for the door - I told him "hey finish your cigarette, I'll just wait out here until you're done". He gave me a look until I told him I'd worked retail... and know how expensive smokes are (I was also getting a pack of cigs).

He finished his cig, we BS'd about how slow of a night it'd been.