Caused a ruckus at Taco Bell

Great stories everyone! From experience, most people I meet look at dollar coinage in a weird way. I tried to buy fast-food with sac dollars and they looked at me like I was crazy. I had to whip out the dollar bills since the coins were not good enough..:rollling:

 

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Using JFK half dollars, I had a similar experience with two individuals at one location, and another individual at another location. The first man was rather rude. After I exchanged paper for the coins, he laughed and told me to my face that I was an idiot.

I phoned my dad for some reassurance. He commented that although the clad halves were going for a premium at the coin shops, that I did not do any thing especially careless.

Personally, I took the frenzy as a sign that maybe the coin would be worth more in the future. Like the man said who laughed at me with disrespect and insults over my intelligence to make the switch with him (coins for paper)... his words were something like this...."lady, you are stupid, look at how heavy this metal is.....then he added well you sold them to me and they are mine..... I then interjected, "I did not sale them to you, I made an even exchange"....he then scuffed "well they are mine now, you are an idiot if you can't see the value in those coins."

Now that was one weird exchange with a stranger near a pizza counter about 22.00 dollars worth of clad coins.

 

Two gas station stories from a few years back.

1) The soon to be frustrated clerk broke open his last roll of quarters and they were all silver. He had to use them for change. He even offererd me my choice of dates when he gave me change. I didn't fully relize what had just happened until later. I had rolls of clad quarters in my car and we should have worked out some sort of swap and shared the wealth.

2) The clerk refused my roll of quarters. This was because all payments of $10 had to be put in the one way chute to the safe. The roll of quarters would not fit. Heck, I thought he might have wanted them for change. Or he could have opened the roll and put the quarters in that way.

 

When I was younger working midnights at a gas station along the expressway, this guy came in and wanted five dollars in gas. All he had was a brand new 12 inch Craftsman crescent wrench. I gave him five bucks and I still have the wrench.

 

I spend them from time to time but I dont get any hassle, usually a cool thanks for the coins.

 

I was at a local antique mall with my mom and wife a while back. We were in line to pay and the guy in front of me was paying in $2 bills. His bill was over $50 and he payed the entire bill with those $2 bills. Before he walked away, i took a peek at his stash and asked if he would consider trading me some. We exchanged $10 worth and all was good. They were all 2003's that were in fairly rough shape, so nothing special.. A few weeks later, the next door neighbors 7 year old son and a friend of his rang my door bell and asked if the wife and i wanted to hear a song, "but it costs $1" he said, lol. I told him we didnt have any cash, but as he was walking away, i remembered those $2 bills. I called him back, had him sing his little jingle and handed him a $2 bill. i had it folded when i handed it to him. When he was about half way down the drive way he had unfolded it and kinda stutter stepped.. i heard him make a deep gasping sound. i saw him get all excited and tell his friend that it was a $2 bill. He started running and yelled to the friend " c'mon! I'm gunna go show my mom!". That made my day!

Yesterday the wife and i were washing the car in the driveway and his mom happened to be outside. She said that he made her buy a protector for it and he's got it sitting up in his room. Guess I'm going to have to stock some random notes and coinage for the next time he comes back

 

This is a really nice story. Thanks for taking time to write it.

 

I went to various shops earlier today and used halves at pretty much every store. Just about every cashier stared at them, wondering what they were. One asked me what they were, I told her they were half dollars. Then she lays two down and asks me how much that is. I told her a dollar (my bill was $63, $3 of which I paid in halves). She then recounts the halves, has a puzzled look on her face, then realized it was three dollars worth. I swear, some of these teens are complete idiots. I hate when people ask what these are, when it says RIGHT ON THE COIN they are half dollars! lol I get a laugh out of it, but at times, I feel sad for our society.

Some of you mentioned the president dollars give you trouble at times, but I never have trouble with those. I guess they're circulated quite a bit in this area, as cashiers don't think twice when they take them. I see them quite often in cashier drawers. With more and more vending machines spitting them out (prices are going up on everything), they're definitely getting around.

 

Kill two birds with one stone...eat and ask for extra napkins to assist the toning the other Ike's?

 

I have heard about the rukus created when you spend the IKEs, but when I laid some on the counter at the Costco Pharmacy, the clerk took them and never batted an eye. It was like she got them every day. Go figure ?

 

Hey, that's still not as bad as the teen who told me she was driving to Hawaii after graduation. She even went and got a map to show me the highway she planned to take. I gave up on explaining "Latitude & Longitude" lines on maps.

 

My guess is - The clerk moonlights as a coin collector.

 

Costco Pharmacy, you say. OK, Gary, remember what the instructions say. If it lasts longer than four hours, you are in trouble and need immediate relief. What's your plan, my man?

 

If you find they become easily confused when explaining latitude and longitude, try explaining grid north, magnetic north and true north, along with the purpose of the declination diagram. Total meltdown, each and every time.

About the girl planning to drive to Hawaii. Only one latitude is involved, but she will have to negotiate a whole stew pot full of longitudes. One wrong turn and her name will become May West. My sides hurt from laughing --- gotta stop!

 

I will verify the odd reactions to the use of clad halves. I've had most cashiers ask me if they were dollars. I then proceed to tell them they're halves. I guess they've been out of general circulation long enough to have become a spectacle. Man, I'm getting old.

 

that's pretty funny - i'm sure you piqued some interest, even if just for a few minutes. I saw the title and thought this was going somewhere else - like you saw an old coin in one of the donation boxes and just had to have it. =)

 

My Dear Departed Father would carry around a roll of Presidential Dollars in his pocket. Whenever he saw a goodlooking lady he would present her with one of these golden coins. He passed away two years ago and I am still running into his "girlfriends" that have hung on to the GOLD COINS he used to give away.

 

WLEDSWIFT I do hope you know that they are not really gold. I don't believe there is any worthwihile melt value in these presidential dollar coins. This program is so misleading. It is a waste of time in my humble opinion.

 

They have 13 cents worth of melt value I believe... better than a dollar bill

I like your old man by the way, sounds like a good character

 

conpewter, er...''my old man''? I'm 72yrs old. My old man is me. lol..........zeke Thanks anyway.