Caused a ruckus at Taco Bell

meant wledswift's departed old man the "gold coin" to pretty gals just sounds like he was an interesting character.

Zeke I do think there are a lot of people that think they are real gold dollars... kinda sad.

In reference to your oldness, I always quote "You are only as old as the woman you feel." from Groucho Marx (I think)

 

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When "they" tell me I'm a dirty old man, I keep telling "them" --- I'm not old, I'm not old!!!

 

This gave me a lot of laughs this morning, thanks ' youse' guys.
As Yogi said ' A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore'.

 

Sometimes for fun I'll spend an $2 bill, an Ike and a Kennedy Half all in the same transaction. Really confuses some clerks as there isn't a place in their drawer for any of them My friends and I refer to it as paying with a trifecta.

I also once used 8 Kennedy Halves to pay for lunch and the clerk kept counting them up as $1 each and tried to give me back half of them as change. Sure, I could have gotten lunch half price, but it was more fun trying to get her to count them correctly which ultimately required her manager's assistance.

 

Wow this guy is really crazy.....

 

Heck, you can have this kind of fun with normal money. Ever try to buy something when their computer is on the fritz and doesn't tell the clerk how much to give in change? I was at Wendy's once and my bill was less than $4, I gave the clerk a $10 and I swear I thought I was staring at a deer in my headlights.

Yeah, makes you sad. What the heck DO they teach kids in school? I learned to count back change I think in the 4th grade.

 

I'm not sure it was posted in this thread as I don't have time to read them all, but on day the kid will come home to tell his parents that someone actually used money today to pay for food. He will say, "I never saw money before". Then Dad in the corner of the house who has been collecting coins since he was akid has that smirk on his face becuse people thought he was nerd for collecting coins.

 

<<Yeah, makes you sad. What the heck DO they teach kids in school? I learned to count back change I think in the 4th grade.>>

I graduated in 1953. I had never learned how to make change there. Heck, I didn't even know the alphabet.

When I had to make change, I found counting up from the total was a miracle in its simplicity and ease.

The alphabet I finally learned a few years after college when I worked with Hollerith code. Only now I expect to find a slash between R and S.

In 1960, I was using an abacus to add up 8 place logarithms at work. My boss' boss congratulated me on using a digital computer instead of an analogue slide roule.

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one of the ladys at my job was pushing a wheel chair and the customer i guess was wealthy and tried to give her a large 1 and 5 blue wheel note 1924-1934 as a tip.. the lady refuse .. i told her.. she was stupid to refuse she could of just handed you 1000 usd worth in old currency and youd never know cause your not a collector..

 

I managed to get a few Ikes this summer and spent them. Unfortunately no ruckus. But the employees did take a much longer look at them than anything else, haha.
Oh, they were all smart enough to look at the obverse and reverse (to make sure of it's value).

 

nothing worthwhile i'll tell you that

 

My 4th grade teacher had us add up the lunch money every day. She would write the number of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, halves and bills on the board, and we would have to add it all up and tell her much lunch money was collected that day. Every day. She made darn sure that we learned how to count money!

 

I used to take my kids to the track. We would watch the horses run and I would make my bets........and theirs. lol Both my kids could not only read a racing form but figure the odds, returns and losses by the time they reached 3rd grade. Heck, they could play blackjack by the time they started kindergarden.

They learned how to manage their money early and this carried them through quite well. Both take an active part in managing their own portfolios and retirement plans as well as other financial aspects of their lives. It did not make degenerate gamblers of them. Education is not something freely given. You have to go and get it yourself. IMHO

 

You know what's REALLY sad? It's going to a bank and asking for half dollars and the teller pulls out presidentials and says "You mean these?" No, I mean half dollars. And then she looks at me like I have two heads. You'd think a BANK TELLER, you know, the people who handle American money all day, would know a little bit about American money.

 

I went golfing yesterday and gave everyone in my foursome an Ike dollar to use as a ball marker. Hilarity ensued...

 

I would know an Ike dollar if I saw it, but I've never actually came into contact with one. Ive only seen pictures lol.