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<p>[QUOTE="coinnewbie01, post: 339489, member: 12176"]howdy everyone. just thought i'd share a funny little story with you:</p><p><br /></p><p> every sunday, my friends and i hit the gym. after the work out we head over to our local Baja Fresh. for those of you who dont know what a Baja Fresh is, its an upscale taco bell that is absolutely delicious. so today we head over as usual and i order my giant burrito and beverage, and the total comes to $8.78. i hand the young female cashier $9.00, all monroe presidential dollars! she stands there and looks puzzled staring into her hand, then at me, then back at her hand. i ask her if there is a problem, and she asks me to please wait a moment while she gets the manager. the manager comes up, and asks what the problem is, and i told him i have no problem at all. she then turns to the manager and asks him how does she enter in gold "tokens" as payment. he looks at her like she had 3 heads and says "what?!?" she shows him the dollars and he looks right at her and asks if she is stupid? those are dollars he tells her. she says to him, "no they arent, the dollar coins have a little indian girl on them, these have some guy on them." all the while i am holding out from laughing out loud at this poor girl, who has no idea what is going on. she finally understands and accepts the money and completes the transaction. i find it amazing that a) todays youth doesnt know anything about current u.s. money, b) they have no idea about u.s. presidents, and c) well there is no c. its just a little scarry to think that some day, these kids will run this country.</p><p>thanks for reading,</p><p><br /></p><p>Greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="coinnewbie01, post: 339489, member: 12176"]howdy everyone. just thought i'd share a funny little story with you: every sunday, my friends and i hit the gym. after the work out we head over to our local Baja Fresh. for those of you who dont know what a Baja Fresh is, its an upscale taco bell that is absolutely delicious. so today we head over as usual and i order my giant burrito and beverage, and the total comes to $8.78. i hand the young female cashier $9.00, all monroe presidential dollars! she stands there and looks puzzled staring into her hand, then at me, then back at her hand. i ask her if there is a problem, and she asks me to please wait a moment while she gets the manager. the manager comes up, and asks what the problem is, and i told him i have no problem at all. she then turns to the manager and asks him how does she enter in gold "tokens" as payment. he looks at her like she had 3 heads and says "what?!?" she shows him the dollars and he looks right at her and asks if she is stupid? those are dollars he tells her. she says to him, "no they arent, the dollar coins have a little indian girl on them, these have some guy on them." all the while i am holding out from laughing out loud at this poor girl, who has no idea what is going on. she finally understands and accepts the money and completes the transaction. i find it amazing that a) todays youth doesnt know anything about current u.s. money, b) they have no idea about u.s. presidents, and c) well there is no c. its just a little scarry to think that some day, these kids will run this country. thanks for reading, Greg[/QUOTE]
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