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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1899467, member: 24633&quot;]Jak, your poll didn&#039;t allow for my example, so......................</p><p><br /></p><p>The worst thing that I ever encountered was something I <b><i>didn&#039;t</i></b> get.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many years ago, I regularly searched $1,000 of half dollars every week. I was on good terms with, Laurie, the head cashier at my BoA branch. I had a standing order for the two boxes, and she even provided me with the coin wrappers so I could re-roll them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The order would be placed on Monday, and they would arrive after closing Wednesday afternoon for pick-up on Thursday morning. On a couple of occasions, I would order $1,000 in quarters in addition to the half dollars because it was easy to spot silver coins in the plastic shrink-wrap. Normally, I would be at the bank just before they opened at 9am, but on one particular Thursday, I didn&#039;t arrive until a few minutes after 9am because I was fooling around on the computer. Bear in mind that, while the boxes ordered by customers are reserved for them in the vault, the boxes are doled out to those customers on a first-come, first-served basis.</p><p><br /></p><p>After returning to the house with the four boxes of quarters and halves, I went to work ripping open the half dollar rolls to look for silver because they would take the longest time to search, and I usually return the boxes the same afternoon. The quarters took less than an hour since I didn&#039;t have to open the rolls to check them.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I returned to the bank about 2pm, Laurie said, &quot;You&#039;ll never guess what happened!&quot; She told me that the manager of a convenience store had come in just a couple of minutes before me for his order which included one $500 box of quarters, and he returned a couple of hours later asking if they had another box. Laurie said she expressed her disbelief that the store could have gone through that many quarters in such a short time. The manager said they hadn&#039;t, but when he opened the box, he discovered that they were <b>ALL</b> silver. At that time, the $500 box had a melt value of $4,500!</p><p><br /></p><p>So you see, if I hadn&#039;t been fooling around on the computer, I would have been the first customer at the bank. C&#039;est la vie!</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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