You know you're a coin collector when...

Okay, let's hear your best one liners on when you know you're a coin collector!

Mine came to me last night as I was on the way to the local coin club:

You know you're a coin collector when you're sweating in a car with perfectly good air conditioning because you're directing all the cold air towards your coins to keep them from overheating.

 

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When you'll give a beggar on a street corner your lunch but won't give him your change.

 

Mine was when I had to sit in the back seat because my coins needed to have a over the shoulder seatbelt

 

You know you're a coin collector when you're at the register waiting to receive .97 cents in change but they round it up and they give you a dollar bill, then you come out and say "I want my .97 Cents!"

 

...and then you walk away, poring over the change...

...forgetting your groceries.

 

When you're 10 years old, and you persuade your dad's barber to "watch his change" for old coins, and yes, in 1955, most "old" coins were in fact Barber coins.

You explain this a dozen times to your mom, but she doesn't "get it."

 

When your collection is worth more than your car.

 

^ and your house

 

Maybe when you grade cars. "That's an old Chevy, but I'd say it's still XF45"

 

I was born in 1945 and my mother was a schoolteacher who sometimes had to do schoolbus duty after school, and on those days we would eat in a restaurant. The restaurant owner would let me go through the cash register and that is where I built my first collection. I never found a barber coin or an indian head cent in change for all the years I did this.

 

You know you're a coin collector when...

...you call yourself a coin collector, and nobody disagrees with you.

 

You know you're a coin collector when...

...you're already broke the day after receiving your salary and there are 29 more days to "survive" until the next paycheck.

 

You hate people with artificially toned voices.

 

I'll just use the same ones I used previously.

You know you're a coin collector when........

......you look over the shoulder of the person checking out ahead of you to see what change they got from the cashier.

......when the cashier opens the drawer, you lean across the checkout counter to look into the drawer.

......after the cashier has given you your change, you refuse to leave until you have checked every coin.

Chris

 

You know you're a coin collector when....

....you get chest pain and sweaty hands when someone talks about cleaning a coin.

....you have an urge to hold all coins by the edges, even the ones you get in change.

 

Nah, even the non-collectors in my family hate autotune.

 

when you name your dog Carson...or Morgan

 

When you empty the guns out of your safe to make room for coins.

 

Kids, do NOT touch my coins! errrm... sure... you can play with the guns

 

Dog? How about naming your sons Julian and Alexander?