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It Finally Happened To Me...

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TomB

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...I received a Sacagecrappa in change. 893whatthe.gif Well, not exactly in a non-force-fed-transaction, rather, I had to buy stamps from the vending machine in the post office and it spit these abominations back at me! 893naughty-thumb.gif All I had was a $20 so I bought a book of 20 stamps for $7.40 and received 11 Sacagecrappas and one SBA back, as well as two Washingtons and one Roosevelt. In all the years of the SBA, this is only the second I have received in change; the first was given to me by a toll bridge worker as a quarter.

 

Oh well, next time I buy stamps they're going right back to the post office till. 893frustrated.gif

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jtryka

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Quit your whining! Would you rather have gotten a tray full of Ikes??? Next time stand in line and wait like the rest of us, then you can whine about the line instead of your change! 893blahblah.gifmakepoint.gifhi.gif Although I can sympathize as I received and SBA not too long ago and spent it quickly (the Sacs are at least a different color, so I don't mind them as much). flowerred.gif

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chrisfuccione

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I like them. I try and give them out as change whenever I can to my customers. You should see thier looks from shock and horror to confustion. The bad thing is I have a few customers who know I collect that come in to my store just to grab them and look through my change for state quarters(thats after I cherry picked all the change!). CHRIS

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Hoot

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What is the hatred all about??? Like Jeff, I can understand why a person wouldn't want a stack of Ikes, but man-o-man! Sounds like you had a day about like mine, Tom! smirk.gif Have a drink. I'll buy (with a stack of Sacs) the next time I see you! wink.gif

 

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TomB

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I don't like the Sacs to begin with, but what I really don't like is the stupidity of making both Sacs and paper money. That's what really bugs me. Oh yeah, that and the fact of having to carry in my pocket a bazillion (technical term) token-looking coins in my pocket.

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gmarguli

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A while back I got some from the Post Office vending machine. Next time I took them back and paid for postage with them. She said that they didn't have a place for them in her cash drawer. 27_laughing.gif

 

One thing that is great about the Post Office vending machines is that you can get rid of all your change in it. I'll bring a big bag of change that I've saved and just feed it into the machine and buy books of stamps. Since my wonderful bank charges 10c a roll to deposit rolled coins, this is an easy and cheap way to get rid of them. Just make sure there aren't people waiting behind you since it might take a long time to feed the machine with nickels.

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TJ

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Someone told me you can put, say, $20 worth of nickels in the PO stamp machine, then buy 1 book of stamps (or less) and the machine will give your change back in dollar coins.

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Just make sure there aren't people waiting behind you since it might take a long time to feed the machine with nickels.

 

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Excellent idea. insane.gif

 

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TJ

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I can't imagine Greg caring if a line of 10 people are waiting behind him impatiently, unless of course, he's gone soft in his old age. (Ref: shoulder-bashing the woman who refused to yield right of way in shopping mall, classic stuff that.)

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gmarguli

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I can't imagine Greg caring if a line of 10 people are waiting behind him impatiently, unless of course, he's gone soft in his old age. (Ref: shoulder-bashing the woman who refused to yield right of way in shopping mall, classic stuff that.)

 

I wouldn't really care too much and if they were jerks about it, I'd feed in every coin as slow as possible. I'd also stop after getting a pack of stamps and let a nice, polite person go ahead of me.

 

And I didn't shoulder bash the woman. She walked into me. She got what she deserved.

 

BTW, I did find the story that I posted about it:

 

Women Walking Right at You

Wednesday May 08, 2002

 

How often does this happen to you (men only)?: You're walking straight and a woman is walking toward you. As soon as she sees a man walking toward her, rather than her stay in a straight line, she walks at a slight angle until she is walking directly at you. At this point the man has to step to the side in order to avoid walking right into her. She has no interest in meeting you or anything like that. She only wants you to step to the side.

 

This happens to me all the time. I hate it. Why do you women do this???

 

I'm at an outdoor mall today and this happened to me. I know I am walking in a straight line since I can clearly see the floor tiles are lined up straight. This woman who was about 150 feet in front of me starts walking in my direction. I'm in a big hurry and walking briskly and I'm not about to step out of the way because some insufficiently_thoughtful_person woman wants to play games. She starts moving over toward me (away from the shops). She moved over about 6-8 feet until she was coming directly at me. When she is about 5 feet in front of me she realizes I'm not going to move and she darts to the left side of me, but she can't get out of the way in time. I continue in a perfectly straight line. My left elbow hits her in the breast rather hard (I'm walking fast). She lets out an loud groan. I didn't turn around to see her reaction. I'm sure she didn't fall over or anything like that. I let out a sarcastic uuuuuhhhhhhhh and then burst out laughing as I'm walking away. It just was so funny to me what happened. I wonder if she'll be playing this mind game with other people in the near future.

 

Was I wrong for not moving over? I could have easily, but I didn't think I should have to. She, like so many women, walked directly into my path on purpose. She clearly saw me and could have moved over any time while approaching me.

 

Was I wrong for laughing? Am I worse than braddick for flushing his fish? Should I never step aside again and see how many women I can hit with my elbow?

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DonHeath

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My left elbow hits her in the breast rather hard

 

OK, so you had your elbows out, but you still showed weakness. You didn't duck your head for the tackle. 893applaud-thumb.gif27_laughing.gif

 

 

BTW - Tom, I felt that way about the SBA, the barrel plated Lincoln, and the spaghetti hair redesigned Washingtons and Kennedys. wink.gif

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