Mtpleasantisnt kindly requests that the T stop using only dollar coins for change:
Hey, braintree T station, if your going to give me fucking dubloons in return for your stupid T cards, you should at least be able to break a 20 in the booth so I don't come home as the proud new owner of 17 dollar coins, I feel like a god damn pirate ...
Be sure to read the comments, especially the one about the Thai restaurant - and the ones from people who like the coins.
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The stamp vending machines
By cynical
Tue, 03/14/2006 - 1:39pm
The stamp vending machines at the post office do the same thing and it makes me crazy. The tradeoff for avoiding a long line to see an actual human is receiving a billion Sacajaweas and Susan B. Anthonys that other businesses look at suspiciously when I try to spend them. If the T and the USPS are going to use these coins, then shouldn't the banks be doing more to incorporate them into our daily currency? I.e., phase out dollar bills so that other stores are also using the coins. Not that I'm so psyched to use the coins more, but then it wouldn't seem like such a huge deal when you get a few of them. Also? Parking meters and coin-op laundries should be calibrated to use the dollar coins.
What we really need are more two-dollar bills
By adamg
Tue, 03/14/2006 - 2:01pm
Those things are cool. Or the Canadian coins with the silverish centers that you used to be able to knock out with the top of a beer bottle.
Clearly, I need to be kept far away from money ...
I love them
By bigdumptruck
Tue, 03/14/2006 - 6:12pm
Having travelled in Europe and used coins to pay for everything, I actually love them. And most vending machines DO take them now.
(Maybe the tooth fairy works for the Post Office because that's what she leaves at our house...)
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BWAHAHA
By Aqua
Thu, 03/16/2006 - 6:43pm
nearly peed myself when I read the "dubloons" comment.