Don't you just love . . .

[unixronin]

. . . the way US stores, gas stations etc won't accept Canadian coinage from you, but are quite happy to slip it to you in your change?

Comments

[bbwoof.livejournal.com]

Don't be too quick to criticize... most sales clerks aren't looking at the coins any closer than you are.

If you would examine your change before you leave the counter the way your mother taught you when you were first learning to count money, then you would have the option of refusing to accept that foreign currency. If you politely point out to the clerk that this coin is not appropriate change, he or she will very likely replace it for you with an appropriate U.S. coin.

If you simply must get angry about this... well, get angry at yourself.

[bfudlmint.livejournal.com]

You would think so but living on the Canadian border I often received canadian change. More than once the cashier was annoyed that I demanded my 2 cents change to be in the correct currency.

[attutle.livejournal.com]

"Don't see the fnords and they won't eat you"

[rbos.livejournal.com]

I'll take it. ^_^

[mrfy.livejournal.com]

It is quite annoying, and more so when you live close to the Canadian border.

I have a problem here in the UK that the coins are all the wrong size from what I'm used to. I hate to keep people waiting so instead of fumbling to get the change right, I just hand em a pound coin or a note. So now I'm always carrying around a bunch of change.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

yeah, I know how that goes. I tend to accumulate change.

You know the nickname for the 50p coin? Shortly after it came out, people started calling it the Wilson, after then-PM Harold Wilson ... because just like him, it had many sides and two faces.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

You know the one pound coin got nicknamed the "Maggie"? It's thick and brassy and thinks it's a sovereign.

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

On our way back from Toronto, all we had was Canadian money. We needed gas badly, so we pulled into a gas station somewhere in Buffalo. The attendant was more than happy to not only take Canadian currency, but give us change in US currency. I thanked her profusely :)

We went to the airport the next day to get the bills changed out. The coins are still around somewhere since the coin machine was broken and the service desk didn't do coins...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seems folks closer to the border (who have to deal with a lot more of $OTHER_COUNTRY's currency) are a lot more relaxed about it.