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.