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

[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.