Sit on a cardboard box?
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
Atlantic Canadian Monday Madness
[NAFDA] We used to get Buffy the day before everyone else, now we get Angel a week after everyone else. And Firefly every Monday!
Elena - Sep 25, 2003 8:46:24 am PDT #3829 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
MechaKrelboyne - Sep 25, 2003 8:46:56 am PDT #3830 of 6793
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
Nah. Milk crates all the way.
Elena - Sep 25, 2003 8:47:24 am PDT #3831 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
Milk crates will waffle your ass.
I thought you ditched most of your crates?
JohnSweden - Sep 25, 2003 8:50:03 am PDT #3832 of 6793
I can't even.
Not to mention not liking our funny coin money.
That part bugs me. In the highway food=gas stop at charming (and by that I mean hellish) Angola, NY, a service person once told me to refrain from even thinking about giving her some of our crappy coins in payment. I was offended on about 3 levels at once since I was intending on paying in the monotone crappy currency, I like our coins, and I hated the lousy service there anyway.
Elena - Sep 25, 2003 9:02:24 am PDT #3833 of 6793
Thanks for all the fish.
So true. Who would go to another country and expect to pay in their own currency?
Oh, wait...
And I love the coins. I just hate 'loonie' and 'twonie'.
MechaKrelboyne - Sep 25, 2003 9:02:28 am PDT #3834 of 6793
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
I ditched most of them, so I only have 8 or 10 left. And we have a few cushions to stave off ass wafflage.
MechaKrelboyne - Sep 25, 2003 9:06:24 am PDT #3835 of 6793
... and that's a Pantera's box you don't want to open. - Mister Furious
That part bugs me. In the highway food=gas stop at charming (and by that I mean hellish) Angola, NY, a service person once told me to refrain from even thinking about giving her some of our crappy coins in payment. I was offended on about 3 levels at once since I was intending on paying in the monotone crappy currency, I like our coins, and I hated the lousy service there anyway.
I'm betting that this person is of the same ilk as those who'd not only pay with the drab money up here (which I had no problem with even when I workded retail) but also deems arguing about getting their change in said drabness more important than the twenty people waiting behind them. Now where did I put that gun...
Megan E. - Sep 25, 2003 9:06:39 am PDT #3836 of 6793
I love the coins too. It makes it super easy to save money when you don't spend any two dollar coins.
Megan E. - Sep 25, 2003 9:07:45 am PDT #3837 of 6793
I wonder if Americans expect to get american currency when they travel in Australia and Europe, or if it's just strictly a thing they do in Canada.
(Not that they all do this - I shouldn't generalize so much)
askye - Sep 25, 2003 9:11:20 am PDT #3838 of 6793
Thrive to spite them
I hate our drab money and I wish the $1 coins had worked out. Except the government didn't just say "okay, we're going with $1 coins and we aren't going to circulate any more bills so get used to it."
I kept hearing people bitch "where will they go in register tills" um, yeah there's already an extra little slot for coins. And "I don't want to carry around so many coins, it will be heavy." Like someone is going to end up carrying around $15 in $1 coins, you spend them or change them or whatever. One dollar bills accumlulate. Seriously I figured out the other day I had $20 in ones. I'm not even sure how I got that many except someone paid me in ones instead of fives and then I kept some instead of spending them.
I'm dreading people's reaction to the new $20 bills that are going into circulation later this year, they are vaguely peach colored. Americans get so freaked out about inconsequential things.