I was off sick today from work and while i could have gone in and soldiered on, i am really over work right now with constant demands on my time that just never seem to ease up. By mid morning i was feeling better but why waste feeling better on actually going to work.
I did take the opportunity to collect up all the coins i had lying around the place. Turns out I had $402.70 lying around being wasted so i deposited it in the bank. They have this weird machine you put your coins in yourself and it counts your money for you before you just take the print out to the counter where they credit your account. It turns out through my experience that i have now that you shouldn’t load up the coins because they get stuck. Then you get your finger stuck in the machine. Without going into detail its hard to look cool with your finger getting stuck in a coin counting machine.
For no apparent reason the machine rejects some coins for no apparent reason and so i grabbed the coins out of the rejected slot. Seems unlike some people, i collect the coins and there was a couple of copper coins. Obviously they like me don’t have a lot of use for them and just leave them. What am i supposed to do with it i am not sure since its not as if you can get anything with anything less than a pile of 5 cent pieces, yet alone 1 and 2 pieces.
And thats about that.





2 Comments Received
April 12th, 2008 @11:26 am
Yes, putting a finger in machinery is a no-no…hopefully you are okay. What type of percentage are they charging you to count your change? My bank does 3% and my last bank didn’t even count and sort, they did the coin roller thing. I remember when you could go into your branch and just give them whatever you had with no fees. The banks are villifying coins!
April 12th, 2008 @11:31 am
Heh, just realized you were Aussie so maybe my anecdote doesn’t apply. Three percent does seem to be the bare minimum in the United States but the consumer machines at the supermarkets charge a whopping 9%!
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