I’d buy that for a dollar
They need to mint a new set of dollar coins. It’d have a picture of a carwash on one side, and a quarter with a line through it and “For your convenience” embossed on the back. I don’t know what the connection is between carwashes and the dollar coin is, but they have it for eachother big time. For a while it was great, most DIY carwashes would take quarters, $1 and $5 bills, and some even took plastic. Now it’s “Use the goddamn dollar coin or get the FUCK out!”. The best are the machines that dispense their almighty tokens and don’t take quarters, you can only change bills into dollar coins. They tell you this is “for your convenience” using reasoning that’s clearly over my head. I swear, carwashes are the only reason the dollar coin is still in circulation. Thusly my idea for the new coin design. Someone from the US mint must have taken a bullet in the dick for someone at the Underground Carwash Illuminati or something.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
Car washes and MTA/Metro North – which dispenses all your change in dollar coins.
For a while all the rest areas in MA and NH were pushing them too. if you used the vending machines or if there was a vendor kiosk, they’d try as hard as they could to give you dollar coins as change. They let go of it though. No idea what the hate to paper money is with. Nobody wants to carry around a massive slug of change in their pockets.
FWIW, I like having a few dollars in change in my pocket. I wouldn’t object if they made the dollar coin smaller though.
yeah mang, you’ve never bought a $4 metro ticket with a $20 bill and gotten 16 of those fuckers for change.
I think you’re a closet reality fan.
carwashes and subway stations. there’s even new ones out now, that have random presidents instead of sakageueakwkeakepeaeuckewa. they’re gold, and would look smashing filling up a pirate chest or perhaps a doubloon pouch.*
*THIS IS COOL ONLY AT KING RICHARD’S FAIRE AND EVEN THERE IT’S A BIT OF A STRETCH, WEDGIES WILL BE ADMINISTERED AT ALL OTHER TIMES
my local vacuum dealer/tire inflation pump thingy quite inconveniently only takes quarters. they need to put credit card slots in those things. cash is just so…so…passé.
cleaner*
not dealer
i need to get to sleep, for i am qwerty-eyed. @__@