A Customers Horror Story

Me too since in my experience, vending machines reject silver coins.

Sounds like a lot of members here do not know a teenager or don't remember being one. They normally have a different idea of things than real people do. Ond neighbor of mine had his entire collection of coins stolen by his own grandson, a teenager. He spent the entire collection on girls, shows, booze, etc.
Many home invasions are from teenagers and the coins stolen usually end up in coin counting machines. Almost all drive by shootings around the Chicago area are teenagers. They kill kids, women, men, other teenagers all the time and they are only teenagers.
Way, way back when I was a teenager my Dad always gave me Silver Dolllars thinking I was saving them. Not a chance. All were spent on having fun. Many, many coin collections are robbed by familly members and spent as if just money. Even those that know they are or may be worth something, end up taking the easy way of just dumping into machines.
Probably one of the reasons there is that old saying "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drimk"

"He spent the entire collection on girls, shows, booze, etc."

At least he knows how to spend a buck and have a good time ;-)
Teenagers can't be trusted, any insurance company will tell you that.

This could always go the other way too. While I feel for those with teenagers who could care less in some situations it is the parents who have no idea and can't seem to wrap their heads around why I even save them in the first place. *sigh*

I had a few coins as souvenirs given to me by my dad, my sisters and my grandfather(1930's Canadian silver, foreign stuff from holidaying and such). I thought they were way cool and probably even cleaned some of them up. I was a teen at the time... now I was no angel or anything, and I became the haphazard collector I am for other reasons, but I still have them...

Surely there are some teen collectors who need to have their say...
it can't be all gunplay and loose morals, or did I just miss out?

Now when you were younger, did you ever spend off things you were trying to keep? In my teens, I spent a set of two consecutive * serial number dollar bills that I had hung onto for about a year. Then before I got married I borrowed a coin from my State Quarter set to feed the laundry machine when I was 1 or 2 quarters short (always choosing recent/low quality quarters to pop out of the album).

I do kinda regret the dollars.

Speeking about the easy way out, my friend don found a odd coin in the change machine in quality markets (he worked there). it was a $10 eagle...lucky, being on the inside and all lol.