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well I'm slightly offended by that remark, but it'll pass. I was born in 85. of course we can blame them. who's responsibility is it to know our currency and our history if it's not ours--and especially theirs? those who refuse to learn about our history, economy, and currency are creating for us all a generation of slaves. any further than that is a discussion for a different time, though.
one word for anyone who thinks it's difficult to learn this stuff: wikipedia Who's responsibility is it to teach someone where the shift key is on a keyboard? Wikipedia? I just find it interesting that this offends you, they should know our coinage, but you can't type one sentence in a row correctly. |
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Well not to rain on the parade here as I love the stories. I would like to add that calling people dumb and stupid because they lack the knowledge of what they are being handed or ask for seems just a bit harsh to me.
I'd buy ignorant as that's more the appropriate word. As many read the forums here and you have to wonder if the use of words like that would cause them not to hang around.
Sorry all I felt I needed to add my 2 cents
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I would like to add that calling people dumb and stupid because they lack the knowledge of what they are being handed or ask for seems just a bit harsh to me.
I'd buy ignorant as that's more the appropriate word. Agreed. This is the age of plastic. Before any of us started collecting coins did we know what a 2 cent piece was? I'm 40, and while I knew what a Morgan dollar was, it was only because my grandfather had collected some. Same with any issuance prior to my birth year, or at least prior to when I started carrying money in my pocket. We never learned about currency in our school besides what was needed at the time to buy things per se. Give these people a break. Lots of folks get part time jobs or full time jobs in fields they know nothing about because there isn't a requirement to have any experience prior. How many kids would know how to drill and tap a hole at a sheet metal shop that required no experience prior to being hired? You learn a lot more through experience than you do from "required reading" while in school folks. |
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I had a guy come up to me once while I was dumping a box of halves and ask me if he could buy some of those "dollar" coins from me. I was nice enough to inform him they only cost 50 cents per piece! I guess I could have tacked on a handling fee of 50 cents per coin!
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I always ask for halves, dollar coins and two dollar bills when I go into the bank and then I procede to spend them. The reactions I get range from I haven't seen one of these for a while to what is it? I spent twenty dollars worth of the new Lincoln dollars at a grocery store and the woman in line behind me promptly bought ten of them from the clerk before she could put them in her drawer. I said I got them from the bank, she said she didn't know that you could. My new years resolution is to not use paper dollars any more and turn in the bills for coins.
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I also spend my dollar coins and half dollars at random stores and get a chuckle out of how many people, both young and old, have no idea that these coins exist. Some promptly ask, "is this real money?" others examine the coin silently before placing it in their drawer. Anyway, I don't believe that age is a huge factor into knowing our countries coinage/currency. I've had a lot of geezers(no offense, born 1990 here) give me the same comments that the younger folk do, it's just a matter of if the person cares to know or not. The same can be applied to anything really. I don't know squat about cars despite being 20 year old male, and some of the people I know act like I'm an idiot for not "knowing or caring". 9/10 tellers you encounter have a high probability of working there just for the sake of having a job. I know in my case I work at a clothing store and I hate fashion and all that jazz. It's just a paycheck at the end of the week. However you could argue that if they had any sort of work ethic they would attempt to learn everything they could about that job to better oneself, but I'm not going to go in circles here. lol I've said enough  |
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This probably happens to a lot of you out there but I always get weird looks when I ask if they have any bank rolled pennies. Oh and I asked a teller once (only a couple months ago) if they had any Presidential dollars and he looked at me like I was from mars. You would think a teller at a bank would know what they are especially sense they have been around for four years... |
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I was at Super Walmart today and remembered they have a bank inside. So, I went up the counter and asked if they had any halves. The teller says "yes we do but the good ones you can't have." I said "what...which are the good ones?" She said "the ones with silver." So, she hands over about 12 halves, I go through them and sure enough no silver. I then I quiz the teller "so, what year has silver?" She said 1956. I said "well, they didn't make Kennedy halves in 1956." The other teller chimes in and says 1965. Yeah, ok, you keep all the 1956 and 1965s and I will take the 1964s, 1966-69. Idiots. I will keep ordering boxes... |
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I had the same experience  when I returned some 1972 Ike dollars. I guess she had never seen any, then insisted they were rolled, but they could not produce anything to roll those old dollars.  Finally agreed to take them. |
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Well, these young people nowadays are pretty bad. I spent several Ikes back in August and one of the kids told me (when I handed him one for a 79 cent purchase), "The cost is 79 cents sir - you only gave me a 50 cent piece."
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