Embarrasing Incident Today

Thats great!

Have not embarrassed myself but my daughter gets peeved because I check all my change before I hand it to a cashier.

Reading through the story I thought for sure I would get to the end and he thought you were stealing the coffee money.

Lol I have received those weird looks while poking through the "leave a penny" tray looking for wheat cents or copper cents. Normally I would put more in than I took out but after awhile all the weird looks was enough.

Sometimes reverse psychology works on these folks. I would have told him, "I am pretty weird ain't I". ;)

Vermontensium, I hear you, but I have to work with these people. I'm probably going to tone it down a bit. I'll still check my floor's coffee kitty every time I get a cup, but my other-floorly excursions will probably stop for a while. At least until performance reviews are completed.

Some good things have come out of past experiences though. Several people at work now regularly bring me their change rather than rolling it and taking it to the bank. I cash them out and check it myself before depositing it.

lol onetime I went to a bank and was like
"um I need to load up" (said to myself)
pulled up my left hand and started counting using my index finger on my right and touching each one starting at the thumb and moving to the next finger after stating a denomination
I was like
"Can I get a box of pennies"
moved to next finger
"box of nickels"
moved to next finger
"box of dimes"
moved to next finger
"box of quarters
moved to next fingers
"half dollars"

the lady just looked at me like

After staring at me for a couple of seconds I decided that it wasn't going anywhere so I proceeded to ask
"do you halves?"
she shook her had and then asked me
"what the HECK are you going to do with all of that"
I didn't know how to respond and said
"*laughing* I need them, can you withdraw it from my savings"
She looked at one of the other tellers and the other teller told her some number (probably a code for boxes or something or perhaps the total)
she goes on her computer and was like
"that's 875 dollars and just stared at me like "
I was like
"uh yep *laughs*"
and then proceed to confirm on the touch screen after sliding my card the total. She then started bending over behind the counter and pulling up one box at a time. After half way through she asked me "did you eat a big brefest this morning?"
At the time I didn't know what she was referring to so I just laughed and said yep (most likely how heavy all the coin was)
After putting all the coins in my book bag I was like
"thank you very much"
smiled and just walked away
it was pretty awkward as my bookbag could hardly hold them and it was during prime time 1:00 P.M. with lots of people in the bank
I just laughed and walked out the door as people stared at me as I struggled to stand up straight

it was hilarious lol.

My findings
1 - silver rosevelt dime
1 - silver 1944 Washington quarter
1 - war time nickel 1943 P

the pennies was a new box of 2011 cents, might bring it back to a different bank or try to use it as cash and buy, it's an unoppened box of 25 dollars of pennies straight from the bank lol, or perhaps just hoard it.

it actually wasn't so bad
i find coin roll hunting pennies a terrible pain
coin roll hunting dimes and quarters I can do really really fast, pretty much take an extra 5 seconds after opening a roll to look for any silver and then dump the rest
nickels I have to flip over every single nickel and looking for the mint mark above the building
i don't trust just looking at the edge, the silver War Nickels turn a nasty ugly gray and can be easily spotted by looking at the edges, if the coin is however in good shape it may retain a very similar coloring to normal nickels, so I've heard so I checked every single one. found a couple of canadian nickles that were mostly nickel or whatever and are worth more than 5 cents in melt value, other than that I just dump the rest

for whatever reason the BoA I'm at dosen't have a fee to deposit coins you just pour into a bag and they send it to be counted, I guess it's risky because someone else is counting your change or whatever but it's the best I got.