I like the dollar coins myself, but they are a pain to use from time to time.

True story:

Stopped by the post office to pick up some stamps. From my last trip I stuck a $20 in the machine and it spit out my book of stamps and my change in the lovely $1 coins. Ok, np. Put em in the drawer at home and waited until I had to buy stamps again.

Fast forward about a year.

Back at the post office, armed with $1 coins to buy some more stamps. Machine is on the fritz this time around so I get to stand in line at the counter.

Get up there, ask for a book of stamps and proceed to pay for them with the aforementioned $1 coins. The clerk looks at me like I'm from another planet and flatly states:

" You can't use those to pay for this. "

* What follows is my best " Don't make me throw these at you " look *

I remind the clerk that these very coins came out of THEIR GD stamp machine and if they're good enough to give to me, then they're good enough to give back.

Long story short, she shut up took the coins and I was on my merry way.



-Daye