It's funny, but in the US, coins are so rarely used, in fact, mostly frowned upon, it's fairly odd to find a vendor who doesn't just round everything (usually up) to the nearest dollar (and if they don't, they are simply expecting you to tip the balance to the *next* dollar), "five twenny five" for nearly a pint of beer was a particularly cheeky example...which almost had to end on a seven... >:(
It was with some amusement then, that I found the "bill" point on the vending machine down the hall from my room, being in a stimulant rather than depressant kind of mood this evening, having been largely fobbed off with Canadian quarters (probably because of my English accent) in SoHo of late...I was rather only armed with a massive number of 50p notes (again!)...I mean, can you imagine that in England? We abandoned all that virtually worthless paper many years ago in favour of our little gold coins...doesn't make sense financially, for the mint, I guess, but it's a whole lot easier to tell how much money is in your wallet...just pick it up... ;)
Anyway, here is something you won't see outside of the US, a vending machine for Pepsi that is happy to eat dollar bills (with added scary/happy yumming noise)...Video here...
Later when Youtube manages to sort it's shit out...Ah, finally... ;) Now I'm off for to find some dinner... ;)
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