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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2008-06-04 08:17 am

National degeneracy

Kids these days.  Handed coins to the guy behind the counter this morning, a quarter, three dimes, and a nickel, $.60 US as usual for the morning paper.  Which is the correct price.  He claimed he needed another dime...

Took him three tries to decide I had it right.

If you can't count money, you're gonna have a few problems with the modern world.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2008-06-04 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought decimalization had solved the shillings/pence/etc. hassle.

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2008-06-04 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It may have, but my grandmother left Ireland in 1912.