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[learnedax]

LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.

Were we always this stupid, or did someone slip something in the water supply?

Comments

[jducoeur]

"We" is too broad a word. But I wouldn't blame the water supply.

(I've never had anyone refuse to accept my $1 coins, but they do get the hairy eyeball sometimes...)

[elusiveat.livejournal.com]

(I've never had anyone refuse to accept my $1 coins, but they do get the hairy eyeball sometimes...)

I have the vague impression that they are more common in Massachusetts than in other states, but I'm not sure...

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

A friend's brother always talked about going to Best Buy with his friends dressed as pirates and carrying a trunk full of gold $1 coins next time he needed to buy an expensive piece of computer equipment. So far, he's chickened out.

Reading this article, perhaps that's for the best.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

had anyone refuse to accept $1 coins

I have. galaneia has too, IIRC. We had to have the manager come over in one case. I also had some bright bulb at Dunkin' Donuts adamantly refuse a 'new' $20 bill the day after they came out; while I was glad for her initiative, and agreed that the money did look and feel 'fake', it was her insistance that she was right and her boss and co-workers were wrong (and the implication this was all a horrible plot to make her take counterfeit money or something) that made it stick in my mind. The manager eventually rang me out himself...

My most recent anecdote was the cashier refusing my sole Canadian penny in a $8 transaction. Um. Okay, I'm sorry I tried to upset your register balance by 0.18 cents. I'm sure it was worth holding up the line while I dug out another one! (And this cashier is usually rather sensible, too...)