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| descent of the damned |
Acting in solidarity with those unfortunate enough to have money deposited in Spanish banks, I decided to cash out my spare change box, while the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters it held still had some kind of value.
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| LSP savings and loans |
With a sense of fiscal cliff urgency I drove to the local supermarket, box of change in hand, and loaded it into Coinstar, which turns your metal money into a redeemable IOU, for a fee.
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| how much does it cost? |
I didn't care about the fee. I just wanted the money, fast, while it could still buy something. So I emptied the box into the machine. Clang, clunk, went the cash. $53.65 went the Coinstar, on its screen, and then it stopped working. "Sorry, I've seen your money, but I can't give it to you," stated the mechanical thief.
"Customer Service" was no use because the talent was busy talking to a policewoman about a picture on his CCTV (close circuit television) and I began to panic. Would I ever get my money? Will I get arrested for asking? I got the cash and avoided prison, in the end, and by some miracle Coinstar Currency still had fractional buying power.
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| oh. dear. |
But don't worry. If we print enough money then everyone will become rich!
Just like in Rhodesia Zimbabwe.
LSP
6 comments:
Thanks for reminding us of the fate that befell the once great country of Rhodesia. I'm a late student of it's history, and I'm troubled by some of the similarities I see between it and the US. Both surrounded by commie insurgents, both harried from outside by international condemnation for her politics... I suppose one could add that both elected a black man as president who promised gifts to all from the labor of the producers, while demonizing those same producers.
OK, now I get it. QEternity...
At first I thought you were describing an obscure area of the Pashtun belt...
Yes, we'll all be millionaires by the time Bernanke's done!
$53.65? Why that's about as much as I'd pay for the definitely not fake "Jesus Wife" papyrus.
Well done the Bushes, for getting you in to this mess (Un-paid for wars)
and to the current lot(s) for doing nothing about it, because they are too busy faction-fighting.
You've lived in Texas too long LSP - time to come home to reality...
Ah hah! Lukeya.
Hope your return to the Old country wasn't too fraught.
But England? Reality? Can't own a pistol there, old boy.
Give my best to all.
Cheers.
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