Out running errands this afternoon, I drove through the local convenience store for a diet Coke. The charge was $2.05 for which I gave the clerk $2 and a dime at which point he asked if I wanted the nickel. I’m wondering when a nickel became as useless as a penny. I’ve never had anyone ask me if I wanted the nickel before. I said yes and added, I’ll need it when I come by for another diet Coke. I was trying to be clever. The clerk smiled at me with the disdain of the young talking to an old woman who, he thought, probably needed every nickel she could keep. Actually I don’t need the nickel, and I wanted to tell him that it was the point, not the nickel. Of course that sounds exactly what an old woman would say. I could envision him shaking his head and smiling to himself as he recalled his elderly grandmother asking him to show her how to use her cell phone. I was quietly infuriated, but I had my nickel.
Nickels to Pennies
Nickels to Pennies
Nickels to Pennies
Out running errands this afternoon, I drove through the local convenience store for a diet Coke. The charge was $2.05 for which I gave the clerk $2 and a dime at which point he asked if I wanted the nickel. I’m wondering when a nickel became as useless as a penny. I’ve never had anyone ask me if I wanted the nickel before. I said yes and added, I’ll need it when I come by for another diet Coke. I was trying to be clever. The clerk smiled at me with the disdain of the young talking to an old woman who, he thought, probably needed every nickel she could keep. Actually I don’t need the nickel, and I wanted to tell him that it was the point, not the nickel. Of course that sounds exactly what an old woman would say. I could envision him shaking his head and smiling to himself as he recalled his elderly grandmother asking him to show her how to use her cell phone. I was quietly infuriated, but I had my nickel.