Yesterday we bug-bombed our ant-infested car and needed something to do while the fumes worked their magic. We decided to go see a flick but didn't want use our week's date money on a Monday. I raided my change cup instead.
The change cup has been hit pretty hard recently so all it had left was dimes and under. Anyway- we had enough dimes and nickles to pay for a pair of movie tickets. To make things easier for the ticket guy we separated all the change in little baggies and added up the totals. But when we paid, he said he had to count it all out by hand. Super-lame!
He didn't count out our 100 dimes and our 60 nickles. Instead, he just stood there holding the baggies- looking at them. Then he'd move a few coins around and sigh, then he'd look at us, then look and the coins and sigh again. Eventually he must have decided that counting up all our change wasn't worth his time. Since he couldn't print us a ticket without counting the coins, he let us keep them, and told us to go see the show without paying.
What the what!? Go without paying? How awesome is that! There is such thing as a free lunch, and it's at the Great Escape Mega-Plex. So now we'll never have to pay for a movie again. We'll just keep breaking out the coin baggies over and over.
I highly recommend everyone do this, just don't do it at the same place I do, because then I will have to cut you.
7 comments:
Hot Tip! I discovered this a couple of years ago. Banks and most grocery stores have FREE change counters. You dump all your change into the machine, it counts the change in about 5 seconds, and spits out the total on a receipt. You take the receipt to the desk and presto chango, they give you paper money. It is MAGIC!
And The Little Guy declares victory over The Man.
cooldad: Change counters take 12 percent. Besides, how would that help get free movies?
CoolBoy: Heck yes!
Maybe change counters where you are fleece you for 12%, but at my bank it is free, free, FREE!
Valli! Is that your tummy in the photo? Your shirt looks a little snug! Could that possibly be my first glimpse of the new little precious hiding under there? I hope so; I am so excited!
Way to call people fat in their moment of victory, Mom.
Verification word: Prepin. As in, prepin' for some free movies tonight.
All the change machines I've seen charge a LOT so I refuse to use them. If that shirt is snug on you, then sign me up, cuz all I see is a baggy shirt.
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