Posts Tagged ‘money’

Canadian currency as change

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Why is it that vending machines in the United States will happily give you Canadian quarters as change yet won’t accept the same coin as valid currency when you try to purchase something with one? Sorry, I had a chocolate craving which must now go unsatisfied, and I felt like sharing. ;-)

Gas prices of yore

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Back in June 2005, I wrote this post and noted at the end that “these gas prices suck.” Wow. Those sub-three dollar prices seem like quite the bargain today, just two years later!