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Well, it wasn’t actually a one-for-one exchange. It’s even better than that. I ordered the laptop, paid with a credit card. And when the bill came, I deposited the rolls into my bank.<\/p>\nI used to collect my pocket change at the end of the day and dump it into a jar. When the jar filled I’d roll the contents and and put the rolls in a box on a shelf in the closet. That went on for a long, long time.<\/p>\n
One day I bought a laptop with it.<\/p>\n
Well, it wasn’t actually a one-for-one exchange. It’s even better than that. I ordered the laptop, paid with a credit card. And when the bill came, I deposited the rolls into my bank.<\/p>\n
I took ’em to the bank in a smallish cardboard box that weighed a good hundred and fifty pounds.<\/p>\n
When I entered the bank I knew it was going to get a little weird. I warned the receptionist that I needed to deposit a large amount of coin. Then I warned the guard that I’d be back in a minute with a small, heavy cardboard box – and a hand-truck. They summoned a person with a cart and a shitload of those little aluminum roll-counting trays. When I returned we set to work.<\/p>\n
I deposited something exceeding two grand.<\/p>\n
Every computer in the house gets assigned a name – for life – when it gets access to my network. The new laptops name?<\/p>\n
Change<\/em><\/p>\n Still have the thing, too. It’s resting in the closet, pretty much unused. Not too far from some rolled coin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I used to collect my pocket change at the end of the day and dump it into a jar. When the jar filled I’d roll the contents and and put the rolls in a box on a shelf in the closet. That went on for a long, long time. One day I bought a laptop … Continue reading Pocket Change<\/span>