Coins
Remember the time when coins were such a hard thing to find? No shopkeeper seemed to have coins, and everyone resorted to shelling out those toffees for 50p or 1 Re. (I bet the smart ones still do)
I’ve been facing the opposite problem for the last few months. I don’t carry coins in with me, because they damage my absurdly expensive wallet.
Every evening, I empty my pockets of all the coins I collect during the day, by virtue of buying things priced at sums that are not multiples of tens. I put them in my cupboard.
In the mornings, I never take coins with me. Reason already specified. Putting them and carrying them in pockets is also troublesome.
I now have more than a thousand rupees - all in coins. Dunno what to do with them. I think I’ll surprise the pizza delivery guy someday <evil grin>
Its hard to believe that these coins were not so long ago something hard to find - because the value of the metal in the coin was more than the coin’s value! Thus metal merchants actually melted the heavy one rupee and two rupee coins and extracted metal! That is the reason the new coins we see are so light and also the answer to where all the old coins suddenly disappeared :) Amazing, huh?
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Man! You stole my words!!!!
You can replace yourself with me everywhere in this episode. Right from emptying the pockets in the evening to piling coins in the cupboard to not bringing them back the next day. Ditto!
But I have worked out a solution. A profitable one at that! I have struck a deal with my mom! I collect these coins and carry them back home whenever I visit. The exchange rate is pretty attractive - Round-off everything to next hundred :P
Now that I don’t get a pocket money anymore, this isn’t too bad :)
Haha, Manas… nice one this… particularly the last one, coins having metal…
The guy in Pamara still does what you tell, I guess….
Hehe… same here… If you get across any solution, plz let me know as well:)
Hey dude ! dont lock all the change with you :P Surprise the Pizza guy soon :P
I experienced both the situations u have pointed out here.
When i was in coll, me and my roommate together had some 3 Kg+ coins ( we even weighed them :P )
Then found a sol to get rid of them. We used to visit the “night canteen” every day and spend those coins there.
Now after coming to hyd before i bought bike, i used to travel by share autos and those guys never had change :(