...donating to the Humane Society that is. I often wonder why we have coins in the US. In Europe, coins are highly useful for buying public transportation tickets. In America we... well, we don't really use public transportation all that much. And attempting to count out exact change for that new gadget or whats-it that cost exactly $12.44 is just far too great a pain. So instead I tend to accumulate a lot of relatively useless change.
Useless no longer, I say! Have you ever noticed all those little donation boxes on the counters of every business imaginable? Raising money for this, that, and the other cause. I have. And today I took all of my change and donated it to the local Humane Society's box on the counter of the local vet clinic. All $3.27 in lots of pennies, a couple nickels, a handful of dimes, and 1 1/2 dollars worth of quarters.
So, the receptionists might have laughed at me a bit as I slid all of the coins into the box, tiny handful by tiny handful because the opening in the top was too slim to fit more than about five coins at a time. And yeah, it took forever and put me on the spot for quite a while. Oh well, it looked cool afterwards, with the pile of change weighing down the dollar bills others had deemed worthy of donation before me.
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