Everyone keeps change in their car. It's the smart thing to do. You never know when you'll have to unreasonably pay to park your car on the side of the street. Parking meters are an annoying idea/invention (but we'll save that for another post), and it's slightly annoying that they don't accept pennies.Sure, pennies are already kind of useless...but they should be able to buy you at least one minute. How many times could you have used those three or four extra minutes in the meter? The coin collection spot in the car is always comprised of mostly pennies. You have to dig through a sea of copper before you can find any useful silver. You'd probably be able to pay for at least 2 hours worth of parking if each penny bought you one minute. Of course, you can't use those pennies. Instead, the pennies will just pile up, uselessly, taking up space in your change collection, dirtying your fingers every time you need to dig through them to find something to feed the meter.
Come on Mr. Meter. You'll eat my nickels and dimes and quarters and feel full, but you'll eat my pennies and not feel anything at all?It's just slightly annoying.
No comments:
Post a Comment