Welcome to England's currency system. Yes, these are all actively used coins in everyday currency exchange. Now try to imagine counting out exact change with a purse full of this absurdity. I mean really, can we make this anymore complicated? I miss good old straight forward Lincoln, Washington...you know the nice dead guys that didn't mind only having their face on one coin. So now imagine me standing at a checkout frantically pulling out coin after coin and dubiously trying to read the inscriptions on each one all whilst calculating the change that I owe, how on earth I am going to learn all of these coins by sight and how much longer the person in line behind me will continue to look at me with a polite (if not patronizing) smile before deeply sighing and silently cursing me. Saturday, April 18, 2009
Penny for your thoughts?
Welcome to England's currency system. Yes, these are all actively used coins in everyday currency exchange. Now try to imagine counting out exact change with a purse full of this absurdity. I mean really, can we make this anymore complicated? I miss good old straight forward Lincoln, Washington...you know the nice dead guys that didn't mind only having their face on one coin. So now imagine me standing at a checkout frantically pulling out coin after coin and dubiously trying to read the inscriptions on each one all whilst calculating the change that I owe, how on earth I am going to learn all of these coins by sight and how much longer the person in line behind me will continue to look at me with a polite (if not patronizing) smile before deeply sighing and silently cursing me. 
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I do not envy you there Karin!! Waaaay too complicated if you ask me. Just give me a nice plastic card and keep it easy! Do they even take debit cards in England?
Ha ha.
I'm sorry. I did the same thing in Bangladesh. But at least you can read them. Sometimes I had to ask people what certain coins were even worth period!
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