Y’know, of all the crap that happened due to the millennium (think Y2K scares, people thinking it’s gonna be the end of the world, training yourself to write “20″ instead of “19″ on the date, etc.) there’s one little thing that keeps coming back to bite me in the ass.
Apparently, at that time the Canadian government thought it would be fun to advertise it’s existence by introducing millennium quarters to “ring in the new year.” Sure, they were fun and festive, and at the time everyone enjoyed collecting them…
But nowadays they’re just a minor annoyance because they’re no good for anything. Seriously, you can’t use them for phone calls, you can’t use them for pop machines… I guess they have a different weight or shape than neccessary for quarters, and that’s why no machines will accept them.
A nice gesture, but please, the next time the government wants to remind people it’s alive can’t they just build another statue or something?
Note: Halffull would like to commemorate our first post by someone I don’t know! Hear, Hear!
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This entry was posted by missmagoo on Monday, August 9th, 2004, at 2:53 pm, and was filed in General.
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