Counting Coins

Every day when I get home, I usually dump my change into the Commerce Bank bank on my desk. Then, every couple of months, it fills up, and I have to walk down the block, holding $60-$80 dollars in coins to get them counted. I hate doing it though, and usually put it off for a long time... 

One reason is that one time I went there with my dad, and he counted some of his coins before mine, the amount of money he got was less than he expected, but that was that. Then I counted my coins, and the machine got jammed. We called someone over. It turns out that over half of my dads coins had gotten stuck, but cute lil Penny didn't bother to tell us. If I hadn't counted my coins right after my dad, we could have lost $40. This leaves me pretty paranoid every time I count my coins. 

So, instead of asking someone to check the machine after I count my coins, (those things are heavy) I try to sort a precounted number of coins separately to make sure it gets it right.

All this reminds me of a time when I was younger, and something else happened: The quarter bag had filled up, and needed changing. This is relatively routine procedure (for a Jew at least, who tends to have a lot of money to count). But when the worker took off the bag to replace it, a whole bunch of quarters poured onto the floor.

Now naturally, when coins hit the floor, everyone turns around, especially in a bank. So, to remedy the situation of the quarters chillin on the bank floor, some of them mine, and some of them not, the guy just starts dumping them back into the sorting hopper, regardless of whether they were mine or not. Free money ftw!!

Wow, this was a long post. I can't believe I've been Jammin this early!

My Commerce Bank bank :)