Okay, I got two bills in change at the grocery store today. They were the same denomination, and looked similar, but not identical.
I looked at them both and said "hey, what's the deal here? These don't look the same."
The cashier patiently explained to me that I was holding the new new 20 and the old new 20. And she said it as to say "you're the third geezer this week to ask about this."
Ugh.
And then I just built up this powerful resentment against the new new 20. Not that I was attached to the old new 20, but I caught myself just as I was about to say (in my grandmother's voice no less) (at least that's how it sounded in my head) "I don't know why they have to go changing things all the time. It was fine before. We had the same money for my whole life, then they change it then they change it again the next week. Why can't they just leave well enough alone?"
As I stopped myself from saying this, I felt an internal rusty cog give way with a desperate creaking noise, and new ways of thought forced themselves over the walls of the crumbling log jam of my mental river. Well, granted it was only a trickle, but it sure felt good. The cool refresshing non-rusty waters.
I was so elated, I quickly ran home, read the instruction manual of my VCR, and programmed the stupid clock! Ah bliss.
I miss that little blinking light though.
And now what? I think I'll try an unfamiliar cuisine or maybe I'll go see a hip-hop movie.
Whoo hoo!!!
I feel giddy, oh so giddy!!! <dances around the house>
Ouch! Um...I think my mind just broke a hip.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
WHAT?!
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I'm sorry, Bob, but I laughed my head off when I saw the title of your thread.
If you're a geezer, what am I? Better go get out my cane. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Actually, I think the real sign of your growing fossilization is that you haven't seen one of the new 20s until now! Where have you been?!
I've been getting them for long enough that I have finally passed the "these are NOT real money! they just look WRONG!" stage, and have moved on to the "yeah, sure, just give me my change" stage.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
They look like twenties somebody dropped in a puddle of Kool-Aid.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Just so you don't get freaked out at a vending machine, I'll give you advance notice: Coca-Cola comes in plastic bottles now, and you can get it without any sugar in it. It's called "Diet Coke."
What a great time to be alive!
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Bob, congratulations!! You are getting young! Perhaps you will start to age Merlin style.
Math Question:
How many years until you and Dana are the same age?
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
quote:Just so you don't get freaked out at a vending machine, I'll give you advance notice: Coca-Cola comes in plastic bottles now, and you can get it without any sugar in it. It's called "Diet Coke."
Dag, the last vending machine I bought a diet coke from had it in cans.
(Just to be clear, that was this past Wednesday. )
[ June 13, 2004, 01:03 PM: Message edited by: Ela ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Well, I didn't mean exclusively...
After all, if they had replaced all the existing 20 dollar bills, Bob still wouldn't know there was a new design.
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Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
quote: I'll give you advance notice: Coca-Cola comes in plastic bottles now, and you can get it without any sugar in it. It's called "Diet Coke."
Hopefully not to kill the surprise, but there are now Pepsi Edge and Coca Cola C2. They both have half the sugar of the regular varieties and are sweetened with sugar and Splenda, and Coke also uses Nutrasweet as well. I have tried both, and they are somewhere between diet and regular pop in taste...
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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I was afraid to mention that. Two choices seem like enough for him.
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
Mmmm, I don't drink soda much, but I like the Coca Cola with Lime...
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I tried one of those "soda pop" things once. I didn't like the fizz. How do they get those bubbles in there anyway? And WHY!?
In my day, if you wanted fizzy water, you had the druggist make up some seltzer for you and you took it home in a seltzer bottle. It was good enough for us!
And what's with this ice maker contraption? I kept looking inside to see the little man in there. And where does he keep his miniature horse & wagon?
Come to think of it, how am I even posting this message? I don't even have an inkwell or quill in hand. This is just weird!
I still say the new 20 is here just to get us used to colors and swirly stuff on our money so that when the One-World government takes over, we won't notice so much that we're using Euros.
Feh!@
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"colors and swirly stuff on our money"
Well, duh. What do you think happened to all the hippies? Do you think they are at music festivals? Maybe some are, but a very small portion. Most hippies are making oodles of money on Wall Street. There has ALWAYS been a plot for the hippies to take over and turn the money tie-dye. Everyone knows that.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
How colourful is this "new" (and how new?) twenty? Is it not green? *hopeful*
I like money to be different colours. It bothers me when I go the states that I can't ever find money quickly because I have to go to all the trouble of taking all the bills out and rifling through loads of green pieces of paper to find the right one...
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
. . . or you could simply look at the little number in the corner. Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
Don't worry, I was kerfluffled when they changed the twenty again, too. It just seemed egregious. They had JUST changed it!
*mutter*
Of course, I work with money all day long, so I knew the 'change' was coming (harhar). I even had to read a little promo about it so I would know it was not a counterfeit bill.
Of course, there were also all of those annoying commercials about the new twenty dollar bill. Don't you ever watch television? (It's the black box in the corner--get someone to hook it up for you, I can't begin to explain the intricacies of coaxial cable)
Pfeh. Funny colored money. Demmed European if you ask, me! Next thing you know I'll be spelling color with a 'u' somewhere in there, and center all cattywampus.
Posted by Mabus (Member # 6320) on :
Everybody pre-empted me! I kind of like my money green, myself...it makes it easy to tell it's not a bill or a receipt that I've somehow stuck in my wallet.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Wait, they changed it again???
My God, having no money strikes again, I had no idea. I bet the cashier also had a ton of teenagers/college students wondering what was up with this monopoly money crap...
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: . . or you could simply look at the little number in the corner.
You expect me to read? Colour recognition is far quicker... besides, I'm used to colourful money.
No, but seriously, what does this new twenty look like?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
It looks like it was redrawn by someone with less talent and then dipped into bleach.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
I hate to upset your world any more, Bob, but get ready for the possibility of more change. There are people talking now about putting Reagan's picture on one of the bills - maybe the twenty.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
It looks unAmerican and like it's worth some small percentage of what real money is worth.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
lma, I heard it was the $10 bill.
And/or the dime, although the proposal on the dime is to have half of them Reagan and the other half as is (FDR).
I've also heard proposals of sticking Reagan's likeness up on Mt. Rushmore.
Fortunately, I would not live long enough to see that job completed.
The change in our money, I would have to see. And I would prefer not to. I think Mr. Reagan was a huckster and that he not only knew about Iran/Contra, but he approved it.
And I also think he destroyed the education system in California when he was governor.
And the parallels between he and Bush II are closest when you look at their failed education policies as governor and then later as president.
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Yeah, it's not something I want to see either. And, haven't they been floating that Rushmore idea ever since he left office?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
It's worse than you think! In attempting to find a picture of this apparantly hideous bill, I found...
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