If only to amuse myself, I took some $1 coins to Dollar Tree today to use in purchasing large envelopes.
I anticipated an interesting experience and I wasn’t disappointed.
Dollar Tree has, of course, kept the name, but relented to inflation in that not a lot of items in the store still are $1. My package of four large envelopes was among the victims of inflation, coming in at $1.25, plus tax.
When the cashier gave me my total, I handed him two $1 coins, one a Susan B. Anthony relic and the other a more recent Sacagawea example. I had accumulated some of these $1 coins and was eager to rid myself of them.
Anticipating confusion on the part of the cashier, I said something along the lines of “Here are two of the hated $1 coins.”
“These coins are dollars?” he asked with notable surprise.
He carefully manipulated them in his fingers, looking for evidence that I’d doctored some quarters or the like, the better to scam them.
I pointed out that if he looked closely, each has stamped on it that they are $1 coins.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. Why suspect that anyone would go to all that effort to try to chisel a business out of a buck and change by faking coinage?
Exactly.
But such common sense didn’t factor into his calculus. Also, apparently absent, was any previous experience with dollar coins of any kind, which speaks to the colossal failure this government experiment in manipulation of the public was/is.
There was an uncomfortable pause, a shake of the cashier’s head, and finally he seemed to be willing to accept that these were, indeed, legal $1 coins and should be accepted as such for payment.
Maybe it was an accident, maybe an intentional act, but he dropped one of the coins. I waited patiently while he fished for it among the rack of plastic bags.
Eventually he found it, rang up the sale, and I left the store with my purchases and one overriding thought.
This guy likely votes, which helps explain why Clueless Joe Biden is our president. That and some creative vote counting, but you already knew that.
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