The woman at my local bodega won’t take state quarters
How weird is this? I was waiting in line to pay at my local deli, which is owned by a really nice Korean couple, and this construction guy in front of me suddenly asks me to explain to the deli woman that state quarters are real.
It took me a moment to realize he was serious. He was showing me a perfectly legitimate quarter from some state or other, and I nodded my agreement that it was real.
The deli woman chuckled good-naturedly, as if she knew the construction guy and I were playing a joke on her, and waved him away again. “No, no, no good here. Use them in the meter,” she said, pointing out the window, “not here.”
“But they’re real!” he insisted in vain, flustered and confused. He finally found some non-state quarters, paid his bill, and went on his way.
But I was left with a lot of questions. How long have state quarters been circulating, 8 years? How could the deli woman not have ever encountered them up until this point? It’s impossible, she must have seen them. So in that case, does she think that all of these different people are independently creating perfect forgeries, all with the same theme?
I just don’t understand!!!
Yeah, this situation seems to be impossible. Has she really been turning away thousands of dollars in real, live money over the years? And what about the rolls she receives from the bank? The bank, for God’s sake!
But on another note, all the new money looks hilariously fake if you ask me. Perhaps we’re all pawns in some child’s board game, and that lady is trying to warn us all. That, or she’s nuts.