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So true
Whut??
Nickels and Dimes are for Street Meters!
Dang – don’t any of ya’ll live in cities?
You’re a college student, and you have a car?!?
‘94 Camaro, windows don’t like to let up, and the windshield wipers like to stop working on when the rain is at its heaviest. But I love him. (Yes, my car is a guy, he’s so badass.)
I knew a guy, in college, who drove beat @ss Camaros. Essentially he’d drive it till it died, pull off the VIN, go buy a new one.
Nice. I at least keep mine in good working order. The windows/wipers just arent’ a big enough issue to warrant fixing yet.
OMG. I remember when Camaros were *cool.* I’m old…
No, that’s what parents that buy us $600 parking permits are for!
That’s what I was thinking! Snap.
Where is this magical world of street meters that accept anything but quarters?!?!?!
i saw some that take pennies the other day O.O
Yep, there are some in Columbus, OH.
Ha! I was gonna say, I’m in Columbus and ours take other coins…
yeah, i would like to know where these “special” meters are….
Hai – late…. Cleveland, OH. Must be an OH thing.
In my (large metropolitan) city parking meters only take quarters.
Not in Portland, mate.
You must not live in Seattle…it’s like 2 and a half bucks for a half hour…only slightly exaggerating.
Ha! I haven’t seen a parking meter here that takes less quarters in YEARS! And then you only get 15 minutes.
Oh Philly, how I love thee.
we don’t use meters where I live. But vending machines take nickles and dimes, yay I can eat!
“Hey, Jake. Gotta be at least seven dollars worth of change here.”
Whenever I get pulled over I think: I bet these cops got SCMODS.
Fix the cigarette lighter.
I love this.
Goddamn, I need quarters.
I do too, My laundry is accumulating in my dorm room rather badly lol
Thank god I now live in a building where the laundry is done by card ^_^
You lucky bastard.
ugh, I SO need that. I’m ALWAYS scrounging for quarters (am right now actually)
I love and loathe it! They don’t keep the card refill machine actually in my building, I have to walk to clubhouse to put money on the card. I really shouldn’t complain about the walk, but I’m so used to convenience!
And we have parking meters that accept credit/debit cards now… is that happening anywhere else?
Woah, credit/debit parking meters!?! That’s crazy, but to be expected I suppose.
Or, if you’re me: “2 more of these babies and I can buy myself a SODA!”
No kidding. Speaking of which. *digs around under the bed*
Me too. But I’d be taking the dimes and nickles as well for the same reason.
Good times. Flannel shirts, coffee houses, late-night bull sessions… damn I miss college. And the late 90’s in general. *is old*
Is college really like that, then? It’s not just the rose-lensed Hollywood ideal of college? I can’t wait! *is young*
Eight more months…more or less.
Mmm, student loans!
College, if done right, is pretty awesome.
And by done right I mean get yourself a Bachelor of Fine Arts. No math classes. You can blame smelling like alcohol on turpentine. And hanging around in record stores and coffee shops is just “job training.”
Ugh, definitely no math classes if I can help it. I want to be a bio or biotech major, though, so I think a certain amount of math is unavoidable. It’s sad, but it’s the price I have to pay for the ability to make kittens glow in the dark.
I’m working on a novel, though, so hanging out in obscure coffee shops and the like is practically required.
I was genetics and had to take two semesters of calculus, never to be used again. Dumb, but you’ll be stuck with math in any BS. I do miss undergrad to a certain extent, life was easy then. Class, study, maybe sleep, test, party, repeat.
Genetics? Awesome! I’d like to have a job doing something genetically-related after college–any advice?
Calculus…not so awesome. But I’ll muddle through it somehow, I guess. I didn’t do so well in AP Calc last year, but at least it won’t be entirely new material.
I’m going meteorology and need 4 semesters of calculus -__-
Aww cheer up.
I’m doing 3rd year physics and just finished my 7th of some form of maths.
Most of which I will never use again.
you all are lucky. i’m an engineering major, 6 semesters of Calculus then all that crappy specialty engineering math. then classes entitled “Concrete”
Boo-ya! Linguistics all the way – no math.
Oh, and my laundry is free. All I have to do is buy the detergent.
Are you kidding? Calculus is the best!
Anything that can find the slope of a point (including Chuck Norris) is freakin’ sweet. Calc was my best class last year (iz a senior). All you need are two real equations that are both easily adaptable. Advanced math becomes
T R I V I A L
Please bottle some of that and send it to me…I suck royally at calculus and would love some of that enthusiasm and skill.
Hollywood makes college look fun. If you keep an eye on what frats do without getting involved, it can be funny, though. They mostly get arrested and kicked out the back door of the college and no one knows the wiser.
Sounds like high school. We had fifteen fights in one week this year. Fun fun.
Hollywood college always centers on frats and drunkenness. That’s fine for some, but for me college was slacker heaven. I drank some really good coffee with some really good friends, played a lot (I mean A LOT) of games (video and otherwise), geeked out on the fledgling internet, and occasionally went to class. I always was a good test-taker, so I was able to coast along without putting in too much effort. I look back on it now and regret absolutely nothing. I’m even glad that my directionlessness resulted in a five year tenure. I’d love to go back for five more.
Aaah…sounds perfect. That’s exactly what I want from college. My older coworkers are always waxing poetic about it, and it sounds amazing. I can’t wait til I get to go out and do it for real.
Make sure to take classes that “sound interesting” but don’t really contribute to your major. You’ll meet really cool people that way. Hell, by the time I graduated I nearly had a minor in Philosophy & Religion.
Sounds great! I want to take a philosophy class for sure. Then I’ll comb the course handbook for likely-sounding titles. A friend of mine took a class on vampires last year, for example–that sounds amazing. Maybe something with “Star Wars” in the course name.
By the time I actually get to college, I’ll already have more than a year’s worth of credits with all the dual-enrollment classes I’m taking this year. I’ll have a lot of time for fun. Damned if I’m getting stiffed my four years!
Ha! Just remember you’re paying for the privilege. I graduated in ‘99 and I’m still paying student loans!
True…I’m starting off at a community college and transferring to a state school for just that reason. And my parents started a college account for me practically the day I was born, and it has about $7,000 in it now. Just a drop in the bucket, but a start, at least.
What you do is you make straight As and then search like mad for scholarships to apply for. If you’re lucky you’ll only have to pay for the first few terms and then smooth sailing from there.
Hmmm..should’ve graduated high school in my state…they have scholarships for everyone who graduates HS in the state to the state universities (granted you have to up-front the tuition and maintain a min GPA..but is still free, they reimburse based on GPA.
I have NO student loans because I was a loser who lived at home. On one hand I feel I missed out on the whole college experience, on the other, I still haven’t found a job in my major yet, am making very little money, and have no idea how I’d be paying off that “experience” if I’d had to take out loans.
I majored in info systems and got a job coding for the gov straight out of graduating, so no pain there. Loans are manageable, and the work doesn’t exactly get outsourced, so times aren’t as hard for me as they are for many.
Elementary Education. You would think that would get me a job, after all NCLB says we want “highly qualified” teachers. Well, turns out what the principals in my area thought they meant by “highly qualified” was actually “who has the better connections” and with me being an Army brat I have no personal connections to any of the schools. I’ve been slogging away as an aide and a substitute and finally this year I am doing a long term subbing position which I hope will lead to something permanant next year. *sigh* Now I’ve just depressed myself…
Keep trying, Jane. Now that we have a decent president, perhaps education will get the attention it deserves. Where are you, geographically? I know the DC schools desperately need good teachers.
Jane, not sure where you are, but keep your head up! I don’t know if it is just this place or what, but we hire new teachers every friggin year. I think part of it is because we are near a military base and so we always have some people leaving. Keep in mind though that this base contributes at least 30% of the total population. DON’T GIVE UP!
Ahh, the joys of a European education
No loans, as long as you finish within 10 years. And still only 1500 a year if you’re that big of a slacker.
Ditto, I ended up with BFA in illustration and almost minor in religion because I had just taken enough classes.
?!?! Good gravy, did you go to Grunewald Guild??
No, Syracuse University. But I went to catholic school for 7 years. My mom’s a a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher. I used to work the youth group. Bsaically I only know one guy I’m afraid to go head to head against in Bible Trivial Pursuit and that’s because he speaks ancient hebrew.
Yay! We should play sometime!!
I’ve totally forgotten the Hebrew I had to learn for ordination but I know where to find resources!!
I find Proverbs sorta boring; what about you?
god… I have ‘minors’ in psych and criminal justice (for METEOROLOGY!). But I dont regret any of it
Hey, that would come in handy if bin Laden ever figures out how to change the weather.
Oh, coasting. How I miss it. I’m a Music Major, so all my classes WERE really easy, until I’d taken every music course they offered and now I’m in English (actual work), Philosophy (assigned reading), and Film (which is still coasting, but with exams).
But I AM FREE in two semesters! (Current semester included)
Oh no, you won’t be free. You’ll be in the Real World, from which there is no escape!
Well there is one escape route, but I don’t recommend anyone try to take it.
Why oh why didnt I take the BLUE pill?
Viagra?
The idea of taking viagra scares me. The notion that I no longer control
the status of the one part of my body that easily gotten me into the most
trouble in all of my life… is just creepy. Its already been presumed
that its a second brain.. I dont need it performing on its own to support
that thought!
Coffee houses, endless midnight-to-dawn arguments over technique, hauling @ss all over town on foot, Ren faires… the early ’80’s was fabulous. *is even older den u*
Amen to that! Oh, I miss those days…
i found a dollar yesterday and i felt so rich! i hate being poor, haha
If you’re smart enough to get into college, hopefully you’re smart enough to know that 2 dimes and 5 pennies make a quarter.
Anyone who truly thinks that way, college student or not, have been failed by their respective education systems.
Any idiotic commentator like you who doesn’t realize that laundry machines only take quarters fails at life.
Because all laundry machines only take quarters. Nice try champ.
Nevermind that my comment was aimed at people who don’t seem to appreciate the value of their coins and not necessarily at the phrase “laundry money”.
Get over yourself, thanks.
Getting over yourself: priceless. Or in your case whatever the therapy is costing.
Where the heck do you live where laundry machines take anything BUT quarters?
thats what I want to know…
The anger in your post is so out of proportion to reality. Calm down and try to remember that you came here for the lols.
I dunno, sometimes it feels like… they dont come here for them.
It’s possible they’re here for the lulz, in which case they’re just trying to make us rage. The best answer is silence.
As a rule, most people just over look the damn things anyone. Go for the big ones! Oh, and stop being an ass.
anyway*
*shrug*
Perhaps you are so well off you can ignore the smaller denominations in your purse. Good for you.
I just hate people not appreciating the value of money. That’s all.
Purse? Besides, I’m far from well off – that’s why I’m in college. And directly because I’m in college, that’s why I’m not well off. It’s just general thing for early-years college kids to over look them because they are useless by themselves. I’m not trying to sound like some kind of well-to-do snob, but it’s an honest observation. I will concede, though, that I have friends that do think of pennies and dimes as useful and honestly need every last one they can find for gas money. It just depends.
Remember, while unusable for laundry, the little coins are perfectly useful for acquiring ramen noodles and mountain dew!
Amen.
I’m definitely going to be living off of those while in college. And Dunkin’ Donuts; I’m addicted to them.
mmm DD’s!
Mmmmm, ramen…
It was meant as a joke, it’s not supposed to be taken that seriously.
I am personally OVERJOYED to see an actually funny lol that isn’t about the past election. GLORY.
Wait, there was an election? Damn! I should have voted.
Or, you can go to an awesome college like mine where laundry is free!
(And where your basketball team gets slaughtered by UNC in the first round of NCAAs last year)
meeheehee! UNC rocks baby (chapel hill–er, side, is it?) Yeah that’s where I go. :]
Or, you could not live in a dorm and use the 20-year-old washing machine that was there as long as any of your house-mates remembers.
We dont talk about the thing that washes our clothes. It just is… it always has been, and always will be… just…. there……
We actually just got new machines in the dorms the year before is started at my college which is conveniently also the year that they instituted the free laundry policy.
They REALLY need a “random” LOL section.
One that serves Cake!!!
or death!
But there will only be three pieces of cake…
“We only had three bits and we didn’t expect such a rush!”
I spent $7.50 doing laundry yesterday because the machines here suck. But they’re also done by card thank God, or else I’d be begging for quarters on the street. Because of my recent laundry escapade, I truly appreciate this LOL. Also, you can go to an awesome college like mine where the basketball team slaughters everyone they set their sights on. Rock Chalk!
I seem to recall that the sex, booze, sex, pot, sex, caffeine, sex, studying, and sex lobes of the brain were quite dominant over the laundry quarters lobe, but then, memory is always subjective and selective, isn’t it?
Psh, come on, no one under thirty cares about anything below quarters–except when they wanna dump it on your register at the grocery store. They will sit there for 15 minutes to count out $5 worth of change just so they can get rid of it. :[
And sometimes they try to pay with foreign money! Come on people, dump it in a jar like everyone else and go to Coinstar in four years!
Common courtesy, anyone?
Actually, when I worked retail I loved it when people paid with a bunch of loose change. That meant I didn’t have to get rolled coins from the bank, for which they charged the store.
Im 29 and I use all my loose change (I just PREFER quarters)
Pennies are definitely harder to bounce into the shot glass
Me to, except I put it in a huge jar which I take to the bank when full. Who carries metal/paper money around anyway?
CoinStar’s a ripoff. Find a bank that has a machine like CoinStar but doesn’t charge bank customers to use it, and then get an account there.
My credit union’s got one. It’s pretty sweet. No more rolling coins. w00t.
*sigh* Yet another display of the clear bias of the people who run this site. I mean really, you can clearly see the Democratic presidents’ portraits on their coins, but of the seven pennies in the picture, only one of them shows the picture of Lincoln, a Republican, and it’s blurred.
*snicker*
Thanks…now I gotta wipe the Pepsi off my monitor! *snort*
Is it bad that I saw “wipe the Pelosi off my screen” at first glance?
PK overdose?
I dunno, I guess I was hoping someone gave her the good rodgering she needs
to get in line.. and perhaps found the stick that was stuck somewhere and pulled it out…… and no, I dont approve of Pelosi so far, in case you cant tell
Ew, ew ew ew… *shudder* Images damaging cortex, synapsis response failing… Must… Talk like… This… Gah…. *dies and bleeds out*
eff the golf clap…… *standing ovation*
I think we decided on finger snaps, and this well qualifies. *finger snaps*
If the Gipperbots ever have their way, about half the dimes will have his profile on them… don’t worry.
Good catch.
Has anybody got a dime?
…
Somebody’s gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes!
blazing saddles FTW!
(shit like this is why i LOVE this forum)
We dont need no steenkin dimes!!!
I was waiting for the perfect picture to use Biden/Obama for a “Hey boys, lookie
what I got here!” ‘Hey where da white women at?!’ lol
>.>
dimes and pennies are NPC and PC markers in DND.
I still need laundry quarters. My apartment has crappy machines, but it’s too much of a pain to drive the laundry somewhere else. I give the cashiers the $.06 on a 5.31 bill so as to maximize my quarter intake.
I betcha you get strange looks sometimes from the ones that dont understand math when you’re at the register.
Only if they haven’t been a cashier very long. Customers are weird, it’s best just to plug in what they gave you and let the machine figure it out. That way when they DO do something stupid you can enjoy the look on their faces when you hand them their dollar back and say, “I guess we didn’t need that.” I sometimes feel like Crowley in Good Omens, spreading low grade evil to lots of people.
Sometimes I do have to tell them the correct change, like if they put in 6.00 instead of 6.06 I wish they’d teach how to count back change in school. *sigh* I learned at a young age running a till with no register at a family business.
I learned how to count back change quick at the grocery store I worked at. Especially after the time the power went out for 24 hours and we had to log everything in manually. *shudder* And I’m still damn fast on a 10 key from having to type in so many checks
I find it amusing that at work my co-workers who arent in the office, oogle
how I type without looking at the keyboard, and fill in entire order numbers and comments without looking at what Im typing. It amazing how averaging 135 words
a minute constitutes as damn near magic to the technologically handicapped.
I can’t do 135 wpm, but I can get around 90-100 depending on what I’m typing. And you’re right, it’s met with looks of shock and awe as I do it without looking. My poor boss (who has a good excuse, his fingers are fat) can only type with two fingers. He gets about 30 wpm, and it drives me nuts! I usually push him out of the way and finish what he’s typing for him.
I did an admin job in the Army and when I was in training for it, one of the graduation requirements was typing 20wpm. I did like three times that anyway because I’d taken typing in high school. There was this one guy who could not learn to save his life–he’d always hunt-and-pecked. But when H&Ping he could do 20wpm. Unfortunately the requirement was for touch-typing. He barely made it.
Eh, I average 42wpm when I am dickering around at work. When I am chatting, I ramp up to about 90 or more cuz I am just typing instead of trying to filter stupid into words while trying to type notes for the corporation’s requirements.
Stop waving your WPM around!! I’m computer savvy but I don’t measure up to that impressive score…
Ive always been quick with my fingers….
hehehe…. Paging Dr. N. Uendo!
I blame my extremity dexterity on those looong looong nights…. of playing Megaman 3
First date, one hand, through her jeans, in her truck. I have remembered the anniversary of our first date for nine years now. Good times.
Whattaya mean, college students? I’m in my 30s and I still look at quarters as laundry/car wash money. When I was a college student, I looked at quarters as video game money, and then whatever was left went to laundry….
minerva146<—-30’s too.
Yup. I’m 34. There’s a laundry room in my apartment building, you have to have a key to get in, and they still charge.
The laundry machines at my school don’t take quarters. Only $5, $10 and $20 bills
My grandparents would collect quarters for my sis (she’s 7 years older than me, they had died by the time I got to college). When she moved into a townhouse with three other girls and they had a washer and dryer, my grandparents continued to collect quarters for her.
When I went to college, I would just got to my bank and take out $20 in quarters – in a roll please. Of course, that only worked when I actually had that money in my account…. Sigh, 30 and still wish I had that kind of money in my account.
I understand as I’m in the same boat.
Dimes have a higher currency density (whether defined as value/mass or value/volume) than quarters.
Dimes are good for buying pizza. Except for the pizza guy wants to murder you. But I have in fact used dimes to buy pizza…. and beer. =)
SO TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and the loonies
I’m old.
sigh
still save pennies
college was in the ’70’s.
As a college student who lives at home (my college doesn’t have dorms)
This is inaccurate. Quarters are for the vending machines!
HAR!!
Being a college student bites.
This is extremely inaccurate. The mind of a college student is “MONEY!!! Lemme have it all! Please, I’m so poor…”
No college student in their right mind would pass over any money. We’ll roll it and take it to the bank if we have to, but money is money!
I know from personal experience =(
That’s just because you go to North Texas. The most overly priced/overly hyped/overly everything school in Texas. My advice: change schools, especially if you’re a music major.
I’m glad that my college has washers that don’t require cards or change. It’s completely covered in our room/board fees. The only problem with that is that they’re almost constantly full of the theater guy’s cloths, and we only have one washer and one dryer for 36 guys to use.
And a small portion of the decline of university intellect is partially due to the fact that morons like Bill Ayers are on the school boards. (so many other things contribute, of course)
The people that decided to put that unrepentant Communist terrorist on the university board should be fired. Then put into a mental institution.
Yeah, on 9/11 … ON 9 FREAKING 11, he was quoted, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
Asked whether he would advocate bombing again, he answered: “I don’t want to discount the possibility.” Or as he writes in his memoir: “I can’t imagine entirely dismissing the possibility.”
Bill Ayers: 1995 Campaign FUNDRAISER for Barack Obama.
They go way back.
so true.
I’m happy I have free laundry in my dorm!