[USMA:33031] Re: the 600 mL size beverage bottle

[Carleton MacDonald]

The machines in our office building all take them.   However, the fare machines in the subway (Washington, D.C.) don’t.    Congress could have made life a lot easier if the author of the legislation authorizing the current Golden Dollar had left out the sentence that said that the dollar bill SHALL continue to be produced.  Keeping the dollar bill costs the USA about $400,000,000 a year, but remember, as with metrication, Congress listens to the whiners.  “You changed something, why did you change it, we don’t like change, we’re going to remember this at the election, waa waa waa …”   Carleton   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:45 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:33016] Re: the 600 mL size beverage bottle   In a message dated 2005-05-31 12:13:45 Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now if we can get the vending machine people to install machines that take dollar coins... In my area I've been surprised at the number of vending machines that do accept dollar coins.  It seems that most of the newer machine do, though I don't think many people know that they do.  Just recently I saw someone give someone a dollar coin for a coke asking them if they had a paper dollar so the machine will take it.  The machine in question takes dollar coins.  It's much easier to put a dollar coin in the machine and know it will take it than wonder if your dollar note is perfect enough for the machine to accept it.