Being Lib ...or something like it

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Dimes and Nickels

I wantched this movie underworld a while ago, its a third movie in a trilogy and it had a lot of vampires and werewolves where a lot of them were getting killed in a slaughter fest that Im sure made it a hell lot better than twilight.

This isn't about the movie though, when I was buying movie tickets, the pricetag for a ticket is at 90 bucks and a half cents which is very troublesome paying because you always have to have loose coins to pay for the goddam extra penny than just pay them an outright 90 bucks. The clerk said its for charity that sometimes I wouldn't mind paying because I feel like saving the world, in a way.

But anyway the idea here is the value of the half penny itself that I had in my pockets on the way out of the theater. In this country we only have 6 coins in circulation, the first three coins are the smaller values of our currency in denominations of ones, fives and tens, each complete with a dead hero immortalized on its underside, which you might find useful in buying a stick of cigarette or for paying for public transport to get you around town. The lesser three coins are made up of the smaller denominations of the penny which are the quarter, the dime and the nickel, and unlike the other three you'll never find any dead person's mug on either side or find these coins of any use by themsleves, particularly the dime and the nickel because you can't buy anything with them, you could still save a couple of quarters and get yourself a spearmint before anybody notices you breathe of alcohol at work.

The dime and the nickel are about the same size and they have this sort of light metallic red shade, you could guess its a bronze alloy with plastic or something useless to make up for its also useless value, the nickel though has a hole in the middle because they both look all the same and nobody bothers to check the value on these coins if not for the hole, much less pick them up on the streets, you could see a piece or two on the sidewalks say about every 20 meters and nobody picks them up, they'd figure out they're wasting their time even before they could make a penny out of it. Its not even worth buying a piggybank, once you've filled it with dimes and nickels and break the porcelain, everything inside would just be enough to buy you a new goddam piggybank and start collecting all over again.

Anyway, I could still use the 5 dimes in my pocket to pay for the 50 cent in the ticket pricetag the next time I would watch a movie, the trouble with these coins is that they're so easy to lose, and if I just lose one of those 5 dimes, I can't use them to pay for the charity part of the movie ticket, but then I can just walk around a couple of meters and maybe I could just spot one on the floor.

2 Comments:

Blogger keloyd said...

nung isang araw, sinuklian ako ng cashier sa grocery, imbes na 50 centavoz, eh 10 pcs ng 5 centavos... hindi ko alam kung ibabalik ko ba yun o ibabato sa kanya.. hehe

pero pera parin yujn, anu kaya hingi tayo ng 5 centavos sa bawat pinoy, .05 x 8 million

1:08 PM

 
Blogger Cee said...

lib.. updated my link

http://dorkypandora.blogspot.com

due to

pranksters and stalkers..

take care!

4:15 PM

 

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