Sorta funny?

$10 + $10 + $15 = $25

I'll never understand this new math.

In 10 years you wont find a cashier who knows what a quarter, dime, nickel, or penny is. They wont exist anymore as all transactions will be swiped. You'll find your old change in an antique store next to the Justin Bieber CD's.

Okay you got me, guess I need a refresher course....

I think fast food places have made it much easier for cashiers with the register telling how much the cashier is to give back. Many of them also have coin dispensers that release the exact amount of coin change.

Those coin dispenser things are pretty rare in NJ. Other than my local Walgreens, I don't know any other places that use them.

10 years is too soon to do away with cash.

I hate getting change, especially if I have coin in my pocket. I will almost always try to up the amount so I only get cash back.

The only time it seems to affect a cashier is if let's say the amount is 6.14. If I give a $10 bill and a quarter, some clerks will have problems with it. The ones who have been somewhat trained will calculate the cash first and then the coin.

Excuse me, but was she wrong?

I heard recently that the value of a quarter today is a little less than the value of a penny around 1930 (or thereabouts). Which to me means that we could get by without today's pennies, nickels, and dimes, since we effectively did so in the 1930s, an era when the smallest coin of the day had the power of today's quarter.

At the very minimum, we should do what Canada has done and eliminate physical pennies, let pennies only continue in virtual transactions, and abandon the dollar bill for coins.