Look after the pennies

Grumpy and I were planning to go into Leicester today when he had a brainwave. He had a lot of coins hanging around the place, mainly 1pence and 2 pence coins that he had been saving up in two pringle tubes ( and no I don't know why pringle tubes). Usually he would have to count them out and put them in bags before he could put them into the bank.

However he knew that the place we were going to had a coin counting machine. You just put the coins in, it counts it for you, you get a receipt which you can either redeem or use off your shopping. The Machine takes ten percent of the total coinage mind you, but still all in all a much quicker system then having to count coins into little bags right?

Ummm usually.

But it turned out Grumpy had rather a lot of coins.

A heck of a lot.

In fact he had over 1000 2 pence coins alone!

So it took a little time to put them all in the machine.

Still at least we got the recipt from the machine eventually which he was able to use as money off the clothes he had bought. Which cheered him up a bit as he didn't seem too happy that he had never spent so much on clothes in one go before.

Mind you he wasn't alone in that as I spent a fair bit as well, for some bits such as a new coat, new trousers, some shirts and other bits and bobs.

We noticed on the way out that there was a very frustrated woman standing in front of the coin machine whilst a staff member had the front open obivously trying to fix it. Grumpy asked somewhat worried if we had broken it. My response was to tell him to keep walking!

anyway,

Later folks.