Canadian money
I like Canadian money, even more than other foreign money. I think because it's from Canada I like it so much. My fascination with foreign money in general is because that money is from somewhere else, and is out of place here in America. But Canadian money I especially love, because it's a lot like American money. The coins at least can easily be confused for American (though this applies to Barbadosian money as well... money from Barbados looks a lot like Canadian money. The coins, anyway.) coins, and end up in the cash register. I always work hard to find some way to free Canadian coins from the register and replace them with American coins. Usually it's just pennies I find, so I take them out when people don't want their change if the change is pennies. And now, ever since the company has stopped paying the sales taxes for people, whenever someone doesn't want their change, it's usually at least 6 cents, sometimes as much as 60 cents! Which makes getting Canadian quarters, dimes, and nickles out of the register a lot easier now!
I've been collecting the larger coins. But there are so many Canadian pennies running about that I've started a "return to Canada" program for them. I'm saving all the Canadian pennies in a cup and when I have enough to get a dollar coin for them, I will send them to Brax or one of my other Canadian friends and have zir trade me. To return those poor lost pennies to Canada.
Plus, as representatives of their country, Canadian coins represent a more liberal world. Not perfect, but more liberal than America.
Here is the difference between America and Canada, in a story...
There once were two sisters in a large family. Their names were America and Canada. Their parents were Britain and UK (work with me, people!) Like all families, when America and Canada were just small children, they adored their parents, even if sometimes despite their treatment. But as they grew older, America grew rebellious as teens are wont to do. Not wanting to accept that America was no longer a child, Britain and UK tried very hard to keep their rebellious daughter in line. But the more they punished her, the more she rebelled. Finally, one day they had a big fight. America ran away from home with her boyfriend Liberty.
Canada just watched all this play out, not amused yet envious, but not wanting to have a fight with her parents. She liked the security of living at home, so she kept quiet. She was the *good* daughter. And because of this, as her parents grew old and weak and tired, she got more and more freedom until one day she was old enough to leave her parents' house completely. She had a steady, good paying job and a loving lesbian partner, Freedom. Her own rebellion being confined to her private heart, she became the liberal "hippy" daughter. No children of her own, but if she had any they would be raised and nurtured in a loving and caring environment.
And her sister, America? Ended up in a trailer park working at McDonalds for barely minimum wage, trying to support three kids, and married to Liberty who, incidentally, is an angry drunk who beats her frequently. There's no telling at this point when she will become fed up and kick the bastard out or kill him and try to pick up the pieces of her broken life.
I've been collecting the larger coins. But there are so many Canadian pennies running about that I've started a "return to Canada" program for them. I'm saving all the Canadian pennies in a cup and when I have enough to get a dollar coin for them, I will send them to Brax or one of my other Canadian friends and have zir trade me. To return those poor lost pennies to Canada.
Plus, as representatives of their country, Canadian coins represent a more liberal world. Not perfect, but more liberal than America.
Here is the difference between America and Canada, in a story...
There once were two sisters in a large family. Their names were America and Canada. Their parents were Britain and UK (work with me, people!) Like all families, when America and Canada were just small children, they adored their parents, even if sometimes despite their treatment. But as they grew older, America grew rebellious as teens are wont to do. Not wanting to accept that America was no longer a child, Britain and UK tried very hard to keep their rebellious daughter in line. But the more they punished her, the more she rebelled. Finally, one day they had a big fight. America ran away from home with her boyfriend Liberty.
Canada just watched all this play out, not amused yet envious, but not wanting to have a fight with her parents. She liked the security of living at home, so she kept quiet. She was the *good* daughter. And because of this, as her parents grew old and weak and tired, she got more and more freedom until one day she was old enough to leave her parents' house completely. She had a steady, good paying job and a loving lesbian partner, Freedom. Her own rebellion being confined to her private heart, she became the liberal "hippy" daughter. No children of her own, but if she had any they would be raised and nurtured in a loving and caring environment.
And her sister, America? Ended up in a trailer park working at McDonalds for barely minimum wage, trying to support three kids, and married to Liberty who, incidentally, is an angry drunk who beats her frequently. There's no telling at this point when she will become fed up and kick the bastard out or kill him and try to pick up the pieces of her broken life.