Workshop: Faking It: Pretending You're A US Citizen When You're An Ocean Away

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Hi! We're legoline and benitle and we're your hosts for this month's workshop:

Faking It: Pretending You're A US Citizen When You're An Ocean Away (language barriers and a lot more)Even though Supernatural is a show based on two US American brothers, it is admired and loved by people from all over the world. From Day 01, fandom has been a global community, with

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[herongale]

My observation is that bigger cities or more expensive neighborhoods will have the "quarters only" convention, but if you're in a small town or a place which can't afford to update their meters, then it is more likely that you'll find meters that accept nickles and dimes.

Basically, the question is how tony/upscale do you want your place to be? The most upscale places have meters that accept credit card, and furthermore which are centrally located... one meter will serve a lot of spots, and so you either have to tell the meter which spot you are in (say, #32) or it gives you a receipt which you have to walk back and place in the car at the front windshield on the driver's side.

Less upscale but still up-to-date will have quarters-only meters. Often with digital readouts. The rationale behind the quarters-only is that the cities can get more money that way.

It is only in poor or out-of-date places where you will see meters that accept nickles and dimes. I haven't seen a meter that accept pennies in at least 20 years, so those have mostly been phased out. A REALLY out-of-the way place might have meters that accept pennies, though.