Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 08, 2009

Throw it in the back of a dresser drawer and forget about it. If you drive to Canada, you may come back with Canadian pennies, although those are easier to get rid of.

You must live in the land of very aware cashiers

Put it in one of those “need a penny” cups or the tip jar. It’s easy to get rid of unwanted coinage there.

Very funny. I love this one. It has a tasty ubiquitous-but-obscure quality.

Is that right, eh! Try using it in a parking meter, if you can find one that still takes dimes.

Send it to me, I can always use it to pay sales tax on a cup of coffee.

and one question before I go…how is it possible for Frog Applause to involve more self-indulgence?

it’s tring to tell you that you should GO AWAY nobody likes your comments

I have some East German Deautschmarks that are doing me the same way! And they’re not even a country anymore! No way to get rid of them, help!

(Who the heck is the umpire in the comic anyway? The Change Referee?)

Several years ago I paid my dinner bill at a restaurant in Maine and received a Canadian dime in change. I took two 5cent mints as my change and started to leave. The cashier told me I could noe do that but must use US money to pay for the mints, even though I hd never touched the dime. I left and do not know what she did, but assume she eventually put the dime back into the register.

Funny, we never have a problem with American dimes in our change! (There was a time last year when Canadian money was worth more than American, but if you blinked you would have missed it)

Just use it to level out that wonky side table leg.