A Change Will Do You Good
Thursday, August 14th, 2008A 70 year old Ohio man recently decided to upgrade his ’81 pickup for a new Chevy truck. The interesting part? He paid for half of it in change.
James Jones walked into a Cincinnati-area Chevy dealership and told the salesman he wanted to buy a Silverado. He then produced $8000 worth of quarters, dimes, half-dollars, silver dollars and Susan B. Anthonys, stored in 16 large coffee cans.
Why all the change?
“Paper money will burn, but it is hard to damage coins,” Jones said.
Fair enough. It took the staff 90 minutes to count and sort the hoard of coins; but in the end, Jones drove away in his newly upgraded pickup.
As a former cashier, I just have one piece of advice to add: don’t get in line behind this guy at the supermarket!
