That's a GREAT story, Mike. A somewhat realated story....(I didn't witness in person)...I used to work for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas which is a health insurance company and has a lot of old people as customers. The insurance premium keeps going up each year due to inflation and rising medical costs, and the old people on fixed income really hate that. One time, an old farmer drove his pickup truck to the front office and hauled in buckets after buckets of pennies to pay his monthly premium (as in "you took my last penny"). We had no choice but to accept the pennies because they are legal money. We had to send the pennies with the armored truck that picked up money each night and got them counted at the bank because nobody wanted to spend time counting them.

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