BaggyTrousers wrote:Many of you will be too young to remember the happy pre-euro days of equality between Betty's pounds & the feckin' punt. I was a youngish gossoon in the bank (evil barstewards) when the split in parity was made and recall with horror the long nights those of us below the rank of Manager spent in a border town Stroke City, going through tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of pounds worth of coin, separating the Brit from the Paddy and then making the resulting piles up into wee begs.
Yes we got a fair amount of overtime - in the days when you could still claim overtime & not be seen as a trouble-making communist - but it was a severe pain in the nads and a waste of the valuable time that should have been spent in the Glue-Pot swallying very fine stout.
Ah Baggy you are certainly showing your age now. I think that separation was in about 1978/1979. I certainly remember in 1982 changing real Irish money into real Bank of England finest at the exchange rate of .79. Feck I was 7 years old and had been saving forever and managed to get my paws on £30GBP. I thought I was a millionaire.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Shan wrote:What I usually do when I am about to leave a country using a different currency is to see if any poor homeless folk are about and just give 'em all my change.
Did this in Jakarta once. Got home to realise I'd given the old man my sim card as well...
But I don't think they take 1c or 2c