£2 Coin - How Long Till We Get It?
Mon 28th May 2007, 10.50 pm
We've had a £2 coin in Britain now for nearly nine years. I know it's just about the most pointless coin in the world, but nevertheless that is a long time to get used to it.
And yet still a huge number of machines won't take it, or claim to take it but seem to have a lot of trouble accepting the coins.
Sometimes this can work in one's favour, of course. Today we paid for our car parking ticket at the cinema with a £2 coin. The machine printed the barcode on the ticket to let us out of the car park and then politely returned our £2 coin to us. Somehow I doubt any other coin would have had the same effect.
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Operating at caffeine mark 0
I'm feeling sleepy
davep
on Tue 29th May 2007, 8.31 am
Still suffering that problem in Mancland? http://owl.me.uk/blog/98
Rich
on Tue 29th May 2007, 8.46 am
Goodness, you know you're getting old and boring when you blog about the same subject twice!
davep
on Tue 29th May 2007, 10.43 am
Congratulations on your first public "grumpy old man" moment. 
