How to feel old. (I am old). I took a shit load of coins to the bank coin counter. $280 worth....

[3Hotdogs]

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Stuff that was rejected by the machine, included a battery, a couple of foreign coins and two Garden State Parkway tokens.

--- the coins were my Mom's and 'nuff said.

The kid at the bank. "What are those for/ The subway?"

I then had a conversation with two older women behind their desks about Parkway tokens. Long lines on weekends to get to the toll booth to drop tokens in. Fishing for change to pay for the toll before the tokens came into use.

The kid was probably not even born when they were discontinued. 2002.

[NJCher]

1. I had to do a search for "tokens"

the other day and it turned up a thread on Reddit. I think it was some kid who found them and genuinely didn't know what they were!

Not too sure on this as I only scanned the thread for a second or two.

[multigraincracker]

2. There are 20 year olds that have never rolled up a car window

or dialed a phone number.

[progressoid]

3. It's interesting that the "cha ching" sound that we associate with money...

comes from a machine that hasn't been used for generations. I would imagine that most people have never seen an actual cash register that makes that sound. Yet they all know it means $$$$.