heliocentric's Journal: Project Mayhem: Change

Ok, we will now transition into a weekly scheme for our mayhem. Things from the inaugural week may make a comeback, however.

Your goal for this week is to find some change lying around and donate it to the take-a-penny-leave-a-penny thing. Look in your car, in your sofa, in your cat, look in your desk drawer. Preferably when you make your donation don't order anything or pay for anything. Just walk into your location of choice and deposit some money.

Do record how much money you donated as there may be need to prove the conservation of mass/money and have you return to said locations to retrieve the money you donated.

Report back to here with your donation amounts, the locations, and the general reaction to some flake walking in and dropping a nickel and leaving.

Well, that shuts me right out.

[sebi]

We might have fast-food chains, and gullible people, but what we don't have here in the old world are give a penny, take a penny thingies. Without the movie "Clerks" I might not even be aware of the existence of said things. What we do have at almost every place where you might use cash (i.e. everywhere, plastic is widespread, but happily coexisting with coins and bills) are boxes ready to take your loose change with the hope of forwarding it to charity.

So, this time around I have an excuse. I slacked off

I did one of the other ones...

[TechnoLust]

I introduced myself to a girl at work I've known for a long time, and I know her very well. She just laughed and wrote it off to "one of my little quirks." I like the flip side of that, to go up to a COMPLETE stranger and hug them and ask how they are and how the family is, and say how long it has been since you "last saw them". Good times.

I'll try this one if I can remember. If I were rich, I'd put like a hundred bucks in one and hand the guy at the counter a stack of 10,000 "IOU $0.01" papers, and