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    >   Cyberpope wrote --   
      
    > > Others think the change not worth bending over for   
      
    >   I was lurking around the pay machine for a pay lot (amazing how people   
    > fight each to pay when I'm around) that took coins.   
    >   This woman dropped about 20 cents when putting money in.  I told her   
    > about this and she said she was not picking up little bit of change.  I told   
    > her   
    > I would and did.   
      
   I found a nice score a whi8le back in my local grocery's coin counting machine   
   (you pour your jar of coins into the hoper, it counts them, gives you a slip to   
   take to the cashier, kicking unrecognized coins/slugs/etc into the Coin Rerturn   
   slot.  I'm in my wheelchair, rolling padt, & I sees a nice little stack of   
   coins in there, scooped it up; found a few foreign coins to add to my informal   
   colection, & about $5. Thereafter, I checked it once a week or so, & got $3-4   
   each time.  Then it peytered out; I'm figuring the local kids discovered it,   
   too. . .   
      
   Eventually they puledf the machine; I suspect from people who had pre-counted   
   their coins & complained about not getting full value.  Oh well.  As a kiod I   
   regfularly checked payphone Coin Rerturn slots for the occasional quarter or 6!   
      
   Now I leave them for those with actual need. (homeless, little kids with no   
   allowance(well, ok, some perceived need, too)   
      
   Same as I put my refundable drink containers (pop, juice), when wheeling abnout   
   town, up agaimnst a bus stip pole or shelter,. out of the wind, so those in   
   need can easily grab them. I always appreciuated those kind of people when I   
   was a kid, picking up $5-10/day in 5c bottles & tins on the weekends on my   
   bike.   
      
   They're now 10c, & those over 1L are 20c apiece.  My wife & I leave all our   
   family's retyurnables for our adult daughter to take in (saves us the trouble &   
   part5 of her benefit is pickungt them up from the kitchen cfounters & putting   
   them into a bag in the closet (until full)   
      
   She cabn drop this off at the Return-It depot for a slip/receipt to attach to   
   the bafg giving her credentials, then whebn they count it at night, they   
   deposit the money into an account for her to access whenever. (transfer to hher   
   bank,. or go in, in person, in openinig hours, & withdraw)   
      
   In my time, 5c was the cost when you bought a refundable(by law) bottle, but a   
   bottle depot might only give you 3c, or even 2c, if he felt like it.  When the   
   1.5L then 2L soda bottles came out they were 10c to pay at till.   
      
   Now we pay the 10c for small items plus an Enviro Levy (yes, tax) that mostly   
   goes to the Return-It dedpots to cover their expenses.   
      
   Alcohol containers are refunded at the next rate up from non-alcohol single use   
   beverage containers.   
      
   My wife had to adjust to recyclable containers being worth money here, as tyhe   
   province she was from had no such laws (our containers are printed "refundable   
   by law where applicable" or "refundable except in ON, NB, QC."   
      
   I t hink it's a grand plab -- I'   
   d like to see ir expanded to other recyclables & litter items, like fast food   
   cups, straws, etc, & maybe even cigarewtte butts.   
      
    > > picking up refundable drink containers   
      
    >   The first year after my father died, my mother and I had a rough go.   
    >   I would pick up pop bottles (when they were glass and had to pay a   
    > refundable deposit) and after I turned in so many I would have enough to buy   
    > a full bottle.     
      
   'twas 5 for me to get a 25c bottle of RC. (1 in 6 win; I averaged 1 in 3; I'm   
   suspecting the actual odds were more like 1 in 3 or 4)   
      
    > > Once he saw a pair of jeans -- well run over & weatherbeaten; he rode on   
    > > past, but around the next corner some thing told him to go back, so he   
    > > did, checked the pockets & found $300 in cash!   
      
    >   In addition to that, today he could resale those jeans as "distressed"   
    > and make a fashion statement.  :)   
      
   True enough.  The jeans the young girls wear today! My sister would not have   
   even allowed out the door in such! If she did anyway, wshen older, it'd only be   
   because she'd chosen to move out on her own.   
      
    > > Broiken, discarded bikes in the ditch, come back later with the truck,   
    > > bring em home & fix them & give away, or sell cheap,   
      
    >   At one time the Marshall University PD (and city PD) would give a fella   
    > in town all the collected lost/stolen bikes from campus(after a period of   
    > time they were unclaimed) who fixed them up (often recycling bits and pieces   
    > from various ones) and gave them t   
    >   That guy died a few years ago and no one does that any longer.   
    >   Those unclaimed bikes are just tossed in a dumpster and wind up in a   
    > landfill.   
      
   A shame; thought of taking it on yourself? It's actually quite simple to repair   
   bikes, even easier with hundreds of YouTube videos to coach one.   
      
   In one place I lived, we all worked together on reclaimed 10-speeds, & got to   
   pick oine we could 'pimp out' to our personal preferences, all free, for our   
   own ride. Including choice of paint (the ones we repaired to give away were   
   usually done in cheap bland spray paint colours; I went for metallic midnight   
   blue)   
      
   I miss being able to ride a bike -- now , if I could, i'd never hop another   
   city bus ever -- I'd ride 40 miles to something first.   
      
   I'm of the philosophy that everything is walking distance, if you begin early   
   enough.   
      
    > >  > took a step backward and one found himself front of them.  :)   
      
    > > Problem is; the voluntold one isn't going to speak up for fear of being   
    > > labelled a wuss, complainer, or reneger, eh?   
      
    >   He had a look on his face like "How did this happen?" but did whatever it   
    > was a volunteer was needed.   
    >   One time working a basketball game I had been on the floor most of the   
    > reason.   
    >   One January day it was zero out with a minus 20 wind chill.   
    >   For some reason the guys who were to work traffic control outside didn't   
    > show up.   
    >   My major called for four volunteers.   
    >   No one moved a muscle.   
    >   After a minute he repeated I need four volunteers.  Then pointed to four   
    > guys saying "You, you, you and you outside".   
    >   I was one of those guys and nearly froze to death, dressed for being   
    > inside and not outside.   
      
   Voluntold you were, yup! & not a choice in that context, eh?   
      
   "for some reason," eh? *LOL*   
      
   No doubt they got supreme shit from the commander & another bout from you 4   
   volunteers, eh?   
      
   I'd think it'd be hard for you guys to be too mad, mixed up with admiration for   
   their smarts & balls, eh?   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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