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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: zuluwarrior on July 03, 2013, 04:35:35 PM
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That change from a dollar
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
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For some time now I have noted the propsensity of citizens to leave unwanted change behind. I have seen, at the offices of utility companies—TSTT, T&TEC, WASA—that customers who receive change in coins, tend to leave them at the counter. Moreso, if they fell on the ground, no one bothers to pick them up. It seems as though coins are no longer money.
Long ago, in my Hindu upbringing, we were taught to show respect for hard-earned money so that all coins would be collected and put in a jar, to be converted at the bank. Nowadays, school children do not want a 25-cent coin. They prefer to throw it away, literally. Maybe the money is too easy to come by as parents seem to be ever so willing to dole out $100 bills, but this culture must be changed. At a grocery recently, no less than 85 cents spilled from a man who paid for his groceries. He left it there on the floor, even though he was told that his change fell. In fact he swore at the inconvenience of having to pick up the change. He just left it. Well, I should tell you, I picked it up and put it my ashtray as it went towards my daily newspapers.
What a careless people we have become. A day will come when we will cry for the money we throw away; if we throw away a little every day, it all adds up. In fact, if you give a vagrant $1 in change, he will tell you, frankoment, he does not want it. I look down on the hypocrites who quarrel for a one-cent change when the truth is they don’t use it. Now I believe the way forward is for each business to keep a jar in which people can put their change. This can be donated weekly to a charity, a political party or used during midday salaat at the mosque.
Lystra Marajh
Give me my change is mine ah want it ,even a cent or penny as the americans call it .
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i want my damn change.
this fella here is my hero:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWnvNcHdbSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_uAvpk_vs