Saturday, March 18/2017

Now trying to dispose of excess copper coins - euro five, two, and (especially) the tiny one cent pieces. The one cent ones are worth less than the smallest Canadian or British coins, but they seem to accumulate and they're heavy. The bus driver is willing to take a few per trip. Possibly more than a few for all I know. There are limits to how unreasonable I'm prepared to be. The best place to get rid of them should be the supermarket but it's hard to predict the exact total and embarrassing to hold up the queue scrabbling for change, so I usually leave with more copper than I came with. Today at Prinos the strawberries on the outside stands are 95 cents for 500 grams. Local and lovely. So I hand the man a fifty cent piece, two twenties and five ones. He looks at the coins in his hand with disdain and returns the ones. Not worth the bother.