For those of you who don't follow the life of Thomas P. Dineen to closely (which of course is the majority of anyone), lately I have been temping at a financial institution. Today, I received a Fed Ex to my department, and in it, was a handfull of Euros. Now I had not seen in person or handled a Euro since they have come out, (my last and only truip thus faar to ireland was pre Euro, about 13 years ago) and I was rather surprised. I see where people get the whole "Monopoly Money" initial reaction to these colorful sheets of paper, but upon closer inspection, they were really rather beautiful peices of coin.
I'm also surprised by the foil strip, which I imagine is a higher tech version of the plastic thread in american denominations above $10, but what surprised me the most was the varying size the notes had depending on the monetary value, increasing with that value. I wonder how my user experiance would be withh such a varying array of colors and sizes. Would it be simpler or more difficult. I admit, the standardized green-backs that we American's cling to can be confusing, especially with the more alcohol one consumes, and though not often, I have wondered, did I give that guy a $20 and tell him to keep the change... or was it a $50?!?! I do imagine having not only a size differential as well as color (or colour if reading on the other side of the pond) could be beneficial in that situation, but considering how dark bars can be, and how desensatized one can become from that much imbibing, it's rather mute. Don't they also say everything looks bigger when your drunk? or is that when your a child?
Irregardless, it was an interesting chance to break the mundane today by experiancing something out of the norm, at least in my sheltered life, and I think I may go to the main branch tellers and do a withdrawl in Euros, in varying denominations, just so I can keep soething exotic in my poket. Howevr useless it may be in this town.
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1) Irregardless is not a word.
2) That's awesome. If you get some Euros, show me, I'd love to see them.
3) They may not be all that useless. You could adopt an Irish accent and tell women at the bars that you just got in from Dublin. To the bartender, but loud enough to be overheard: "I'll have a pint of Guinness. Damn, all I have are Euros! Nevermind, mate." That's where she steps in a buys it for you. At least, that's how it works in my head.
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