Saturday, October 08, 2005

Fiscal Orphans

To the global traveller, they're little reminders of a journey that appear in your pocket for several months, constantly rejected by parking meters and checkout operators. If you remember, are awake and can be bothered, you can deposit them in boxes at airports, banks and charity shops where, hopefully, they'll be put to some good. If you have moved around Europe in the last decade or so, you will have piles and piles of defunct ones, rejected and shunned by the brash new Euro.




Please find a use for them. Prop up tables, adjust the tappets on Hillman Imps (an old British car of the 1960s), possibly play tiddlywinks or put them in a jar and make a door-stop. Just give them a life, they deserve it, they worked for you.

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