The universe likes mocking me

One of the tasks before leaving the States was to take all the coins Hrefna and I had accumulated around the house and convert them to bills so we could use it up during our last days in the country.

If I had been in Iceland, I would have handed a bag of coins to a bank clerk and they would have deposited it to my account (or handed me bills). In the States however, the banks apparently don’t provide this service, so you have to feed your coins to a Coinstar machine.

Surprisingly, Coinstar takes around a 10% cut of the coins you give them, which I just find absolutely obscene. But, to add insult to injury, it so happened that the amount of money I had in the bag was ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents, exactly thank you very much. Gaaa!!! 🙂

I desperately searched my  pockets, searched the returned coin tray (there were some foreign coins mixed in) and even the floor around the machine but I couldn’t find a single cent to make it an even hundred.

Given that the purpose of the this whole exercise is to get rid of coins, is it too much to ask Coinstar to give back a single cent of their obscene cut to make it an even hundred dollars? It would most certainly make the the 10% cut sting a little less and give Coinstar a chance to delight and surprise their customers. :/