Re: Big purple digit

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:53:10 -0700 (PDT), Joel Polowin
<jpolowin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I was told recently by a friend that when she went out to dinner with
>a group during a Canadian con, an American in the group was boggled
>when she tried to pay with U.S. currency and was told that the
>restaurant wouldn't accept it.  It had never occurred to her that she
>might need to use Canadian currency; after all, they're *worth* about
>the same right now.  (Apparently the restaurant was newly-opened and
>was still working on payment options.)
>
>Contrariwise, some years ago when I was out for dinner during a U.S.
>con, the waitress found out that I was Canadian and told me sternly
>that "You have to pay in U.S. money, you know."  It had never
>occurred
>to me to try to do anything else, and I've sometimes wondered what
>her
>problem was.

Wheni was in Canada - the one time i was, in 1990 - stores and gas
stations in Hamilton were happy to accept US currency; your US
waitress may have had experience with Canadians who knew that and
assumed it would work the other way.

It ought to, in states along the birder, anyway, in my opinion. 

I remember the Burger King in San Ysidro that had prices in both
dollars ands pesos, in that regard.

It used to be common to see billboards in Georgia along I-75, the main
raceway to Florida, announcing that this or that truck stop happily
accepted Canadian money...