Anyone who has been to America for even a short while will know what I am talking about. I'm sitting in LAX, the international airport at LA waiting for my next flight to San Diego and I can make calls from any of the 100 payphones around here (I'm not exxagerating, there are probably 100 here) because I dont have quarters. This is I think uniquely american, anything here, whether its a bus-ride, a wash of clothes, a phone call, all need a quarter. And you just cant find them. Sometimes if you are very lucky, someone gives you change or you find a change machine - a machine that changes dollar notes of different denominations into quarter-dollar coins. Well, I haven't been lucky today, not enough change to make a call back home to R, she'll be spitting mad by the time I get enough change to call.
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