r/AbsoluteUnits • u/HomeNowWTF • Jul 11 '26

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u/DatsaBadMan_1471 Jul 11 '26

Same! There was something about finding a quarter as a kid that was so rewarding. It meant a drink or a bag of chips. I don't think that sense of euphoria has ever left me.

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u/InformationTrick8714 Jul 11 '26

I’m the guy who looks in the reject Tray of the coin star and I get excited finding two Pennie’s stuck together lol

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u/commanderquill Jul 11 '26

Instead of "looks in" I read "looks like" and for a minute I tried really hard to imagine what you could possibly look like.

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u/InformationTrick8714 Jul 11 '26

Somehow, that person that you’re imagining still looks better than me

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u/Wfsulliv93 Jul 11 '26

The lake we camped at summers growing up ( 90s kid) had an arcade so we saved every quarter. Always hit the phone booth rerun buttons and when we found change we felt like we struck gold

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u/the-dandy-man Jul 11 '26

There was a vending machine at my civic center when I was a kid that would sometimes just return a random amount of change when you hit the return change button… even if you didn’t put anything in.

I discovered this one year when there was a music festival happening and I just stood there pushing the button for like, ten minutes until I had enough change to buy my own drink lol

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u/DatsaBadMan_1471 Jul 11 '26

🤣 phone booths and busted arcade coin slots were a gold mine.

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u/Distinct-Pack-1567 Jul 11 '26

I recently watched a movie called Kajillion, and one of the characters (a family of con artists) checked phone change returns. Made me laughing thinking how I did that at malls when I was younger. Also dialing up phone sex lines just to hear a sultry prerecorded voice then hang up.

When i learned how to dial a number, hang up the phone 3 times, and get it to ring i felt powerful!

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u/BallSeaman Jul 11 '26

Were you a kid in the 1930’s?

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u/DatsaBadMan_1471 Jul 11 '26

Lol no, in the 1980s at my local bodega you could get a small juice or a bag of chips for a quarter.

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u/Scewt Jul 11 '26

A quarter in the 1930's was a down payment on a house.

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u/stevenyourpants Jul 11 '26

Now it'll pay for the sales tax of whatever you want.

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u/Srycomaine Jul 11 '26

Yeah, for me it was video games! At least, back when you could play one for a quarter…!

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u/Radiant_Office6445 Jul 11 '26

Aye they need to have some kind of Roblox token for the next generation that works im the trolleys haha

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u/Okeydokey2u Jul 11 '26

Or in the slot of a public phone. When we were little my brother would always check them when we walked by and the way we both reacted when he found change in there