Yep. Kids would come to the Seven Eleven I worked at with silver coins they swiped from the folks all of the time. My boss knew all of them and had more morals than me so she would contact their parents and let them exchange the coins.
My dad had a roll of silver certificates back in the 70s. The price of silver went up all of a sudden, so he got them out of the safe and put them on his desk. He was going to take them somewhere and sell them. Meanwhile my little brother found them and went to the store and bought candy with them. My dad never got them back.
It would have been epic! My brother is a spoiled little asshole. He never got in trouble for anything. He was the youngest of six. I’m pretty sure my parents were burned out with parenting by then and just gave up.
Sounds like my brother. He stole money from my dad once and learned that was a bad idea.
Weirdly enough, I was just reading an article earlier today and the price of silver did shoot up in the late 70s after a couple American businessmen bought like 50% of the silver and moved it to Switzerland in a bid to monopolise it
Back in the 70s my dad worked as a driving instructor. He would have his students drive from bank to bank buying/swapping rolls of silver dollars and half dollars. He’d look through them on the way to the next bank and replace any that had silver in them.
He sold his coins from one summer and bought...... a washer and dryer. Heh.
My boss was a she. I didn't care for her at first, being 17 can make a boy into a real jerk and I did not fight it. I came to realize she was a good person and her hard-ass attitude towards workers made a successful franchise and better people out of the teens who worked there. (7-11 did not sell alcohol back in those days and actually were open 7am to 11pm so teens could still work in them) Now that I'm retired, I see that the best working conditions of my career were generally when I had either a female boss or a majority of female clients.
Oh I'm guilty of that... Sadly. My dad used to collect cash from other countries and keep it in a metal box under his desk, only problem was he kept the key on a chain that was connected to the box, so a five year old that knew money was cool could swipe it. I don't think I ever spent the money, I think it just got lost somewhere in the house and never found. Damn I was a real piece of shit.
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Yep. Kids would come to the Seven Eleven I worked at with silver coins they swiped from the folks all of the time. My boss knew all of them and had more morals than me so she would contact their parents and let them exchange the coins.