FIfty-One Cents

A quick little post, before I retire after a long day of "work."

If you ever take a toddler to a museum, zoo, aquarium, theme park, or historical preservation site built upon prehistoric tar pits, be sure to take with you multiple sets of two quarters and one penny. Not just fifty-one cents in any old denomination, mind you; exactly two quarters and one penny. And as I said, you'll want to bring three or four sets of these coins.

Why? Because just about every place that you could visit with a toddler has these stations where you can turn a penny into a small medallion with a souvenir imprint from the venue. You put the two quarters and a penny in the slot, like on a washing machine. Then you turn this big ol' crank in the front of the machine, and it flattens the penny and embosses whatever design you picked.

Oh, and make sure before you put the money in you've turned the crank to the design that you want, otherwise you'll get this mutant hybrid cross between two designs, like when Vincent Price in The Fly becomes half fly, half man. And if you didn't know that there was a version of The Fly before Jeff Goldblum's then get thee to Netflix.

That's it. I realize that this entry's pretty lacking in the Oh-Look-What-Siena-Did-Today stuff. I'll get on that. In the meantime, if someone knows hwo the heck it's leagal to mutilate U.S. currency into cheap souvenirs, please cite me the applicable statute, regulation, or case law.