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by bsder 876 days ago
> Also, for what it's worth, you're citing "carry quarters" as some kind of dystopic microaggression

Uh, yeah, it actually WAS. Quarters were a non-trivial amount of currency (a little under a gallon of gas) back when downtowns still existed and parking meters took them.

There is a reason why "meter maids" were hated so much.

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The youngest person who was able to drive when gas was a quarter dollar a gallon is now in their early nineties.
Absolutely not, I’m at least 1/2 that age and remember has being $0.35/gal around when I started driving.
There are 100 cents in a dollar fyi.