Strange

[Anakah]

I don't know if this is sucky but it was really odd.

In my casino you can turn in your change. Since our casino no longer has coin machines, tons of people bring up loose change and what not.

Well this man put down his container and asked me for some twenties for his hundred. Now, the part was what his pennies were in...

You know one of those specimen cups you pee in for a drug test? One of those.

I was in the middle of three co-workers. All of our eyes landed on the container. I didn't want to touch it.

I frantically searched for a cup or something else he could dump the coins into.

Nothing. I just sat there and we all stared at it.

Finally after like a min or so of staring my co worker tells me just to take it. I numbly reach, grab it, and dump the coins into the jetsort.

Weird man: I'd like it back please.

My co-worker lost it. She started to crack up.

CW: I'm sorry... Really!
And the customer started to laugh with her too.

So I gave it back to him. The pennies came to one dollar. He gave me the dollar.

Me: Sir, you have no idea how badly I didn't want to touch it...

We were all

Now, I think that it was just his way of pranking us. I don't think anybody would seriously keep their change in something like that. It was strange as hell. Gross. I ran to the bathroom and scrubbed my hands for like an hour.

Looking back, I wouldn't have touched it. Regardless if it was used or not.

[SuperB]

I don't think the casinos in my area even deal with pennies. Even with the new popular penny slots, they just spit out a ticket. Pennies were the one thing you could never have counted.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Got some bad news for ya...the cup was probably far cleaner than the money inside it.

[Banrion]

I was gonna say that this guy is probably a Dr., nurse, or med assist. We have all sorts of specimen cups, biohazard bags etc around our house because of my mom. Putting your lunch in a biohazard bag makes sure no one steals your food too! and those specimen cups are great for transporting salad dressing.

[Bliss]

Btw since I had the idea during one trip to Argentina (I'm Venezuelan and my family is from Argentina) I carry all my coins inside a 35mm film tin (well, they're plastic nowadays). I can fit more than enough coins in it, and that way they're ordered and not bouncing around my pockets.

[Mark Healey]

Looking back, I wouldn't have touched it. Regardless if it was used or not.

An unused urine sample cup is cleaner than the cups they pour your soda into at a fast food joint. It has to be. They don't want any foreign cultures getting in there to mess up whatever test they are going to perform.

[zzapp the witch]

When I was still in the Army, we had a guy fall off the back of a truck and cut his shin open bad enough that you could see the bone. He's just sitting there, rocking back and forth, holding his leg at the knee. No one did anything, just stood there all , so I ran up, dug a sanitary napkin out of my pocket and slapped it on there. He immediately started to chew me out for being disgusting, moving around and generally being an asshat when I was trying to help him and administer first aid. That is, until the DS came up and cuffed him one for not holding still. He got quite the lecture on how pads are very sanitary. To quote, "You think any female would want something dirty to put down there? Dumbass, hold still, the things BUILT to soak up blood." I still marvel that I thought of that at the time.

We've had BBQ's where my friend Larry is in charge of drinks, he brought lemonade and for cups a whole stack of those urine specimen thingers---stole them from his doc's office. Yeah, that was one interesting evening. Did you know they're dishwasher safe?

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"so I ran up, dug a sanitary napkin out of my pocket and slapped it on there."

Maybe you should have stuffed it into his MOUTH.

[Broomjockey]

He got quite the lecture on how pads are very sanitary. To quote, "You think any female would want something dirty to put down there? Dumbass, hold still, the things BUILT to soak up blood." I still marvel that I thought of that at the time.

See, people need to divorce the object from the use it's put to. It's not disgusting until after it's used. Once you get past the "ew, those are used for *blank*, I'm not touching it!" a whole universe of options opens up.

Yes, I did watch MacGuyver a lot as a kid...

[Arcade Man D]

Yes, I did watch MacGuyver a lot as a kid...

Somehow I guessed that from your avatar. :P

[Estil]

I don't think the casinos in my area even deal with pennies. Even with the new popular penny slots, they just spit out a ticket. Pennies were the one thing you could never have counted.

Do they by any chance do penny video poker too? This way I could use a nickel for the max bet (or a quarter for a nickel machine).

[Rapscallion]

I remember when a guy got a really bad nosebleed and started asking the girls around for a tampon.

He didn't get one, but that would have been a Kodak moment.

Rapscallion

[SuperB]

Do they by any chance do penny video poker too? This way I could use a nickel for the max bet (or a quarter for a nickel machine).

I don't recall seeing penny video poker, I'll have to look next time I hit the clubs. (If it exists, it's probably the 50 hand variety) Most are the digital slots where you get to play a video type game if you hit a certain combination. My mother-in-law loves them and actually manages to rack up the comps on them. 'Course max bet can be up in the dollars with some.

[Imogene]

I remember when a guy got a really bad nosebleed and started asking the girls around for a tampon.

That's a scene from She's the Man.
No, seriously. Amanda Bynes plays a girl who dresses up as her step brother, and goes to college in his place. A tampon falls out of her shoe or something, and the guys in the dorm start asking questions, so she sticks it up her nose, and explains it works really well to stop nosebleeds.

[Rapscallion]

Mmm - this was for me in about 1985 or so. When did the film come out?

Rapscallion