5/30/2007: Stephen Has Completed "Penny For Your Food"

Ok, this was a pretty crazy task. I put what I thought was $5.50 of pennies in a ziploc bag.


Then I went to New China restaurant in Morganton. Tyson met me there to help out. I ordered the Chicken Chow Mein. It came to $5.30


The cashier girl was as nice as she could be about it. Tyson and I started stacking pennies on the counter, while customers came and went. Somehow I badly miscounted when putting the pennies in my bag, as I was 14 cents short, so I pulled the classic run out to the car and grab more pennies. The pennies can be seen on the right side of the counter in this pic.


I don't know what she did with the pennies afterwards, cause she did not start picking them up before we left. Here's a better closeup shot of most of them.


Here's a shot of Tyson and I afterwards, as I held the empty ziploc bag and my take out order.


I also had a first. My fortune cookie was empty. What does that mean? :(


But that's not all. I have, for you, the uncut audio from the entire transaction. It is around 15 minutes long, so load it up and listen along while you are surfing the net.
Pennies For Your Food (6.7 MB)

5/29/07: Allison assigns "Penny for your food" to Stephen

Stephen, your task is to go to a gas station, eatery or just anywhere where you have to buy something, and spend $5.00 or more on something, but paying with pennies only.

Requirements: Spend $5.00 or more using pennies only, and the pennies can not be in rolls. To get 500 pennies, you may have to go to a bank, but that shouldn't be too hard. Tell us how the cashier reacted, and how the people behind you in line (if there were any) reacted.

Be sure to count slow so you don't have to start over counting..