This post will change your life. I guarantee you will never look at change the same way again. A long time ago someone told me that a 1964 quarter was worth like a dollar because of the silver content.

Well, ever since then, I have searched my change bowls, scanned quarters I receive from cashiers, and looked at the dates for quarters returned from vending machines.

To this date, I have NEVER seen a quarter older than 1965. Below is a picture of a 1965 quarter I got in change from a gas station a few days ago.

SO CLOSE!

I googled "1964 quarter" and basically found out that this urban legend is true. In fact, any quarter prior to 1965 was 90% silver and are acutally worth more than $3.00! Coinflation.com states that "$3.0816858155 is the total melt value for the 1932-1964 silver quarter on April 28, 2008" Don't laugh, that's ALMOST a gallon of gas...well 6 months ago anyway.

Now, I said that this post would change your life. I did not however say that it would change it for the better. In fact, this is a curse that I have lived with for the better part of a decade.

So now, I have passed it onto you. I'm sorry, but you'll never look at monetary change the same way again. You will forever be checking the dates of quarters trying to find that "silver" bullet so to speak.

Let me leave you with this "silver" lining. Since the introduction of the state quarters, filtering out non-1964 quarters has become somewhat easier. Also, the bicentennial 1976 quarter tips you off immediately to the fact that you are not holding a pre-1965 quarter.

Good luck with all this! Have a great day! :-)


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A person could spend their whole life looking for a better local store advertisement. You know the types, a church with a witty pastor or a small family owned business that posts funny sayings and words on their sign.

Well, all I can say is that the Rock Shop has hit the proverbial home run with this one.

Move over MasterCard. I got your Priceless campaign right here.

YES!!!

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Recently, I was driving through Missouri when I ran across some very odd road signs.

I thought it was funny that this "Road Work" sign was half in the ground. Gee, what a wierd thing to see!?!

"Crazy Kids" I thought. I kept driving.

Next, I see what appears to be a "45 MPH" sign upside down in the dirt.

Okey-dokey...looks like the local jokesters had a late night. Those kids!

"Left Lane Closed Ahead"...wait a second! What the...? This is getting ridiculous.

Have you ever heard of people getting out of tickets for running a stop sign because it was obscured by some brush or overgrown tree?

Well, how about this one? "Officer, I couldn't stop as the sign directed because, well, it WAS HALF UNDER GROUND!"

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Ever think YOU have it rough? Do you ever think people don't understand all that you go through on a daily basis? Consider this scenario.


- You're a male. Ok, obviously strike #1 and judging by some of the female readers of this blog, I could probably end the scenario right here. But anyway...

- You're responsible for a child in a diaper.

- Said child does their business in said diaper and you have to change it.

- A female child.

- You're not at home, rather you are out in public.

- You have to go to a public restroom to change the child.

- You need to change the child on one of those baby changing tables provided on the restroom wall.

- Oh yeah, I almost forgot...

- You are unable to SEE!!!

Please. I've heard comdeians joke about braile on drive through ATMs before. Yeah, that's pretty funny cause, like, who would be blind and using an ATM in a drive through?

But now we're talking about a dad with a female child, in a public restroom, who is BLIND.

Yeah, suddenly my problems don't seem all that horrific.

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Does anyone know why this is the case?

I'm sure that there is a good reason, but I don't know what it is. Why do bathroom stall doors open inward?

I mean you already have to navigate public restrooms like you're walking through a biohazard facility which is actively incubating the latest and greatest version of the avian bird flu virus.

So why do you have to straddle the toilet upon leaving the stall? I mean when the stall door opens there are moments were you have like inches between the edge of the door and the edge of the toilet.

I noticed the other day that I use that hook on the inside as a rock climber. I grab that hook and lean backward while I pull the stupid door inward toward me. God help me if that hook ever were to break off!





Can't it just open outwardly like the handicapped stall does?





The handicapped stall proves that it can be done. Bathroom stall doors CAN open outwardly, so why don't they all?

Near as I can tell, here is the only reason for having inward opening bathroom stall doors, and here it is:

You know how in some movies a killer is chasing someone and the person trying to get away runs into the bathroom? What do they always do? The person hiding crouches on top of one of the toilets in the bathroom with the stall door closed. The killer then methodically and slowly kicks in each stall door while looking for the person.

So, if the stall doors only open outwardly, the killer would look ridiculous trying to kick it in.

There we have it. That is the only reason to have inward opening bathroom stall doors. Otherwise, movies would seem silly.

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