When is the last time you saw one of these?

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Useful-Recover4710@reddit

Something similar on a belt at chick fil a earlier this week

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Probably in junior high at the mall Arcade, the guy who ran it had this 50s Grease rockabilly hair, loved his job, exchange a dollar for 4 quarters and watch him dispense coins from this thing on his belt buckle in such a cool manner.

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Loose-Recognition459@reddit

There were definitely a couple arcades I saw them still in use in as late as the aughts, at least before the game credit cards came to be.

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SubstantialRemove967@reddit

Had one literally growing up for my paper route. Which I walked alone. Sometimes, carrying a literal sack of loose cash when I collected for the week.

Ahhhhh, the 90s...

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AdeptAd6213@reddit

A few weeks ago, haha. I work in transportation

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suburbanwalleyepro@reddit

Just now

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trainwreckhappening@reddit

I grew up in a small tourist town. Every business was run by a different family. As kids we all thought of the other kids our age when we thought of the businesses in town. We all had jobs as we grew up and recognized everyone else's kid jobs the way others recognize clothes and albums our friends owned.

There was a restaurant with a game room and a bar all in there. There was a daughter who was my age that always walked around with one of those coin things strapped to her hip. SHE. WAS. ABSOLUTELY. GORGEOUS! For context, I remember her painting the sign on top of the roof once while wearing daisy dukes and a cutoff tee and laughing at the near miss accidents that kept happening at the intersection next to her. She was so pretty that no one ever had the balls to talk to her. The bartender told me she was mostly lonely.

Anyway she always gave me a flirty smile whenever I talked to her and i somewhat regret being too chicken to talk to her. I can't see that without thinking of that pretty little blond girl that was my age with the absolute sweetest personality that I could have had a bit of good clean fun hanging around with if only I hadn't been so wussy.

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muhredditone@reddit

I don't even see them at drive-in restaurants much anymore. I do see them there sometimes, though. Most of them just have a card reader, and they go inside to get change for cash.

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Thereminz@reddit

yeah in high school we ordered pizza one night and the delivery guy had one, but even then we were like, whoa cool (as in like oh it's so old)... oddly enough also last time i saw one of those credit card carbon copy devices was in ordering pizza too.

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Ok-Street7504@reddit

Guy that runs the taco truck around the corner from my work has one.

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Luder714@reddit

When I bought smokes at 16 from a gas station called Kokolene. You'd pull up, a guy outside would come up to your window, you'd ask for a pack of reds and he'd open this cabinet outside next to the pumps and grab a pack, then you'd hand hi a dollar and he'd use one of these to give you like 16 cents back.

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S_A_R_K@reddit

At Sonic

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Competitive_Peak_537@reddit

Hot dog stand lady

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pops_of_3@reddit

Back when they used to hang a tray of food on your driver’s side window.

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col_akir_nakesh@reddit

Same.

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irishprincess2002@reddit

I don't think I even see them at my local sonic anymore but they've gotten so expensive over my way that I rarely go! I know they push the app like crazy and if you don't check in as soon as you park in the designated mobile app pick up spots they come out and tell you to park somewhere else. It's like just chill out you are literally just outside of town and it takes the internet a second to connect to the app so I can check in which is another reason I don't really go there often.

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Dildo_Shw4ggins@reddit

Twas my first job. Learned how to count back change quick AF being a carhop.

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SpiritIllustrious846@reddit

Same

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red286@reddit

Not sure I've ever seen anyone using one IRL. I've seen them in movies and TV shows, so I know what it is, but I've never actually seen one in person.

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sal101010@reddit

A very long time ago! I remember them on (British) buses as an easy way for the driver to dispense change.

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LegallyRegarded@reddit

never

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johny5k@reddit

Today actually, but it was just a picture of one.

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BossDjGamer@reddit

There’s one on your mom’s dresser

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LeftOn4ya@reddit

I had one for the longest times. I remember having garage sales and using it and everyone wanted to buy it from me but I refused. However not sure what happened to it and I think it disappeared in a move about 12-15 years ago.

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EveryoneChill77777@reddit

Schemer at Shining Time Station

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goat_penis_souffle@reddit

Or Blip from You Can’t Do That On Television

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EveryoneChill77777@reddit

Your user name. It is equal parts terrifying and intriguing

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banryu95@reddit

Yes!!! Why the heck did he have one of those? Was I the only one who just associated those with shady con men or something? Did they have an unsavory association?

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legsjohnson@reddit

He owned the jukebox

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EveryoneChill77777@reddit

Nickles*

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Hyper_Applesauce@reddit

No, they're just for making change.

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JosephMadeCrosses@reddit

At Cho mommas house.

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wetfloor666@reddit

The last time would've been in an arcade sometime in the mid-90s before they shut it down and the cinema in the mall.

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DriftlessHang@reddit

Still using them at the local A&W

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Felinius@reddit

It was one for just quarters, but when I went to the Namco arcade/museum in St Luis.

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Dentrvlr@reddit

Elementary school

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5uck3rpunch@reddit

Probably at a NJ flea market in the 80's.

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have1dog@reddit

The conductor on an Amtrak train from Chi to NYC had one back in 2010. That’s the last one that I remember seeing.

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AQUAmomma777@reddit

The other day in the CFA drive thru

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Baked-Smurf@reddit

Like 3 seconds before I made this comment

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Accomplished_Pen980@reddit

Leonard Hoffstader

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NeighborGeek@reddit

I actually ordered a cash belt just last month, and it came with a plastic version of this. It didn't have the push button to eject coins, but each slot was spring loaded and you just slide the coin out the top.

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Stuporhumanstrength@reddit

What is this, a decorative castle you put in your fish tank to teach fish how to count and sort coins?

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nofunatallthisguy@reddit

Couple of weeks ago, riding a bus in Albania

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Addamall@reddit

At Shiney time station

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erosmoker@reddit

I always had an obsession with these as a kid, so my mom bought me one for Christmas when I was 11. 1994

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OneSpirit6018@reddit

I will be using mine this weekend at the Gentleman's Club.

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LoungeFly1984@reddit

Last time I went to a canteen truck.

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tedzirra@reddit

On my knick knacks shelf.

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CannaPeaches@reddit

Chicfila drive thru everyday

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Glittering-Station78@reddit

A&W. At least the one with the car still has them.

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spicycyberloser@reddit

On a train growing up. I think maybe early 90’s.

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CariniFluff@reddit

Good call, the train engineers on Metra (Chicago's regional commuter rail system) trains still carried those just a couple years ago (and possibly still do).

I haven't seen anyone pay for a ticket with cash in a while and they changed the zones/fees so maybe it's flat dollar amounts now, but there was definitely the last time I saw these in action.

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danthemanstoned@reddit

Ice cream truck, in the 80's for sure

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CariniFluff@reddit

I drove an ice cream truck in the mid 00's and only had the tray pulled from a cash register. It was the best job ever for a college student on summer break. My customers were the anti-Karen; everyone was SO happy to see me.

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Triumph790@reddit

Last week. Some of the conductors on the commuter rail in Boston (MBTA) still have them on their belts for the cash fares.

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Super_Fa_Q@reddit

Today.

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AshDogBucket@reddit

I did have this though...

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cowboyja@reddit

I had this too!

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MegaRadCoolDad@reddit

The first time i remember seeing one was Shaggy using one on Scooby Doo. I wanted one so bad because it would mean infinite quarters for the arcade.

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Food-Blister-1056@reddit

Right now here on Reddit, used to use one when I pumped gasoline at a full-service gas station in 1980.

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dvoecks@reddit

Delivered pizzas in college and never carried it. Almost nobody asked for coins back, but I had enough in my pocket.

I had a coworker who always carried his, which came in handy the day some guy told him to keep 4 cents like he was doing him a favor. He quickly dispensed 4 pennies and chucked them through the closing door.

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Available-Crow-3442@reddit

Media? Schemer on Shining Time Station.

In real life? Mall arcade when I was a literal child.

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like_shae_buttah@reddit

Seinfeld

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productofyourinviro@reddit

Still have one sitting on my desk to this day, wife likes to raid it when she gets a sweet tooth.

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toomuchtv987@reddit

A couple of weeks ago at Sonic!

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Basic-Pair8908@reddit

Pool cue holder?

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Upbeat_Experience403@reddit

I know what it is but I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone actually use one

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grittysgal@reddit

What is it?

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JollyJeanGiant83@reddit

Change sorter. Dispenses nickels, comes, etc.

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Prestigious_Egg_6207@reddit

Why does it have five slots?

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Espexer@reddit

Pennies, nickels,dimes, quarters, quarters.

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bikeonychus@reddit

I know what it is from TV/movies, but I genuinely never saw them in the UK.

I think our version of it is a leather of canvas belt with a short apron at the front with a couple of pockets for various change.

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Lou_Skunnt69@reddit

Used to have one as a kid. My grandpa gave it to me. Was in my room until I left for college.

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ljofa@reddit

Probably a bus conductor in the 1980s.

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Moliza3891@reddit

Somewhere around 2001-2007 when I worked in a grocery store. One of our regular customers had one and used it when he paid. I hadn’t seen one before that, and haven’t since.

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Moliza3891@reddit

Somewhere around 2001-2007. I worked in a grocery store and left by 2007. When I cashiered, there had been this old guy that carried one of these about and used it when he paid.

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HYThrowaway1980@reddit

On a bus conductor here in the UK, circa 1990.

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thegoatgod@reddit

Just now in that picture

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cbih@reddit

In Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The streetcar guy had one.

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YorkiesandSneakers@reddit

Sonic carhops still carry them.

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MarstonsGhost@reddit

A few weeks ago, on the ticket-checkers belt on the train to Chicago.

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Happy-For-No-Reason@reddit

about three seconds before typing this, what is it

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Ditzy_Davros@reddit

Chick fil A still uses them

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RootDDoot@reddit

Timeout arcade in the Finger Lakes Mall

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S1ayer@reddit

Nathan's arcade in the 90's

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bloodectomy@reddit

Damn I genuinely don't think I've seen one of those in person since maybe the early 90s or so

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madcaplaughs30@reddit

On the train about 6 hours ago

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ryguymcsly@reddit

It was the year 2000. I was delivering pizzas and wore one.

Then my manager talked shit on a rainy night where I was the only driver and he told me I was making deliveries too slow while also yelling at me that he'd gotten phone calls from people that I was driving 'too fast' on their roads (the business had delivery cars with the company name and number on the side). I'd just driven by the punk rock venue where I helped friends run shows and there was a show I really wanted to go to happening. He caught me at the wrong fucking moment.

I said something that I thought was clever at the time but ended with "fuck you, I quit" and put my money pouch and that changer in OP pic on the counter and I don't think I've seen one since.

Got into the punk show for free though and got free beer all night because everyone thought it was hilarious I quit my job basically to go to a punk rock show.

Meanwhile asshole manager had to close early because when I quit he couldn't stay open. In fact, they had to close early most nights for about a month after that. The assistant manager guy kept calling me asking me if I wanted my job back and I had to keep telling him I'd start working there again if the manager stopped working there. The manager was a partial owner of the place so that was never going to happen.

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