Two teenagers see a ten-year-old kid hanging around outside a drug store. The teenager says to his friend, "Watch this."

Posted by LadeeAlana@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 37 comments

He reaches into his pocket and takes out a nickel and a dime. He holds them out to the kid and asks him which one he wants.

"I'll take the nickel."

He grabs the nickel, and they go away laughing.

"He always thinks the nickel is worth more, 'cause it's bigger!"

The owner of the drug store is watching all this from the door, and he says to the kid, "Come on, now, you know the dime is worth more. Why didn't you take the dime?"

"If I took the dime he wouldn't want to pull that joke on me any more."

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KaizenHour@reddit

It's funny how nickel and dime are such common terms online, but I've got no idea what each is worth because I'm not from the US. It even says 'dime' on the coin itself.

I hear the 'penny' is being phased out

(I have a fairly good guess at what a quarter involves, but i don't think most countries have 25c pieces)

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loweredvisions@reddit

Technically they’re not worth anything because our currency is backed by unfettered capitalism and empty promises.

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tom_swiss@reddit

US currency is backed by the fact that US citizens need it to pay US taxes, or they will face guns and cages owned by the US government.

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LadeeAlana@reddit (OP)

One thing about the IRS: if you can't pay, they will give you time.

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KaizenHour@reddit

NARRATOR: The judge did not agree, and he was found guilty of theft

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wvmusicmaster@reddit

Penny = 0.01 of a dollar, Nickel = 0.05 of a dollar, Dime = 0.1 of a dollar, & Quarter = 0.25 of a dollar

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lastberserker@reddit

There are also half dollar coins that are hard to find and don't have a special name. I insist that these must be called halflings ✅

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DonSechler@reddit

There used to be 1/2 penny, 2 cent, 3 cent, and 20 cent coins to, and a nickel used to be called a half dime and was made of silver (not the same size as a nickel it was half the size of a dime)

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570250@reddit

Don't forget we had the dollar coin with the female Native American Sacagawea on it, at least for a while. I think those have been phased out though.

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kaori_irl@reddit

i mean quarter, quarter dollar... but as to half dollars, collectors (especially those on r/CRH) shorten it to halves

as to halflings... cute, but they're the biggest currently circulating american coin lol

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Last time I was in Europe, there was no one Euro note ( paper money ). The smallest note was a five Euro. Coming from America, with our one dollar bills, it was hard to get used to one Euro coins and two Euro coins. The only time I use actual money these days ( not a credit card ) is at my church and my barber. Oh, and sometimes at the post office.

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ZellZoy@reddit

This stroke is old enough that the kid could have bought a burger with that nickel.

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Dramatic-Set8761@reddit

And he'd be a millionaire now.

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carmium@reddit

Yep. Originally set in a barber shop, with the barber entertaining his clients. #52 or thereabouts.

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mwhelm@reddit

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that joke…

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LadeeAlana@reddit (OP)

You'd have a dime.

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Shamino79@reddit

Should just demand a dime then the joke stops.

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MrGeekman@reddit

"Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered."

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Woo-Cash1900@reddit

The day I take the dime is the day I stop getting free money.

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Moist_Board@reddit

Are you the kid??

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Flimsy_Shape9406@reddit

10 year old Elon right there.

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Unique_Anywhere5735@reddit

Elon would have taken them both and run.

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thejovo59@reddit

And then claim that he invented them

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kaori_irl@reddit

"If coins are sure to result in victory, then you must have coins!" Elon Musk said that and I'd say he knows a little about coins than you do, pal, because he invented them, and then he perfected them so that no man could best him in the stock market.

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