Hi Claude ! and the rest of you folks . This may sound like I'm pulling your leg , but it's a true incident .
About 40 plus years ago we had to move to a state with a warmer climate because of health problems my second son had . There were many small towns along the St Johns river at that time.. Most folks made rheir living from commercial cat fishing , blue crab trapping , orange picken , drawing sap for turintine from the pines etc , Thease were REAL people and lived honestly and simply.
Any way to try to make a very long story a little shorter , there was a combination laundermat/ bait shop just down the the road from our house . Some times when I would get in from work early I'd stop by the bait shop , pick-up some bait and take the Wife aand kids down to the town dock to fish. The first time while I was picken out my bait some young boys came in for change for the dryers . At that time they used dimes , The boys would stand by the counter and the owner / operator would spill a hand full of dimes on the counter and let the boys pick out the coins they wanted .Guess how the dertimed the Right coins ? Yep , they Bit them ! I asked the boys why they Bit the coins , and they said their MaMa's didn't want none of those " Hod " dimes .
One other thing that always gives me a chuckle to this day , is many of the older ladies woud bring their "Washing Sticks" and open the machines between cycles and "Punch" the clothes down . This operation oft times led to having to do repair work on the machines . The owner used to try and disarm thease Ladies before they got in the laundy , but a few would always manage to smuggle in their " Wash Stick ".
So watch Out and don't take no more "SOFT DIMES"... :thumbsup: