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Hmm, maybe Bean can help me out on this but I don't think we use our SS for anything other than government identification (eg. setting up your tax situation in a company, paying taxes, et al).
In Québec our medicare number, our driver`s license, employee number are all different. Makes for a lot of numbers to remember.
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it can be annoying to realise, too late, that the one dollar coin one has just inserted into a vending machine was actually worth $2.50!You put MONEY in VENDING MACHINES? 
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Capital Kiwi : You put MONEY in VENDING MACHINES?
Oh, yeah. And in parking meters, public telephones, toll road baskets, laundromat washers and dryers ... so if you travel in USA, find a Bank and get a couple of rolls of quarters ($5 per roll) and bunch of one dollar bills.
Some vending machines are set up to provide change but not all are ... and sometimes the machines which are supposed to give you change do not ! so I make sure I have a few $1s on hand at all times!
When travelling, the ashtray is a handy place to keep the quarters and a few $1s.
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And as I said before, use correct amount when purchasing packets of stamps from vending machines in US Post Office, or you get in your change those censored deleted unprinted silver dollars that are so easily mistaken for quarters.
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CapK sniggered You put MONEY in VENDING MACHINES? That's right, my whriendly WhanganuiaTaran, gloat away. Here in little ole Hicksville (LIU), we don't yet have them newfangled vending macvhines wot takes them EFTPOS cards. When they does gets here, I'll be usin 'em.
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You put MONEY in VENDING MACHINES?
Reminds me of seeing a little kid whining to his mother that he put is money in the gum machine, but didn't get any gum. In strong ethnic accent, his mother coached him:
"So beng it a leedle!"
There were also some "phreaks" years ago who could fool phone operator into thinking they had deposited a coin by belting the box. So, CK, are you a vending machine phreak?
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All right, what are you all on about? Doesn't everybody put money in vending machines? Is junk food free in other countries???? [colour me confused emoticon]
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BelMarduk asked Doesn't everybody put money in vending machines? Is junk food free in other countriesFor my part, I took CapKiwi'squestion to be a refrence to the latest generation of vending machines that are starting to pop up here in NZ. These new machines are operated by cards, either credit cards or debit (POS) cards. Some use rechargeable swipe cards which come in set values and have the appropriate sum deducted from their memory after each use. The more I waffle on about these new vending machines, the less likely it seems to me that they were what CapK had in mind. Kindly ignore the above babblings.
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CapK sniggered You put MONEY in VENDING MACHINES?
That's right, my whriendly WhanganuiaTaran, gloat away. Here in little ole Hicksville (LIU), we don't yet have them newfangled vending macvhines wot takes them EFTPOS cards. When they does gets here, I'll be usin 'em.I wasn't sniggering, I was shocked. I thought that you just banged them on the side and they coughed up whatever it was you wanted, and that they know what you want through AI telepathy. I, um, never use them at all, you see!    And in answer to wwh's suggestion that I might be a phone phreak, please sir! Have more respect for my integrity! I used a small copper strip which you inserted behind the face plate of the phone to hold the money lever down while I stole phone time, my good man. None of this crass and unnecessary vandalism for me, no sirree! (And I haven't done THAT since about 1960. I think the Statute of Limitations applies or at least that's what I'll claim.)
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I used a small copper strip which you inserted behind the face plate of the phone to hold the money lever down while I stole phone time, my good man
My stepgrother used to be able to make free phone calls from the older coin phones by tapping the connector button thingies to bring the number to 0. So, for example 878 2754 would be 232 8356. I never had the dexterity to pull off the rapid sequence of taps required. This enabled me to adopt an utterly spurious air of moral superiority.
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