The price of 5 cents~
- Saturday, August 29, 2009 -
Two days ago, I was buying soya bean milk with my mum at a hawker centre, when I gave the auntie two 5 cents coin together with a dollar and 30 cents, she suddenly gave us a look and said, "Next time try not to give me 5 cents hor, a lot of customers complain if I give them." Lucky she say it in a calm and cool manner. If she were to be rude to me, I would probably just shove the 2 cups of soya milk in to her ***. Therefore, I spend a while thinking why people dislike using 5 cent cojns~In the olden days in Singapore, when the currency of money is still low, people used 5 cents like nobody's business. They use it to buy noodles, buy clothes, take bus, pay taxes, buy kopi etc....However in today's market, with the currency getting higher and almost everyone is affluent, they complain at the slightest poor little 5 cent coin! Even in this developing environment, I don't see why 5 cents is worthless to all. We can use it to take bus too if our Ez-link card no money, buy food from everywhere like supermarkets. If 5 cents is worthless, then why do those products we see outside still state $56.95? They might as well round it up to $56.90 since no one uses 5 cents? Thus I really don't see the reason why we should discard 5 cents into those small boxes beside NTUC counters or some outer boxes for donation just because you got that small unsightly yellow coin. Warning: Use your money wisely and spend it on necessary staff. 5 cents is still money!
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