RE: Post the Host Comments from the week of 07.25.21 from Phil from Preston, England RE: using shopping carts in Europe:
The Aldi’s food store chain here in the States has the same system for their shopping carts, with a quarter being the necessary coin. Often, as one is approaching the chained carts, if someone has just finished with a cart, they will pass it over to you and refuse to take your quarter, simply suggesting you pass it on to the next person. (And I do!) Very nice.
RE: Most of the time on The Writer's Almanac you announce the date saying Two Thousand AND Twenty One, however, on occasion you will say Two Thousand Twenty One. Do you think one or the other or both of these ways are correct? And do you think this might be a massive waste of ANDs?
Shopping carts and quarters. The value of currency is diminishing, to be sure. But, it's happening to us in the USA at a slow enough rate that it doesn't shock us into awareness. One of the aspects of foreign travel, such as we benefit from on APH Cruises, is to develop some basis of comparison. I remember when my Dad and I were driving through Europe in 1990. We had a rental car. All seemed "well" in Germany and Holland. When we came to a pump in Belgium, though, the prices for a liter were in the four-digit class! Suddenly, there was the sensation that "paper money" wasn't "real" somehow! It gave me a lot more respect for the relative "stability" of the American Dollar! [Oh, and just as an aside, I dwell among far too many Republicans. I long for the day when we can be with "Our Gang!" - APHC and company! We may not agree about every issue, but it's such a relief to be among some nice, Liberal, Democrat folks!
GK,
RE: Post the Host Comments from the week of 07.25.21 from Phil from Preston, England RE: using shopping carts in Europe:
The Aldi’s food store chain here in the States has the same system for their shopping carts, with a quarter being the necessary coin. Often, as one is approaching the chained carts, if someone has just finished with a cart, they will pass it over to you and refuse to take your quarter, simply suggesting you pass it on to the next person. (And I do!) Very nice.
Carol, still in Marion, OH
GK,
RE: Most of the time on The Writer's Almanac you announce the date saying Two Thousand AND Twenty One, however, on occasion you will say Two Thousand Twenty One. Do you think one or the other or both of these ways are correct? And do you think this might be a massive waste of ANDs?
Phil Bangert
Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
Shopping carts and quarters. The value of currency is diminishing, to be sure. But, it's happening to us in the USA at a slow enough rate that it doesn't shock us into awareness. One of the aspects of foreign travel, such as we benefit from on APH Cruises, is to develop some basis of comparison. I remember when my Dad and I were driving through Europe in 1990. We had a rental car. All seemed "well" in Germany and Holland. When we came to a pump in Belgium, though, the prices for a liter were in the four-digit class! Suddenly, there was the sensation that "paper money" wasn't "real" somehow! It gave me a lot more respect for the relative "stability" of the American Dollar! [Oh, and just as an aside, I dwell among far too many Republicans. I long for the day when we can be with "Our Gang!" - APHC and company! We may not agree about every issue, but it's such a relief to be among some nice, Liberal, Democrat folks!
APHC FOREVER!!!!!!