Wednesday, July 22, 2009

a legitimate question...

so I was helping a customer at the register today and he was counting out the change he had dumped all over the counter and he looks down at this quarter and goes: "since when did Guam become a state?"... and I said: "seriously Guam is on a state quarter? That's really weird." And I would have been ok with that being the end of our conversation (especially since the transaction was complete and a line was forming behind him), but apparently this guy knows a bit about politics. He proceeded to tell me how Guam is pretty far from becoming a state, that Puerto Rico is much closer (fyi if they wanted to be a state, our government could vote on it and they'd be part of the union tomorrow... that's how close they are:), and went into several of the logistics of how one becomes a state (something about populations and constitutions and whatnot). Being not very politically savvy, nor having much of a vested interest in the "discussion", my side of the conversation went something like this: "oh, I see... well, that's very interesting... I did not know that... ok... yeah... good work Puerto Rico..."

3 comments:

sam said...

Ha! This reminds me of the year Puerto Rico was actually voted on (they lost). I was in school and I think that was the semester I took Poli-Sci. People were so upset at the thought of Puerto Rico being a state... it was kinda funny.

Margaret said...

Guam is on a state quarter?

Anonymous said...

"The Guam quarter will be the 3rd release of the DC and US Territories Quarter Program."

So I guess we've passed from State Quarters to Territory Quarters. (see above quote)

Who knew?? ;-)

Love Dad