My Commerce piggy bank was full and that meant that it was time to pay Penny a visit. Penny is the girl who lives inside the coin counting machine at Commerce bank and when I visit here from time to time she challenges me to guess within $1.99 how much change I have brought to her. It sounds easy to guess within $1.99, but trust me it’s a most difficult challenge.
I’ve come very close on multiple changes, but I just sensed that something would be different this time. After pressing go, the challenge began. After weighing the bank in my right hand one last time, my guess was $58.63. Now Penny’s counting would begin.
To my delight she congratulated me on my guess as the total was $57.17, which in fact is within the $1.99 range that was necessary to claim victory. I took my receipt and headed to the teller, eager in anticipation of what glorious prize awaited me.
With an ear to ear grin I presented the receipt to the teller. He immediately congratulated me on my excellent guess work. Then presented me with a Commerce coin bank. Actually an identical Commerce coin bank as the one that I had walked in there with. I was a bit stunned, another coin bank? Not even a t-shirt? I felt a bit ripped off, and took several lollipops and a pen just to feel as though I walked away with something for my hard work.