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Permalink Reply by Jesse -D-> on February 9, 2009 at 12:14pm

so your shop isn't in prison......probably better that way.

John Fogleman said:

who tipped us weed? and what did you do with it?

-ive had, literally, the contents of someones pocket (a button, lint, random paper scraps, etc.)
-those stupid religious tracts that look like money, but when you see them and your hopes get up, you only come to find that you're a crappy person...buzzkill for sure.
-someone pumped syrup in our tip jar once. we had to wash all the money. and it smelled good.
-one time, this girl put a $20 bill in the jar, and my fellow barista and i were quite happy, until the girl came back up and said it was a mistake, took it out, and replaced it with a dollar. womp.

-one time someone tried to offer me cigarettes as currency to buy something. its not a tip jar story, but they actually thought it was a good idea and it would work. it didn't.

cavirett said:

1. Marijuana
2. foreign coinage
3. religious tracts

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Permalink Reply by Jack Shipley on February 9, 2009 at 2:57pm

A note advising to wash behind my ears. Just last night.

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Permalink Reply by Troy Reynard on February 10, 2009 at 5:36pm

We got a plastic penny last week, and we get tips thrown in the dog treat cup all the time.

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Permalink Reply by Laurence on February 10, 2009 at 6:04pm

Euros, Different Asian coins, south American coins, receipts, cigarette butts, a cigar, and arcade tokens

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Permalink Reply by Eli Kalen on February 10, 2009 at 8:52pm

It would have to be a Old School NYC Subway Token.

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Permalink Reply by Eli Kalen on February 10, 2009 at 8:58pm

Years ago I really got into looking for coins made out of silver.
Dimes, Quarters, Half dollars, Dollars from 1964 on down where
make of pure silver.

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Permalink Reply by Emily Keith on February 11, 2009 at 2:51am

#1 - A used bandage - ewww...
#2 - An awesome earing - that I still occasionaly wear
#3 - Foreign currency - nothing too exciting

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Permalink Reply by Emily Keith on February 11, 2009 at 12:35pm

Oh yeah, and we occasionally get Chick-fillet free sandwich cards.

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Permalink Reply by courtney marie on February 11, 2009 at 1:19pm

foreign money.
big bird figurine.
an apple.
guitar pick.

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Permalink Reply by rothko on March 14, 2009 at 5:41pm

'round these parts people tend to throw in mexican pesos by mistake. although i also ended up with a chinese coin once. never got any strange or interesting objects though...

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Christerson on March 14, 2009 at 6:45pm

I've had sweaty dollars... and a phone number is probably the best thing...

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Wray on March 15, 2009 at 12:12am

1. Wind up plastic sushi
2. $100
3. Key and a note that said, "Bike is locked up outside, sorry to hear about your car." For a barista who's car had just broken down, but lived close enough to bike.
4. Lots of different CD's from local artists.
5. All sorts of candy... usually kinds I have never heard of before that are organic of vegan or something abnormal
6. We used to have someone put a religious tract in the tip jar EVERY SINGLE DAY. We finally asked the person to please stop and explained that at that point we had received enough for every barista to get at least 5 each and that we had started just throwing them away... BTW... I went to this person's church!
7. A "full" punch card from our shop... haha, as if we needed the free drink??
-bry

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