The Coin Shortage has stores asking us to round up purchases or paying by VISA or taking two dimes for a quarter and yet...there is hard money left behind, up for grabs!
Airline passengers walked away from about a million bucks in loose change at the airports across America last year!
There are three airports serving Marylanders who feel the urge to fly away to distant locals, Ronald Reagan Airport, Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall, and John Foster Dulles, and Dulles led the three in unclaimed moolah.
Someone has the job of putting out a report entitled "Unclaimed Money at Airports" for the reading enjoyment of members of Congress. Here is what we learned from that:
Last year, the Federal Aviation Transportation Armed Security Service (FATASS), known also as the TSA, rounded up $926,030 in unclaimed money, including $18,899 in foreign currency.
Francly, a lot of it was French money, although a lot of Mexican pesos were in the hopper too. Mexican money is called that because they have to peso much for things down there.
The airplane security people are going to use that 926 thousand simoleons for "aviation security programs." The last time I was on an airplane, Wilbur Wright was there too, so I don't know what that entails anymore, besides taking off everyone's shoes.
When the security people are patting you down, you have to empty your pockets and put everything in them into bins. The TSA says there are advertisements in the bottom of those bins, and reading them seems to distract people.
Advertisements are everywhere! I have no doubt that when they close the lid on that one-man bungalow with silver handles down at the Stiff Bros. Funeral Home, an ad is the literal last thing we see.
But, to get back to the point, the TSA should spend those coins and get them back in circulation.
Tomorrow, let's figure out how to open the schools in time for Christmas break.
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