That was an incredible coupon

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Hi MyLot, I just found this article, and, well , I sort of fell in love with it. Apparently someone *cashed in* a coupon from 1983. The coupon was for crisco oil, in the amount of twenty cents. It said no expiration date and I guess they weren't fooling. The photo of the coupon looks like the coupon is entirely new. I wonder where the person had it stored all these years? Of course there are comments like - why did someone do this for 20 cents? But I say 20 cents in my pocket is better than 20 cents in the grocery store's pocket - and in the words of my friend who learned it from her grandma - "Cents make Dollars". This, of course opposes what my ex-fiance used to think about (coin) change. When we were in Chicago - the bums (which are apparently on every corner downtown) - would hassle us for money. I would tell them that all I had was a credit card on me (basically true since I didn't want to loose cash money). .... My ex-fiance would freak out, and usually give them money. Or he would agree to give them money, then turn around and run like the wind. One time he gave the beggar a fistful of change (and ran away laughing). He told me between giggles that he had given the man change .... and change is - yknow, worthless. Uhm. Depending on how many quarters were in there it could have been more than a dollar or 2. But whatever - to be fair to him he was from Australia and then had moved to Austria, so he wasn't the most familiar with our coins. But you don't need to be familiar with it in order to know it's not worthless. I did enjoy this though, I wonder what the story was behind all this