Over the past few weeks I have decided that one currency for the entire world would be a good thing. In the past week I have gone from Libyan dinars to US dollars to Egyptian Pounds and back to dinars. This week I am going from dinars to British Pounds. Everyone of these transactions is costing me a transaction fee and who knows what else. When I flew to Egypt I had to show my transaction fee paperwork to the airport security guys, so that they can catch anyone that might be laundering money. When I went to the bank to get US dollars converted from dinars I was behind a guy in line that had bricks and bricks of money (dinars) that he was converting. I do not know what business that guy is in, and maybe I don't want to know what business he is in (if you know what I mean).
And why can't money all be the same size like good old US currency. Some of the 20 dinar bills that I have in my wallet are so wide they stick out the top of my wallet. The paper that some of this stuff is printed on is so flimsy that it tears very easily. So whatever paper mill the US uses is the stuff to have.
So I have decided that with all of the billions and billions of dollars that are being printed at our mints in the US these days, we might as well work out a deal with the rest of the world and go with US dollars everywhere. Then we don't have to convert 1 British Pound into $1.44 or 5.60 Egyptian Pounds into $1. I have a headache trying to keep track of how much I am spending. Thank goodness for a currency converter on my iPhone.
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