Loose Change?

Imagine my surprise when I collected 5 years worth of loose change together and decided to cash it in, when I arrived at my local HSBC branch only to be handed wads of roll paper and told i need to roll it. What the FUCK! Is this 1875? You can purchase coin counting machines for a couple of hundred dollars, surely a fucking bank should have them? "Oh no sir, sorry we don't do that".

No problem, right? Surely there's a private sector company who has recognized the need for coin counting machines, and then it dawned on me - yes, I had seen them in Safeway!! Got online only to discover Coinstar had pulled all of its machines out of Canada! For a while it seems there was only one publicly accessible coin counting machine - at Nesters supermarket on burrard st, and lo and behold that too is now gone.....ARGHHHHHH

So after lengthy discussions and complaints, one of my co workers has alerted me to a solution - casinos! Never set foot in a local casino, my theory is you should never use casinos in the city you live in, so i called up the Edgewater Casino - and sure enough they are only too happy to convert bag fulls of coins into gaming tokens, which you can of course redeem for cash....