Store clerks at a car dealership in China were left speechless when a customer came in with 66 bags of coins to pay for her new car. After placing her order for the 190,000 yuan (拢21,700) Volkswagen Passat, the customer from Cangzhou city, Hebei province hauled the heavy bags of coins to the shop in three separate trips. Footage filmed in the shop on Saturday shows a dozen workers squatting on the floor and meticulously sorting the enormous pile of change by hand, which amounted to around 130,000 yuan (拢15,000). Elephant in the room! Share 2.2k shares A team of 17 workers spent three days counting the change, which included 1 yuan, 5 jiao and 1 jiao coins, according to store manager Mr Jiao. Video shows staff carefully placing rolls of coins into paper wrappers before putting them in large boxes to be transported to the bank. One worker's fingers have been stained black from touching thousands of coins.
Another work complained that he had a cramp from all the counting. The woman owns a small eatery and got the coins from her customers. The woman owns a small eatery and got the coins from her customers, according to Cangzhou Daily. She decided to save up the money as depositing them at the bank would be too much trouble. After collecting the coins in her house for 10 years, she saved up enough money for a new car. In the end, she successfully paid 131,492 yuan (拢15,033) in coins and the rest by e-transfer, according to the report. Net users were left amused by the incident, with some suggesting different ways for the staff to count the change faster. There are coin counting and sorting machines available. Why didn't the manager use those? I'm sure you can count the change by weight,' another said. Just a waste of time and labour,' one user said. Does the customer operate a wishing fountain at home?
Spam became especially popular in the Pacific theater as a way of feeding American soldiers and their civilian allies. To this day, it remains a staple in Hawaii, Guam, and other Pacific islands, and despite a less than glamorous reputation in the U.S., is becoming an increasingly common ethnic staple. And, judging by Hormel's strange, campy, and entertaining Spam website, the company seems interested in claiming a hipper corner of the sandwich meat market. No longer does the company hide from the mockery its product took during a famous Monty Python sketch. Instead, it's offering a tie-ins on-line video game inspired by the Python-derived Broadway musical, Spamalot. This is another example of another kind of efficiency that's smart in any economic climate - turning a liability into an asset by embracing it. And then there's the tactic of using the material that you've already got on hand. The story goes that Lewis, who had already been dabbling in extremely downmarket films with "exploitable elements," found himself in 1963 with some left over stage blood from another film.
The true story of the first splatter film is a bit more complicated but was another example of economy being the mother of invention. Of course, occasionally a limitation can help creative folks create something that is slightly more artistic. In the early 1980s, the now world-famous independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch was just getting started. In that pre-digital video era, probably the single biggest obstacle to new filmmakers trying to make films was the high cost of the most basic raw material needed - 16mm or 35mm film stock. Still, Jarmusch had obvious talent and Swiss filmmaker Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) gifted him with some "short ends" - portions of left over reels from Wenders' prior film. Jarmusch simply didn't have enough film to make anything very lengthy - so he simply dropped the usual filmmaking strategy. Each scene in his ultra-low-key comedy, Stranger than Paradise, is a single take, separated by black leader. There is no cutting in the usual sense. This bold movie required a great deal of cleverness in how the scenes were staged, which actually became a key part of the film's style and humor. The movie that resulted was, strangely enough, not a gigantic bore but an international hit which turned Jarmusch into the first truly well-known independent director for "arthouse" productions. Waste not, want not.
