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Change It Backwards

Definition
The act of presenting your excess change from a purchase to the person behind you in line. The change should then immediately be used by that person toward their purchase and again any excess passed to the person behind them. This act should continue until all change has been used. If no other person is in line the last person is free to keep the change as long as they continue to Change it Backwards on the their next purchase.

This act will prevent excess accumulation of change within the general public.

Origins
"Change it Backwards" was a movement created in the Summer of 2004 at an Exxon Mobile in Baltimore, Maryland. This act of generosity involved the creators Ryan Kennedy of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and his friend Mark Beidelman, also of Mechanicsburg, passing their excess change from a purchase of a Slim Jim and Red Bull Energy Drink to the next person in line who needed $0.06 in order to not break a bill. The change was then continually passed back in line until all of it was exhausted.

Recent Examples
The movement did not take off at this point, but was most recently seen in 2009 at the Walgreen's in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. However, the recipients ignorance of "The Movement" caused them to frightfully decline this generous offer. The good word of the movement must be spread to keep this atrocity from occurring again.

Supporting the Cause
No longer should people suffer the indignity of large sums of change jingling in their pockets or the humiliation of having to return a gallon of milk to the shelf because they are $0.06 short. With the cost of minting coins exceeding the actual value of the coin itself, the "Change it Backwards" movement strives to decrease the amount of coins in circulation.