Where do we spend our loose change?

It has never been a problem here in Hungary to collect a lot of loose change because we need to feed this very hungry meter that is by the branch house.

It is very simple most of the time. We just put a lot of cons in the coin slot located on the upper right hand corner and press the green button and lift up the lid that is below Steve's hand and take out the ticket. Steve has his hand there to cover up some bad words that are in English. If they were in Hungarian we wouldn't have know they were bad because we are only learning good words.

This is what the ticket looks like and we just display it above the steering wheel on the dash. This is one that Steve purchased when he went to the dentist. He got it at 8:43 am and it was good until 9:59 and it cost 400 forint which was  $1.84 last Friday. The amount fluctuates each day as the exchange rate changes all the time. We have enough of these slips to cover the floor of our entire apartment.

Tibor, our English Club friend,  told us last fall that we could go to the Parking Office and get one of these cards that you just slip into the slot and enter the amount of time we need. We weren't exactly sure where it was but knew it was by the chocolate factory. We know where some places are by using our natural instinct. It so happened that finding the Parking Office became more important to us as we needed to go there to pay for a parking ticket. We found out the hard way that we need to pay for parking most anywhere we park in Sopron. While we were there we got this card. There is only one problem, we seem to use up all the money on the card rather quickly. Hum, maybe we will put in more money if we ever remember to go there again. Maybe it will be soon as we heard they give tours through the chocolate factory!