We have been waiting five years to use this.
Alka Seltzer?
Communion wafer?
Necco Wafers?
(For those too young to remember, or to know, these are Necco Wafers):
Five years ago during our last trip to Europe, at the airport in Toulouse, we used those little rentable carts to carry around our luggage. You drop a Euro into a little slot and the cart is released. When you return the cart and lock it back up the Euro is returned. This little plastic piece is the same size and shape as the 1 Euro coin. You drop in this wafer as if it was a Euro. Somehow we ended up with this extra one which, naturally, I kept, rather than offering to the next person who might have been able to use it right then and there. It was kind of like ending up with two bags of M&M's dropping from the auger dispenser in the coin-op vending machine at work. Like winning the lottery.
I'm using that wafer today in London or Geneva (or is it tomorrow?). Anyway, they've probably changed the whole system, or it's a system in use only in Toulouse, and we'll end up with a useless plastic wafer. It will come in handy somewhere. MacGyver would find a use for it.
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