You can say it with flowers, you can say it with a smile. You can say it with chocolates or cards. And you can say it with coins. Larry Gasper of Redding, California, decided on the last of these. Larry had got a bit behind in paying his property taxes. In fact, he owed the Shasta County tax collector $12,658. So, just as the county was planning to auction his house, Larry made a trip to the tax collector’s office and paid his bill. In coins. In a wheelbarrow. And two buckets. “It took four of my staff a little over two hours just to count all the cash,” says Mary Axelson, Shasta’s chief deputy tax collector; “and then it took probably another hour to get it bagged up to go to the bank.” But, the loss of 12 staff-hours was better than the alternative, thinks Mary. She says, “I could have turned him away. There is a taxation code section that says we do not have to take payment in coin. But he came in looking for confrontation and I just wasn’t going to give it to him.” So, if you can say it with coins, I’ll leave you to judge what it was Larry was wanting to say to the tax collector.