and there's less coffee in the can than there used to be

[pauraque_bk]

Complaint: People who give excessive amounts of coins to cashiers when making a purchase, while there are other people waiting.

When this starts, it makes sense. If you're buying something that costs $4.01, it makes sense to give me $5.01 so you get a dollar instead of 99 cents back. This *reduces* the amount of time the transaction takes.

But you know, the more change you are trying to give me, and the longer you take to find it in your purse the size of Texas... It reaches a tipping point where the transaction is now taking longer than it would if you just gave me a twenty. And there are people behind you -- remember them?

Please stop taking five minutes to find eighty-seven freaking cents! While you're at it you could also stop acting like you're doing me a favor, and stop smugly bragging about how great it is to "get rid of" all your change. Maybe in your life this is some kind of major accomplishment, but neither I nor the people behind you are impressed.

If you hate change in your purse that much, give it to the homeless guy sitting outside the store, it's win-win that way!

Comments

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's always my big fear when I go for change and then it turns out I don't have it after I almost had it. I'm always like, "Sorry, everybody. Just made everything that much more difficult!"

[pauraque]

I forgive you; love of shiny objects such as pennies is in your nature. ;)

[gmth.livejournal.com]

I was a cashier for many years so I feel your pain. These days, I almost never dig for change unless I happen to see it in my wallet when I'm pulling out my money. I just toss it in the bottom of my purse until it weighs about 15 pounds, then scoop it out into a jar until it's full enough to go to Coin Star. Which reminds me, I actually meant to do that today...

[pauraque]

I became a fan of the Coinstar when I found out it's free if you get a gift certificate! I'll always buy stuff on Amazon regardless, so there's no downside to it. /plug

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never use change unless it's, like, a multiple of 5 or a few pennies. It's too much work and it seems like cashiers really struggle with change anyway.

[pauraque]

The worst is when they give the cashier a twenty, the cashier rings it in, and THEN they go "Wait I have chaaaaaaange". Seriously?

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

Bitches need to suck it up and get a piggy bank or some shit.

[pauraque]

Inorite?

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I don't mind it, but then again, a small rural pharmacy rarely has a queue and our bank has short, weird hours. Not that I should complain - neither of the nearest towns have a bank at all, and one of them is twice the size of my town!

[pauraque]

I don't really care if people do it when no one is there, but with a line behind them it's annoying! I work at a small but very busy store, there's only one register and there's normally a line.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

When there's people waiting for prescriptions, I always get "elderly person who needs to tell you about their bowel movements in great detail."

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

The only thing I hate worst than take-a-million-years-to-find-87-cents people are the ones who don't even bother to pull out their checkbooks until after everything has been rung up, and then they fumble for a pen, and want to know what the date is, and then, even after their transaction's complete, their order is bagged and they should be getting the hell out of my way, they CONTINUE TO STAND THERE AND BALANCE THE TRANSACTION IN THEIR CHECKBOOK REGISTER.

Coinstar is great fun. Even a quadruple handful of nuttin' but pennies can yield up surprising bounty.

[pauraque]

Ugh totally. The store I currently work at doesn't take checks, which is yay. At my last job they did. It's SUCH a pain.

And omg the people who don't get out of the way. Why do people do this? It's not just checks, people will stand there writing down debit card purchases in their check register, or just organizing their wallet/purse!