Clerk Reactions To Odd Coins?

To be fair, a lot of cashiers are younger folks that probably don't use coins let alone cash. That doesn't change the fact they most of them are stupid and that our schools are failing us. Want to have fun? Let's say your total is $4.27 and you give them a $5, this is the fun part, AFTER they ring the $5 tell them, "Oh wait! I have 27 cents." You can see the wheels in their head spinning and it might even smell like something is burning while they try to figure it out. I've even had one whip out their cell phone and use the calculator.

I have spent a bunch of Presidential dollars at the gas station and not been questioned.

Here's a (more or less on-topic) story from when I was a cashier myself.

In the summer of 1980, when I was in my late teens, I worked nights at a gas station. This was during the time when gas was just getting to be over $1 a gallon, and most gas pumps were not yet equipped to handle this. The way this was addressed, for the time being, was that the pumps were set for half the price -- i.e., 51 cents a gallon when the price was $1.02 -- and the customer would pay twice the amount that the pump said. Needless to say, this caused a fair amount of confusion at times.

Anyway, one night a customer tried to pay with a 1928 $20 bill. I would have exchanged $20 of my own money to get this for myself afterwards, except that I didn't have $20 of my own money handy. So, not sure what else to do, I told the customer they should keep it and pay with another bill.

Of course, I now wish I had somehow managed to get the bill for myself. Oh well. I wonder whatever happened to it.

Enjoy your time on the Redneck Riviera, mrwiskers!

Really Want To Have Fun / When a Clerk tells you the amount /

Ask if They Accept Out of State Cash / You could tell them it's from Louisiana.

I have a sign saying I accept Out of State Cash / No Check's / It Really Confuse Young People

..."out - of - state cash" ... what's so funny here, JBuck? ... I have 3 Alabama silver dollars right here ... neighbor paid me to cut his grass (the quarter was extra/tip) ...

...I realize that they're a little worn, but, HEY!, the're silver!!

... Who's laughning now?...

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...That's funny

...BTW...Arkansas is a great, beautiful state full of very nice folks ... love visiting & staying there ... ...

I acquired 70 or so Ikes from the grocery store a while back and kept a couple (one was silver, the other an impaired Proof). Along with a bunch more circulation quality ones I had acquired over the last few years I spend a few each month at the local Farmer's Market. The vendors love them!

That's what happens when the government doesn't update its currency.