What! It's A Dollar?

You could sue them for thousands of SBA's
LOL
False Improsonment!

It's not just Walmart; it's everywhere. You would think that common sense would dictate that, if a person is going to be working with money all day, that person would be trained in the coins and currency used in the country where they work. This is not happening.

We purchased groceries at Acme a couple years ago and I had a pocketful of Kennedy half dollars that were only worth face value. The bill came to some odd amount that ended in 53 cents. I took a Kennedy and Three Cents out of my pocket and handed them to the cashier with the bills. The young man looked at me and asked what the coin was. I told him and he tried to say that it wasn't US money. I had to show him the denomination and legends before he would believe me.

It is very sad that even the people who deal with our money for a living can't recognize our money.

I work a cash register at the store where I work. I know what all the money is that they give me and I never have to give it a second thought. In fact if they pay with halves or sacs, SBA's, or ikes I buy them from the till. It is terrible some cashiers have no clue. I have an ear for canadian currency. It's quite common in the border states. They have a certain jingle to them.

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Originally posted by biokemist6

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Originally posted by ageka

Somehow I am not amazed at all
I went dozens of times to St Louis
There is this plaza with a Japanese restaurant on the top floor of the largest building
I always bought expensive cigars in the cigarshop there and paid with traveller checks
One time they asked me for a picture ID and I showed my Belgian Pasport with on the outer cover written Kingdom of Belgium
and my pic in it and the visa stamp etc
It took some time to convince them it was not bought at a novelty shop

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Are you referring to Robata of Japan at Westport Plaza?

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Yes Robata 1996 was the last time I was over
I still have a row of porcelain ninja warriors sitting on the desk in my study room
You know the ones in which they served cocktails and then were allowed to take home with you
Those were the days I was put in the Ritz Carlton at Clayton and for the first time met with valet parking and life piano playing and those guys gathering in red robes with bison heads I think which I allways assumed only existed in the films of the Flintstones

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Originally posted by biokemist6

LOL what are the odds that someone from Belgium that I only know from this board has been to a restaurant in St. Louis that I have been to several times and enjoy very much

I hope you enjoyed your stays in the STL, just a midwest city with a small town feel

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Every time I was in St Louis I went to Robata
A lobster dinner with entree main course all the chefs acrobatics throwing onions to the ceiling and slicing them and an icecream all for 25 dollars when at the time it was like 75 dollars in Belgium
I was warned never to cross the bridge to the other side of St Louis which I did'nt
I also enjoyed Union Station small restaurant on the first floor with Alaska King Crab
I am an engineer so I only had to laugh when I saw the film of the construction of the arch gateway to the west where the last element did not fit and they had to use hydrolic jacks to get it
into place
But even in 1996 there were signs predicting changes acoming
I bought a dozen suits in virgin wool made to size at the NYSE
100 $ suite exchange all came from Korea
I worked for Monsanto at the time 64000 workforce when I started
Only 16000 or so when I got fired after they split of all chemicals under the name of Solutia

And people thought that Andy Griffith's Mayberry was a fictional town.

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Originally posted by Susanlynn9

...It's not just Walmart; it's everywhere...
It is very sad that even the people who deal with our money for a living can't recognize our money.

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I can understand that young people have never seen these coins, the coins are not distributed. They are as rare as a $2 bill. LOL, which also is not well distributed.

LOL willieboyd2 do you want to hear something funny about what you said. It was approximately 50 to 60 miles from where Andy Griffith Lives for real (now that is) where he got his start. and it is in Nc. And SUsann you are right I prefer small little town I am from one in North EAst PA. a liitle farm community.