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Valued Member
United States
163 Posts |
With zero silver to show for my efforts I go over from the last bank to a nearby restaurant and plop down a machine roll of dimes and 4 dollars worth of halves. The late teen-20s cashier gets a disgusted look on her face and stares at the coins for about 10-15 seconds.
'You're paying with this?'
'yeah...its money'
'I know what it is but a roll?'
Okay, I thought she'd be upset with the halves.
She gives me 4 dollars and change back on the 8ish dollar tab. I do a double take. What did she think I put down extra half dollars simply to impress her? For a split second I thought about simply walking away.
'Excuse me I think you gave me too much change'
'No I didn't you gave me 14 dollars look'
'Umm no look at this it says half dollar see?'
She finally admits her mistake and complains to her manager about how confusing all the weird stuff people come in with is. Her manager gently scolds her for a similar mistake earlier. I back off and sit down to eat. No silver but at least the food is pretty good.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1064 Posts |
Pay with a good ol' American credit card next time, stop ruining the youth of our country with your strange ways...  |
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Valued Member
United States
262 Posts |
I gave my little girl today a dollar bill and a 1972 kennedy to pay for a pack of gum...the cashier looks at the coin like he didn't know what it was.....then he got confused on what change to give back....
boy have times changed.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3345 Posts |
Yeah well they may be confused but us'ns know what stuff is and what it's worth.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4333 Posts |
That's a funny story. I've been paying with halves randomnly for over three years, and have never once heard a negative comment.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3276 Posts |
even if you don't know what it is, it says how much the coin is worth on the front. shouldn't be that hard to read. lol.
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Valued Member
 United States
163 Posts |
That's a funny story. I've been paying with halves randomnly for over three years, and have never once heard a negative comment.
I've had a gas station attendant outright refuse to take them and an excessively amazed McDonalds cashier but yeah its usually smooth sailing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2651 Posts |
You need to be sweet to the tellers...and soon they will be handing you silver....well at least my tellers do....They look through loose half dollars for me and give me the silver...they are not pretty but they are silver!
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Rest in Peace
United States
3039 Posts |
They give you silver? Amazing. I thought all tellers kept it for themselves or family members.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
It is becoming more and more common for people not to want all the so called odd, strange, wierd coins around. More and more counterfeits are popping up since the counterfeiters well know people just don't know anymore what is real. A never ending array of different Quarters, silly never ending baby sized dollars, $2 bills, strange backs on pennies from 2009 to now, what can you expect. And then too there are those really large coins that say Half Dollars with a person on them that kids just never heard of before. Just how much do you expect our younger generation to put up with? Remember they have to spend so much time knowing all about computer games, how to text on their camera phones, etc.  Edited by just carl
07/11/2011 08:37 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
I had a grocery store clerk try to tell me the 10 halves I gave her were $50 instead of $5. Took a bit to tell her they were half dollars coins, not $5 coins.
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Valued Member
United States
397 Posts |
This makes me want to go to mcdonalds today and pay with $2s and .50s
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Valued Member
United States
68 Posts |
So you gave her $5.00 (50 dimes) and $4.00 (8 halves) and she counts it as $14.00 instead of $13.00 (she is counting the halves as dollars) Sigh...now we know why their registers have pictures instead of numbers.
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Valued Member
United States
163 Posts |
So you gave her $5.00 (50 dimes) and $4.00 (8 halves) and she counts it as $14.00 instead of $13.00 (she is counting the halves as dollars) Sigh...now we know why their registers have pictures instead of numbers.
Yup I'm pretty sure it was 13 dollars since I got 4 dollars and change back on the 8 dollar tab. So I probably misremembered the 14 bucks
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Pillar of the Community
United States
619 Posts |
Some tellers know their stuff. I was hunting for halves and one even asked the others if they had Ikes. Most of them probably don't know what an Ike is...
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Valued Member
Australia
278 Posts |
I think I want some of these coins you are talking about.
I dont really know what they are not being from the USofA
But I do like your coins alot!
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Posted 07/09/2011 8:31 pm
