I’ve noticed a trend. A new “life’s little annoyance” that I’m taking a stand against. Perhaps it only happens in Chesterbrook where I work. But quarters seem to be worth more than $0.25. Just today I went to Genardis to get Jello (which sucks btw) and i paid the total was 13.22. But Genardis uses a change dispenser. I’m merely human, but when I used to operate a cash register, this scenario would dictate I return 3 pennies and 3 quarters. 3 is a nice number. It’s the holy trinity, it’s how many balls i have. It’s nice. but instead this vile contraption returned 2 quarters 3 pennies, 2 dimes and a nickel.
Well I had enough. I demanded that the cashier exchange those dimes and a nickel for a quarter. And the woman took issue. “I can’t open the drawer again.”
I said, “I’ll wait”
she said, “It’s the right amount? right”
I said, “in numbers, yes, in number of coins no. I’m sorry, but I don’t like extra change”
she gave.
It’s not just our mechanized overlords either. I went to wendy’s last week and the woman behind the counter manually gave me this 2 dimes and nickel breakdown of the 3rd quarter.
THese aren’t new businesses they’ve been there a while. Can’t they anticipate the quarter demand?
Well, I’m not taking dimes anymore!
October 18th, 2005 at 8:37 pm
……. if i could figure out how to log in again, i would type up a new topic………