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  • #1

    You count different!

    Seriously. I got bitched at because of how I counted.

    This old lady came up and had a ticket of like 200 or something. She wanted fifty in fives and the rest twenties. Riiight. So I gathered one hundred and forty in twenties and sixty in fives.

    I count it out to her and the look on her face looked like she smelled something horrifying, very sour looking.

    SC: I don't like how you counted my fives!

    Me: uhh, how do you count them?

    SC: Five, ten, fifteen twenty...

    Me: That's exactly how I did it.

    SC: NO it wasn't!

    Me: Yes, ma'am it was.

    SC: Well everybody does it different!

    I was thinking: and you're proving my point how?

    Me: ....Well you have a grrreat day!

    How many ways is there? It's not like I could've counted out any different... It's not easy counting different denominations out loud to someone. They think its cake. It's not.

    I usually have more patience but I just wasn't in the mood. Bottom line I was still right though!
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    That's the only way I know to count fives if you want to total them up to prove you have the right amount. You could always count them one, two, three, etc, but then she'd probably have argued that you didn't have the correct number of five dollar bills.

    She was just looking for an argument.
    When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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    • #3
      Correct me if I'm wrong, but at a casino, do you not have to (a) count the money in a certain way, as specified by the casino, and (b) have your hands placed in a way that means the whole process is visible on camera the whole time? If that's right, I would have thought that the casino was just about the best place to go, if she's so worried about her money being counted 'properly'.
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      • #4
        She just wanted to complain and couldn't think of anything, so she just complained about something totally daft, making herself look really stupid in the process. I'd say that's a result :P

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        • #5
          When I worked at a bank, it was better to count out the number of bills it would take to reach the denomination the customer wanted (meaning, 10 five dollar bills = $50). However, there js no wrong way to do it. At the end of the day its your drawer that has to balance.

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          • #6
            Yeah....she just wanted to complain about something.
            "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." - Ellen DeGeneres

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            • #7
              I don't care how you count it as long as it's right!
              "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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              • #8
                Quoth Food Lady View Post
                I don't care how you count it as long as it's right!
                I second that!
                "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is." - Ellen DeGeneres

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                • #9
                  Quoth shanarocks View Post
                  Yeah....she just wanted to complain about something.
                  Bitching about being hanged with a new rope as my dad would say.
                  I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my keister!

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                  -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Evannah View Post
                    She just wanted to complain and couldn't think of anything, so she just complained about something totally daft, making herself look really stupid in the process. I'd say that's a result :P
                    To be fair people don't know that's what they're doing. If someone's irritable the mind just gloms onto anything it can to be irritable about. Or at least that's how it works when Aunt Flo is due to visit for me. If I stop and think I can tell I'm being ridiculous, but I do manage to restrain myself in public, if not at home (I'm sorry hubby!)
                    "I try to be curious about everything, even things that don't interest me." -Alex Trebek

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                    • #11
                      Quoth taxguykarl View Post
                      Bitching about being hanged with a new rope as my dad would say.
                      I love that saying! I'd never heard it before. Consider it purloined!
                      There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth taxguykarl View Post
                        Bitching about being hanged with a new rope as my dad would say.
                        My dad said it too!
                        I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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