The Velvet Bag

[SilverOrb]

Oooo forgot about this quickie...

Had a lady come through my line with her kid one day, and pay for her order (AROUND 60 dollars worth) with LOOSE change.

Which she pulled out of a small velvet bag.

Then proceeded to count in front of me.

Granted it was mostly quarters, but STILL!!!

(Did I mention it was LOOSE?!)

Arrrrrgggggggg

[Evil Queen]

Sounds like another poster here who paid off his ex-stepson with coinage like that. Granted they where dollar coins, and only thirty of them, but still.

I bet that made counting your till down at the end of your shift a real (heavy) pain.

[Bank Lady]

I once paid for my fast food with a roll of quarters. I had an entire roll left over from doing laundry and not much other cash with me. The girl at the register actually thanked me though. Apparently she was getting low on quarters.

[RetailWorkhorse]

I've had a lady that came in once a month that paid me in change like that. I loved her to pieces. Always had to split up the change at the end of the day, though, and that took some time.

[Andara Bledin]

Had a lady come through my line with her kid one day, and pay for her order (AROUND 60 dollars worth) with LOOSE change.

Yeah. That's when you tell her your sorry (you can pretend, right?), but she's going to have to bring back something reasonable.

Unless you work for the government, there is no requirement you take that much change from anyone. If they want to pay, then they can get themselves to a bank or a coinstar and cash up to some folding money.

^-.-^

[Triscuitty]

Yeah. That's when you tell her your sorry (you can pretend, right?), but she's going to have to bring back something reasonable.

Unless you work for the government, there is no requirement you take that much change from anyone. If they want to pay, then they can get themselves to a bank or a coinstar and cash up to some folding money.

^-.-^

I agree. I've had people bring up big plastic bags or containers full of change, and I'd just tell them "Sorry, if it's not rolled up, I can't take that much loose change." If they made a stink, I'd simply open my drawer and show them the tiny little change compartments and ask "Where exactly do you expect me to put all that?" Honestly, there's no reason to expect a STORE to provide BANK services.

[Aethian]

Many banks won't take that much loose change either.

[iviles]

Which she pulled out of a small velvet bag.

:

Hehehe you mean a crown royal bag

[StevieJD]

When I was about 12-13 the neighbor lady ran the concession stand as a fund raiser at a big 2 day little league tournament.

On Monday I was appointed by my mom to assist the neighbor lady haul the loot to the bank.

It was a little league tournament. LOTS of kids.

$800+ was taken to the bank. $600+ of that was in change.

The bank gave us a special teller just to count the change. What a major pain. I think it took an whole hour to haul the loot into the bank and for the teller to verify the count. I remember we had to unwrap the change and load it into special trays. I did the Nickles. I had well over $100 in just Nickles.


I confess, I was a SC, but I was 12 and didn't know better.

[mattm04]

We had one lady try to pay the FEM (who was ringing because it was really busy due to the potential of a snow storm) pennies and nickels for a $125-130 order. The FEM decided to accept it but take her sweet time to count it twice, espically since the SC was hurried. We could have used the scale, but this was more fun.

[Sliceanddice]

my bank has a coin machine so you can deposit large ammounts of change, randomness

[trunks2k]

When I was a cashier, we had a Coinstar machine in the store. I happened to be on a register right near it, when these two guys come in with a cart with buckets full of change. They spent well over an hour dumping change into the machine. Their total coinage was a couple thousand dollars. They brought the slip up the front desk and the person there just stared at them - they had to have someone come and open up the safe since there was no way they could just give out $2k+.

I'm shocked the machine even held that much coinage. But I guess it had gotten emptied that morning.

[Dreamstalker]

Great googly moogly, and I thought I was a change hoarder!

[Emrld]

It is nice when the banks have a coinstar machine. Typically if you are a memeber of that bank it will allow you to use the machine and not pay a fee.
The problem with the grocery store - they take part of that money for the service.

I can understand at $40 or over not being able to take change.

Just because someone is paying in coins . . .that doesn't mean they are expecting you to be a bank for them. They are paying in cash money . . .coins have the vaule imprinted on them just like paper money.

[Racket_Man]

try having someone pay for a delivery order with like $25 in change (no not in just quarters but mostly dimes nickles and pennies). and they stiff ya