Well I don't have a quarter

[Ree]

Don't these idiots know what happens to cashiers with short drawers?

They get cold legs?

Sorry...feeling silly.

[Boozy]

Apparently so am I, because that made me laugh out loud.

[persephone]

Buying groceries with cash? How quaint. Have these people never heard of a debit/credit card?

You may think it's "quaint" but I use cash for groceries, as do a number of people in this world and it's not a stupid move. I do not carry a credit or debit card, nor do I want to. We deal in cash pretty much exclusively. Makes it a LOT harder to overspend. People living on credit cards and spending more than they have are why our country is in the economic situation it is in.

However, I would NEVER ask a cashier to cover if I was a little short. I know exactly how much I have and I'm really good at judging exactly how much my groceries are going to cost, tax and all. I'm never more than about 50 cents off.

[LingualMonkey]

You may think it's "quaint" but I use cash for groceries, as do a number of people in this world and it's not a stupid move. I do not carry a credit or debit card, nor do I want to. We deal in cash pretty much exclusively. Makes it a LOT harder to overspend. People living on credit cards and spending more than they have are why our country is in the economic situation it is in.

This is exactly why we switched from a credit card to a debit card--since it comes out immediately, we can keep track of it immediately...and I have a thing where if I have cash in my pocket, I spend it.

[Chromatix]

I keep cash in my pocket for emergencies, which include the extremely few places which don't take the debit card.

I have also, at various points, lived without reference to any bank account - which I can tell you is not easy. But you get used to using cash after a while, and that includes £1 and £2 coins.

[Imogene]

They get cold legs?

Sorry...feeling silly.

Oh kay... no more Jeff Dunham and bourbon before surfing CS...
I read that in Peanut's voice.
"Jef-fuh-fuh! Dun HAM!"

[blas]

Dammit Ree.....you are the.....3rd person who owes me a new futon and laptop screen. I am patiently waiting, for now.

Persons #1 and #2, my patience is wearing thin. I also will be requiring a package of Depends for whenever I am on this site.

[Oberonsshadow]

Oh kay... no more Jeff Dunham and bourbon before surfing CS...
I read that in Peanut's voice.
"Jef-fuh-fuh! Dun HAM!"

OT: I have a cat named Peanut...

I have been trying to teach her to say "SaH-Tana-ANa"

So far I have been unsuccessful...

[bainsidhe]

THANK YOU for a well-timed post. I've also noticed this as an increasing trend. I understand money is tight nowadays, but I don't carry cash and I'm not about to make up the change from the drawer. I wouldn't do it for myself, why would I do it for a customer? That's stealing.

Granted, my customers are buying groceries, not just a candy bar. But if you don't have enough money, put something back. Please don't declare, "Well, I'm NOT going to ask my friend for another dollar!" then look at me expectantly. I'm NOT going to steal money from the drawer. And we're going to continue staring each other down, I assure you.

Sorry, this really hit a sore spot. I felt like a demonic cashier because this woman was clearly on hard times and I wouldn't budge on a quarter. So yeah, I was upset because I felt like an ass. Yet I wasn't about to take from the drawer and she wasn't about to bother her friend for change. Le sigh.

[candyshopgirl]

I did loan my friend joel money for a newspaper on tuesday though.But hes a good friend and hes an locally famous artist.He gives me tons of one of a kind paintings.So you know what the least I can do he to pay for his .50 cent newspaper.Also I never relized how famous he was until someone saw me talking to him and ran up afterwards and said OMG is that joel **********. Sorry I highjacked my own thread.

[Hon'ya-chan]

Just the other day, I had a guy with his kid, and as she was digging for that final penny, he remarked "Oh don't worry, she can take care of that penny." To which I replied; "Then someone is gonna have to give back their item for failing to render proper payment."

I waited for him to cough up the extra penny. The look on his face was priceless.

[mattm04]

I had a SC give me 25 cents for a 1.35 transaction and say "take care of the rest." When he refused to cough of the money I told him no. In typical SC fashion that was bad customer service.

[Snowbird]

Where on this green earth did these people come up with the mindset that this sort of thing is ok? I can see a penny or two if one is short and there's a jar for it, but even more than five cents is pushing that generosity, let alone whole dollars.

I had this happen once, a customer had a large, multiple item purchase and came up around 50 cents short. When she stared at me helplessly, it didn't even occur to me to offer to dip into the till or my own pocket to help her out, but I did offer to put something back for her so that she wouldn't have to be bothered with that. It must have worked, she didn't say a word about expecting me to make up the difference.

Can't afford=Can't buy. It's not that hard a concept*.

*except where entitlement stunts brain function.

[bainsidhe]

Where I see most people get in trouble is with sales tax. I can be forgiving of the ten-year-old short four cents because of tax. If I rummage around, I can find a couple pennies. But if you're an adult, put something back. A woman comes up with a wallet that costs just shy of five dollars. The total comes to something like $5.26 and she annouces she only has a five and can I take care of the difference? Err, no. The state charges YOU the tax, the store isn't going to pay it (said much more politely, BTW). "But I only have five dollars!". So I ask her if she'd like me to hold it at the register and she can come back later. Anyone want to guess if she came back? Sheesh, people are nervey.

[Dreamstalker]

Can't afford=Can't buy. It's not that hard a concept.

That's why I tend to prefer hard cash for in-person transactions (unless I know I don't have the cash, such as for haircuts, nice gifts and other large purchases).

Adults who can't do sales tax?! I admit a slip-up or two (mainly here in Santa Fe where the exact tax rate seems to vary by the part of town), but do I complain about it? Hell no, a few extra cents isn't going to kill me and I can get rid of the loose change I tend to accumulate.