That's NOT what you said!

[Anakah]

This old man comes up and his total is one hundred and twenty dollars.

SC: I want a hundred twenty.

ME; (I always repeat back what they want because they usually change it or just in case I hear them wrong--besides the fact that I totally didn't understand him!) A hundred dollar bill and a twenty?

SC: NO! I said, I wanted ONE twenty and the rest tens!

I never even heard him mention tens...

SC: I want all the old tens, not the RED ones.

Last time I checked there was no such thing as red tens. OH,wait, they're orange!

Me: Okay.

I had to open several straps of tens (they're a thousand each) and I had to literally search though all of them to find any non "Red" tens! I was so annoyed.

ME: Sir, the orange tens also work in the machines.

SC: Well, I don't like them. And you will give me what I want.

It is damn near impossible to find the non colored tens-- or atleast a lot of them at one time. And their condition? Sucky. I dug out the grossest ones too.

He was sighing and being really obnoxious.

I put a the twenty over the ten pile and it totally separated from the pile I was going to give him.

SC: You better watch that twenty, don't want it to disappear in your pile of tens!

ME: They won't. (I kind of growled then thought of guest service) thank you though.

Asshole. I think it was more of the tone he was using with me also.

I counted out the tens and then he shoves the goddamn twenty at me and asks for more tens!!! Damnit, why didn't he just tell me when I was doing the other ones!? I think he did it to be an asshole.

Later my CW told my boss and boss woman said not to do that again. That I shouldn't have to search through thousands of tens for him and just give him what I have open. I didn't know I could do that, next time I will.

He did tip me a dollar but I was too angry to even say thanks. I think he did it to amuse himself.

[RootedPhoenix]

*eyetwitch* I...do..not ..get ..why..people....aaaaggrrrggargle....

*hands Anakah herb tea and a chocolate bar*

[Dave1982]

SC: I want all the old tens, not the RED ones. don't like them. And you will give me what I want.

"No, I will give you your money. A $10 is a $10. Here you go. If you don't like the design of $10, that's too bad, because all I have are new ones. Write your congressman."

And $120 is hardly high-rolling. I'd say it's time for this guy to be told to hit the road.

[SG15Z]

I would tell him if he doesn't want any "red" tens to take it up with the Treasury Department. A ten is a ten. Lemme guess he doesn't lime "blue" fives either.

[Sliceanddice]

purple they arent blue they are purple!

[SG15Z]

purple they arent blue they are purple!

Tell that to the SC.

Though I do get a lot of people that don't want the new fives because our lottery scratch off machine won't accept the new fives. It gets really annoying.

[Anakah]

The funny thing is, they do call them blue or the ones with the big five's on the back, like the color wasn't the distinguishing point. I don't mind looking for non-purple fives because some of those really don't work in the machines but all the tens do. They have been out for quite sometime and ALL of the machines have been programed for them.

[fireheart]

Wait the US has coloured notes?

*searches on Wikipedia*

ah. Gotcha. Sorry, but growing up hearing about the green notes....
Australia's always had coloured notes. $5 are purple, $10 are blue, $20 are red/orange, $50 are yellow, $100 are green.

[pacman]

Wow. I wouldn't have done that to him.

Euros are coloured too. €5 is grey, €10 red, €20 blue, €100 green, €200 yellow and €500 purple. And they are different sizes too so that it's easier for blind people to recognise them.

[Dreamstalker]

Australia's always had coloured notes. $5 are purple, $10 are blue, $20 are red/orange, $50 are yellow, $100 are green.

A friend gave me a left-over fiver from her recent trip to Aus. It's pretty.

Euros are coloured too. €5 is grey, €10 red, €20 blue, €100 green, €200 yellow and €500 purple.

You forgot 50 = orange. The sizes are useful too as if I have notes stuffed in a pocket I don't need to haul them all out.

I maintain my position that the rest of the world has prettier money than we do. The newest efforts aren't helping.

[XCashier]

ME: Sir, the orange tens also work in the machines.

SC: Well, I don't like them. And you will give me what I want.

"How about I give you what you need instead?"

Sheesh. Can't stand jerks who grumble about our new currency, complaining that it looks like Monopoly money (funny, I don't see any trains on the notes!) or that they can't keep up with it.

Personally, I like the new colorful money. And frankly, I'm surprised that they didn't do size differences as well as color differences. But then again, considering how the American public is stubbornly reluctant to accept too many changes in their currency, maybe it's just as well.

[Red_Dazes]

^_^ I like the new currency. It's pretty and I don't accidentally try and give people $10 instead of $1 any more... So it's nice cause it makes me feel less like a dum-dum from time to time.

My friends and I had a discussion about the new money when they started doing it. We came to the conclusion that the U.S.A is like a little kid who want's to be like all the big kids. They all have pretty money... shouldn't we?

[Dreamstalker]

The new designs are OK (and I get where they were coming from with the anticounterfeiting angle), but still a bit blah. As a friend (can't remember who) said: "Other countries get cool buildings, animals and literary figures in fun colors. We get old dead guys in mud."

[Ghel]

We get old dead guys in mud."

At least they re-did the presidents' portraits. On the old money, they all looked like they were scowling. Now most of them almost look like they're smiling.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Hey, if anyone doesn't like the new US money, I'll be glad to dispose of it for them.