I'm so special. I have a large bill.

[Mildew]

Oh man. This reminds me of this douche I had to deal with at Claire's. He was the FIRST customer of the day. His daughter picks out like eight bucks worth of stuff. He goes to pay for it, and hands me this $100. Now, it's a Saturday, I'll be the only keyholder in the store, so I cannot leave. The change I got, has to last me til Monday. So I do what I normally do in this situation, I politely apologize, but say I do not have the change for a hundred. I then kindly tell him the St. Louis Bread Co. next door does, as I get change from them often on weekends. Most folks will go grab a couple drinks or head to the bank downstairs and have no issue with it.

But of course, I wouldn't have called him a douche if he was nice like everyone else.

"I don't believe you don't have the change. Just take the bill. I need it broken so I can give her her allowance."

"Sir, you are my FIRST customer of the day. If you remember me unlocking the gate as you and your daughter walked up. I won't be able to make it to the bank today, and obviously the bank will be closed tomorrow. I apologize for the inconvinience, but really, I cannot break it."

"I don't want anything from the Bread Company. Just take it and give me my change."

"Sir, they are the ONLY store in the mall that's been open longer than ten minutes. They're the only ones besides the bank that can change that. If you are a Bank Name customer..."

"NEVERMIND if you just want to be stubborn!" he yells, then leaves. The daughter is whining behind him. Half hour later, he comes back. She's holding a St. Louis Bread Co. soda cup, and he has a smaller bill to pay with. Wow, was that so hard?

I work at the mall, so it shouldn't be too hard to find something to break a $100.
There's a Starbucks right outside the mall too, which is easier to access (it has its own parking lot) so if you wanted to just get a coffee, you wouldn't bother with mall parking and walk through the mall just to go to our Starbucks.
Yet for some reason people don't want to go to another store to break their large bills.
Why'd you come to the mall then?!

[batmoody]

Whenever I get someone who gives me a $100 bill, and I don't have any $20's to break it, they get all $5's back in change. Sometimes they give an attitude, but hey, its all I've got!

[Retail Associate]

When I worked in the Garden Center I started out everyday with $25.00 in my cash drawer. Without fail, the first customer of the day would want to buy a $5.00-$10.00 item with a $50.00 or $100.00 bill. They'd always get p****d when I'd tell them I couldn't accept it.

[South Texan]

When I worked in fast food hell, I always got a sadistic kick out of giving change for a $100 bill used to pay a $3.75 purchase in ninety-six $1's and a quarter. Of course, this would be after I had dropped the $100 bill into the special drop box safe we had for such large amounts and for which only the main manager (who showed up twice a day to count tills) had the key. We usually had a large number of people who paid in $1's due to our location, so there was never a shortage of that denomination.

When the idiot with the $100 would get mad at all the $1's in change and demand larger bills, I would tell him that there were no large bills kept in my till. Half the time, these guys suddenly would "find" a $5 in their wallet and demand that I take ninety-five of the $1's and the $5 and give them back the $100. I would give a big grin and inform him that the $100 now was secured in the drop box safe and I could not get it out until six hours from then. That usually got the guy really mad and caused him to go away fuming, but as I had no intention of working at that place for more than a few months AND because it was his own stupidity for paying with such a large bill when he had a smaller, I really did not care.

[blaubent]

My boss makes us accept hundred dollar bills no matter what the cost of the purchase is. It is so sad when someone hands me a hundred dollar bill for a twenty five cent paper. *Which has honestly happened more times than I would like to admit*

As for customers who are so full of themselves, I have a regular customer who absolutely grates my nerves. He bought a new car. Don't know what kind. All I know is that it is red. He double parks so no one touches his car. When he is shopping, every two minutes he races to the parking lot to check on his car. One day, he wasted a roll of film on his car. He brought the pictures up to the main register. He showed me every single one of them saying, "Ain't that car beautiful?" Then he found a picture of his lawn. "Ain't that lawn beautiful?"

At the end, I looked at him square in the eye and said, "Sir, I am really happy for you. But to be quite honest, I have no interest in cars. A car is just a car. As long as it works, that is all that counts to me."

He talked to my coworkers about getting hair implants for him and breast implants for his wife. I don't know if he has too much money or is just really desperate to prove that he is worthy.

[Rapscallion]

We usually had a large number of people who paid in $1's due to our location,

Next to a strip club?

Just curious.

Rapscallion

[Mark Healey]

Listen, I work a minimum wage job part time, but even I could probably scrounge up a hundred dollars, go to the bank and exchange it for a hundred dollar bill. I don't know why these people think it makes them so impressive. And when does anyone really need a hundred dollar bill these days? Use a check card.

I do. When I'm scouting for books I never know when I will hit that great find in a thrift store or garage sale. Even at used wholesale a a couple of boxes of books can reach U$100 quite easily. Once every couple of years I'll have the chance to score a dozen of so boxes at some place that doesn't take checks or cards. This is why I rarely have less than U$500 on me.

I also like to keep my wad as physicaly small as possible which means I spend the change and small bills first. On unusually heavy spending days I eventually get down to the 100's.

The only thing I use my checking account for is paying bills. I don't like marketers knowing everyting I buy.

[AFpheonix]

He talked to my coworkers about getting hair implants for him and breast implants for his wife. I don't know if he has too much money or is just really desperate to prove that he is worthy.

I'm guessing that a certain appendage of his is about {_____________} long.

[Seanette]

I'm guessing that a certain appendage of his is about {_____________} long.

I'm betting this is the guy mentioned a while back with a measurement that had a minus sign.

[Becks]

Yeah, sure, it was probably from his grandma's birthday card

I wish MY grandma sent me $100 for my birthday.

She barely even sends me a Christmas card anymore...and when she does, I can count on getting it in time for Valentine's Day.

[TennesseePieman]

He talked to my coworkers about getting hair implants for him and breast implants for his wife.

As long as it isn't the other way around.

[counterjockey]

I don't know if he has too much money or is just really desperate to prove that he is worthy.

Yes. He has too much money and he is just really desperate to prove that he is worthy.

What keeps him awake at night, though, is that he's really desperate to prove to himself that he's worthy. Doesn't sound like that's gone well for him...

[csdrone]

FWIW banks will almost always change a hundred for twenties for anyone. Unless it is a counterfeit bill.... But SC's cannot walk that far or wait that long (a short walk and a shorter wait).

[HYHYBT]

This topic's come up so many times... I know quite well how annoying 100's are when you don't have much in the drawer, but it sounds like some here hate breaking them even when they have plenty of 20's. As long as you can make the change easily, what difference does it make if they want to buy their gum with a 100?

(And I'll apologize in advance if I misread)

[MissVendetta]

When the idiot with the $100 would get mad at all the $1's in change and demand larger bills, I would tell him that there were no large bills kept in my till. Half the time, these guys suddenly would "find" a $5 in their wallet and demand that I take ninety-five of the $1's and the $5 and give them back the $100. I would give a big grin and inform him that the $100 now was secured in the drop box safe and I could not get it out until six hours from then. That usually got the guy really mad and caused him to go away fuming, but as I had no intention of working at that place for more than a few months AND because it was his own stupidity for paying with such a large bill when he had a smaller, I really did not care.

Ha ha, South Texan, you rock! Did people ever demand "their" $ 100 bill back from the drop box? I had that quite often, when I worked in the till. I wasn't allowed to open the till without purchase and sometimes some idiot decided after getting his change (and after I've closed the till) that he needed to change money.
SC:"Look, I have this bill here, and these coins here. I just paid with a fiver, so if you could take these coins and this magic bean and give me my fiver back, so I would get rid of this small change, blah blah blah...
me. So sorry, but I'm not allowed to open the till without purchase.
SC:Whatwhatwhat? You have my fiver in there! So I'm not allowed to get it back?I just gave you that! *randombitchingandmoaning*
What on earth makes these people think the money is still theirs? Obviously, they haven't fully understood the idea of commerce.