On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 9:21:10 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 10/22/2014 3:13 PM, dsi1 wrote:
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> > I typically will not use cash but this morning I paid for some coffee and bentos in cash because I happen to have a whole bunch with me and for some reason, thought it would be faster. It came out to $9.03. Unfortunately, I only had 2 pennies with me so he gave me 97 cents plus some bills. For some reason, the guy hands me the bills and then drops the 98 cents on the bills which immediately caused the coins to slide off the bills like water off a duck.
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> > That's a total rookie mistake but I look forward to seeing the guy get better day by day. Unfortunately the coffee, (Sam Choy's Volcano Blend) was watered down all to hell so it'll be a long time before I go there again. That's the 7-11 business for you: a lot of people go there in the morning to get coffee. They won't go back for weak coffee. I sure won't.
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> Most stores have a penny cup at the register. Take a penny/Give a
> penny. Handy in a situation like yours.

Oh yeah, that would have been just spiffy but alas there were none. Damn you 7-11!

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> I'm in favor of dropping pennies and rounding.

That makes two of us. Pennies are sooooo Micky Mouse. :-)