Thursday 29 March 2012
Quote of the Day!
"I read an article that said that you can lose weight by skipping meals and only eating vitamin D tablets when you're hungry. Is that true?"
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Thursday 1 March 2012
"I Have Some Change I'd Like To Get Rid Of"
At some point in time, everyone's wallet, pockets, or purse bottoms become full of random change. It can become a rather burdensome load to carry, and it's understandable that people would try to get rid of some change while making small purchases. Sometimes, though, it's just a burden on the cashier.
"That will be $7.43, please."
"Oh, I have some change I would like to get rid of." This is often followed by the client taking change out of pockets, wallets, and anywhere else where change may have deposited itself. Small change, big change, it doesn't matter. It's surprising to see how much change one person can actually carry. The counter is covered by a sea of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, and the client is determined to use them all to pay for the purchase.
"Okay, here's a quarter, and here's a dime...so that's 35 cents... How much did you say the total was?"
Where I work, this usually is not a problem, as it is usually quiet enough in the store to help the client count out their change without creating too much anger. However, frequently enough, people try to pay entirely in small change at the absolute worst times- lunch breaks.
Imagine this. You have half an hour for a lunch break- that includes the time it requires to purchase your lunch and to eat it. You wander in to a pharmacy to buy a pack of gum, and the person in front of you is counting. They appear to have brought in an entire piggy bank, and are now counting out individual pennies on an 8-dollar purchase. You have five minutes left to your break, and you may be fired if you're not sitting in your desk chair before then.
So you huff. And moan. And try to convince the cashier to let you pay ahead of the person who has more change in their wallet than you've seen in your entire life. But the cashier can't let you go through. After all, the other person has already been rung up, even if they've only managed to count out 57 pennies in the three minutes you've been waiting in line.
As frustrating as it is for clients, it's just as frustrating for the cashier. Angry people don't just huff and puff and act like a small child who has to wait a few minutes before playing with their toys- they get vocal. And there's really only one person they can get vocal with, as it's just plain rude to harass the client who has only managed to count out 83 cents in four minutes.
It has happened before that a client will try to pay with the change they rolled up at home. Rolls of pennies are quite heavy, but it's quite fascinating when someone starts plonking roll after roll of pennies on the counter, and then to realize that this client must have planned to come by the pharmacy for the specific purpose of unloading their change.
Though debit and credit cards have done much in the way of eliminating the amount of change many have in their pockets at any given moment, it will never stop people from paying in change. And unfortunately for everyone else, it's just something that must be endured.
"That will be $7.43, please."
"Oh, I have some change I would like to get rid of." This is often followed by the client taking change out of pockets, wallets, and anywhere else where change may have deposited itself. Small change, big change, it doesn't matter. It's surprising to see how much change one person can actually carry. The counter is covered by a sea of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters, and the client is determined to use them all to pay for the purchase.
"Okay, here's a quarter, and here's a dime...so that's 35 cents... How much did you say the total was?"
Where I work, this usually is not a problem, as it is usually quiet enough in the store to help the client count out their change without creating too much anger. However, frequently enough, people try to pay entirely in small change at the absolute worst times- lunch breaks.
Imagine this. You have half an hour for a lunch break- that includes the time it requires to purchase your lunch and to eat it. You wander in to a pharmacy to buy a pack of gum, and the person in front of you is counting. They appear to have brought in an entire piggy bank, and are now counting out individual pennies on an 8-dollar purchase. You have five minutes left to your break, and you may be fired if you're not sitting in your desk chair before then.
So you huff. And moan. And try to convince the cashier to let you pay ahead of the person who has more change in their wallet than you've seen in your entire life. But the cashier can't let you go through. After all, the other person has already been rung up, even if they've only managed to count out 57 pennies in the three minutes you've been waiting in line.
As frustrating as it is for clients, it's just as frustrating for the cashier. Angry people don't just huff and puff and act like a small child who has to wait a few minutes before playing with their toys- they get vocal. And there's really only one person they can get vocal with, as it's just plain rude to harass the client who has only managed to count out 83 cents in four minutes.
It has happened before that a client will try to pay with the change they rolled up at home. Rolls of pennies are quite heavy, but it's quite fascinating when someone starts plonking roll after roll of pennies on the counter, and then to realize that this client must have planned to come by the pharmacy for the specific purpose of unloading their change.
Though debit and credit cards have done much in the way of eliminating the amount of change many have in their pockets at any given moment, it will never stop people from paying in change. And unfortunately for everyone else, it's just something that must be endured.
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