Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Change Me
Why do people give change as bills first, then coins? If you get the coins in your hand you can hold on to them securely while you take the bills in your fingers. If the coins are on top, you're forced to try to hold the whole thing flat until you can get the other hand free to rescue the coins and airlift them away to safety. This is like the New Orleans disaster plan enacted out in the world of commerce, a billion times a day... we must be able to do something!
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Of course, as you very well know, this is a case of the cashier putting their needs and desires ahead of the customer.
Since it's easier for them to count out the bills first, they hand them to you first. Otherwise they have to find something to do with the bills while they count the change into your hand.
As a good Canadian, I have a solution - have the mints gradually make everything coins, and then we can all just dump a pile all into the other person's hand at once! Loonies, Toonies, Threezies, Forzies...
"airlift them away to safety". LOVE IT!!!
I say once you've recieved your change in the haphazard manner, fling it back in their face, fall to your knees, ripping your shirt in two chanting "My coins! My precious coins! Why do they deny you the safe comfort of my palm?! WHYYYYY?!!"
Ah yes... the durable solution. Plus, then we'll be ready for when a can of Coke is $20.
Ni, I've discovered (mainly through trial and error, but there were a couple of focus groups) that when I tear the shirt in two, it seems to cloud the issue. I haven't yet put my finger on why, but the initial findings are quite consistent.
Unfortunately.
I love it. I have the same complaint.
And as an American who did her time as an exile in the Great North, that bit on "threezies, fourzies" just cracked me up.
Thank you one and all.
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