Spare change we can believe in

For years, I had been waiting for this opportunity.

When standing in line at the supermarket checkout, I tend to quickly dig out my spare change and count it, so I can react quickly when the time comes to cough up - can I pay with coins, or do I have to get out some paper cash?

Yesterday, at the back of a particularly long queue, I counted exactly €4.78 in change before returning it to my pocket. When it was finally my turn to pay, the cashier mumbled “That’ll be €4.78″ in that exceedingly unfriendly manner that must be a mandatory part of the training they receive here (”Lesson One: Why the customer is annoying scum”).

Making a big show of it, I jingled the change in my pocket, and finally pulled out a seemingly random handful of coins that I thrust at the cashier before wordlessly walking away.

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One Response to “Spare change we can believe in”

  1. RBR Productions on 2009-04-09 8:22 pm

    thats amazing, its really the kind of stuff you want on video so you can show your friends. that’s a lot of change btw as well.

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