Underblog’s Minor Annoyances: No 127 When cashiers put coins on top of the notes.
Well, the title is pretty self explanatory really, but picture if you will: You have just bought something and are awaiting change. You are holding your wallet/purse in your left hand. A cashier puts a five pound note into the palm of your right hand, followed by several coins placed on top of the note. Now, you have to attempt to undo the coin compartment of your chosen money-holding device, whilst preventing any of the coins slipping from their precarious position atop the fiver. Ok, not the greatest dilemma ever to face humankind, but mildly irritating all the same.
March 31st, 2004 at 17:48
This is one of my pet hates too! It took me a long time to work out why this didn’t used to be a problem until I realised that back in the “olden” days the till didn’t tell the cashier how much change to give so they would count it out in your hand to prove they’d got it right. As they counted up from the amount charged to the amount tendered the notes always came last. I can remember doing this myself when I worked in BHS on Saturdays back in 1978.