My minor SC booboo.

[Lingering Grin]

Do I went to the convenience store to get some beer for me and my buddy. Just a couple siz packs.

Get up to the counter, and the total is like $13 and change.... problem is, I thought I had a $20 bill. I didn't.


I got a $5 bill, 5 singles.... and a couple hundreds.


I ask the guy if he can break one, but unfortunately, they don't don't take em. :(

He was actually pretty cool about the whole thing and asked me how much I had (he was gonna cut me a break if I was close to the total, but I only had the $10. Not close enough) :(

I ended up having to ditch one of my the six packs. I was nice enough to leave behind the one that I wanted and bought the one that my friends likes (I like dark beers, he doesn't). Which if fine, because I remembered that my sister had a bottle of Baileys left over from my birthday (which I also bought :p (my friend is actually my sister's fiance, they just got engaged as of yesterday :D). So I just did a couple shots of that. Worked out well. ( I forgot how good Bailey's was by itself... yummy...)

I just kinda felt like a jackass for only have large bills at a convenience store, at 12:30am. My Bad. :headdesk:

[crazylegs]

Shit does sometimes happen but by the very fact that the chap was cool about it shows you were also good in your reaction. Its not the fact you were short but how you handle it that counts.

[JoitheArtist]

In my experience, even great customers sometimes goof up. I never minded that, especially not when it was a simple mistake and they were suitably embarassed by it. :)
Now, if you had demanded to take that extra six-pack and pay for it later, that would have been a different matter....

[thehippie777]

As long as you don't go into some rage blaming the employee for your not having a $20...all is well I think in not-so-sucky-land

[wierd]

Atleast you didn't try and argue that it was illegal not to accept as it is legal currency.

[Samaliel]

In my country, even though some shops will post signs that they won't take large bills (500 euros, most of the time, but some times 200 euros as well), it is illegal for them to do so if there is enough money in the till for them to give the change back. Never heard of any problems about that, though.

It reminds me of one time where I paid something like 4 and some change euros with a 50 bill. I didn't have anything else, I had just withdrawn it from the ATM, which didn't have anything else left. The clerk was totally okay with it, and joked about it : "You don't happen to have any larger bill, do you ?". I wasn't going to complain to the guy willing to sell me Ice Tea at almost 1am.

[Raieth]

You asked if he could take it. Not DEMAND that he take it. There is a huge difference.

No SC behaviour here, move along please. :)