Euro-prat

[Lace Neil Singer]

{Note: I do not want this thread derailed by comments on Europe, Brexit etc. Go to Fratching for that, please! This thread is about a sucky customer.}

The SC comes up to the till, barks "Pump five!" at me and slams down a note. I pick it up and immediately notice that it is a twenty euro note.

Me: Sorry, but we don't take euros here.
SC: Britain is part of Europe! You have to accept it!
Me: No, we don't.
SC: Are you stupid or something? Britain is in Europe, so that means you can take euros!
Me: Actually, Britain opted out of the single currency.

At this point, one of our regulars decides to intervene.

Regular: Damn, it's like he's been hiding under his bed for the past year.
SC: What? What are you talking about?
Regular: Brexit? Ever hear of it?

Several other customers then began to berate the customer, probably cuz they were sick of standing in line while this idiot mouthed off. Faced with such opposition to his views, the SC silently paid with a credit card and left. Oh, and he forgot his euro note. XD Since he never returned to claim it, it ended up in the charity tin.

[Slave to the Phone]

Even an ignorant and very self absorbed American like me knows that England opted out of the Euro thing.

The choices I see is that your customer was crazy or did indeed live under a rock for the last year, or was even more self absorbed than I am and I find the third possibility to be highly questionable.

[Argabarga]

Euro Prat sounds like some new techno music straight outta Stuttgart.

[MoonCat]

He was probably one of the Oblivious. They're all around us.

[earl colby pottinger]

The press

Considering how much press and front page news it go here in Canada I can't imagine how someone can be British or European and not know about the break-up.

Even if the person was in some far off land and just arrived back in England, I can;t see that person now seeing the news over the internet.

The only other thing I could think of is that they just got out of prison, but I am pretty sure the news got even in there.

[Marmalady]

Even before Brexit - as LNS says, Britain was never part of the Eurozone, so why on earth this plum thought he could spend that in a petrol station is beyond me.

[sirwired]

Even before Brexit - as LNS says, Britain was never part of the Eurozone, so why on earth this plum thought he could spend that in a petrol station is beyond me.

Even as a yank, I was thinking the same thing... Brexit or no, that was never gonna work. I might as well argue that NAFTA means I can spend my USD anywhere I want in Canada or Mexico.

[Pixelated]

At least he got rid of that pesky Euro note ...

As others have said, Brexit was HUGE news even on this side of the Atlantic. What planet was this idiot from?

[Catwoman2965]

Even an ignorant and very self absorbed American like me knows that England opted out of the Euro thing.

What a moron. I went to London last fall. and while I was pretty sure they didn't use Euros, guess what, I CHECKED. Justto make sure I didn't make a fool out of myself.

[Rosco the Iroc]

He wants to get rid of any more € he can send to me. I can swap them.

[Weaselwise]

The UK has never used Euro's... we kept our Sterling Pounds and Pence when the Euro came in on 1 January 2002...

Per history of Euro, originally twelve (12) of the 15 EU countries (Germany, France, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Finland, Greece and Ireland) were members of the so-called Eurozone. Euro history tells us that these states were joined later by Slovenia (2007), Cyprus (2008), Malta (2008), and Slovakia (2009).

Some shops in ferry-port towns on the South-East coastline eg Dover, Folkestone and Harwich that I personally know about, will accept Euro notes, but they will give any change due back in Sterling notes/coins. The ferries over to France and Holland will accept both Sterling and Euro currency.

[Kazim]

Sweden has also been rather resistant to accepting the Euro, and we still get people that wants to pay with them

[Pixelated]

The UK has never used Euro's...
*snip*

That's what I thought. I was in the UK several years ago and was pretty sure I remembered NOT using Euros.

[Shyla]

20 Euros is a decent amount of money. Nice amount for charity.

[bainsidhe]

Typical SC behavior. If I argue long and loud enough, the store will be convinced I'm right.