All this fuss over three cents!

[siskaren]

I truly pity the daughter, having to live with a screeching harpy for a mother, and hope she learns from the experience and becomes a better person than her mother.

It sounds like she already is since you said that she looked embarrassed by her mother's antics.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Them: "I don't mean to be rude--"
J2K: "--then you probably shouldn't finish that sentence."

Saying that you "don't mean to be" something does not absolve you of it.

[MoonCat]

I once had a customer throw a royal bitchfit about how I gave her tens instead of twenties in change. She screamed that she was going to alert the media that she couldn't get twenties from us.

THIS is the kind of thing that makes reporters cringe when the phone rings.

[downforit2008]

Maybe that woman could use that three cents left and buy herself some COMMON SENSE. If it's on sale, she'll get a good deal!

[Lovecats]

I know when I worked at Kohls (it's been close to7 yrs now) we automatically gave cash back if the amount was $3 or under if I remember right. Where I work now we don't give cash back.