Cop complained about receving dimes as change

[snugglegirl05]

This happened at the McDonalds I went to yesterday.

I was waiting to order my food when a cop in front of me ordered two cookies. He gave the cashier his money. She did not have any quarters to give him as change. She only had dimes to give him as change. He complained to her about that after she gave him his change. She then told him that she did not have any quarters left.

I made the comment to him that change is change no matter what it is.

[Deserted]

The only time I ever bring up my lack of change is if someone demands exact change... and since people tend to understand that cab drives, like waiters, live on our tips, it's extraordinarily rare. (Only happened to me twice that I can recall. I've been completely stiffed many more times.)

(That doesn't include the account where the passengers have a co-pay of $1.50 or $3.50, and we're not allowed to accept tips... I get one of those calls, I hit the gas station for some quarters.)

[mathnerd]

Ya, know, I might be annoyed at getting small change, and possibly even say something in a joking kind of tone, but shit happens. It's okay to be annoyed. It's not okay to take it out on the poor cashier who is in no way responsible for how much each coin is left in her drawer at any given moment.

[Sapphire Silk]

Twenty five cents is twenty five cents. It all spends. What's the big effin deal?

[Pixilated]

It's a huge effin' deal when you're Mr. or Ms Speshul Snowflake. Certainly doesn't help any when you're a Speshul Snowflake with a uniform and badge ...

[ADeMartino]

Ugh, THIS. People gripe about the dumbest things anymore. One of my customers lost her shit when I gave her two fives because I didn't have any tens in the drawer. This was the same woman who had, earlier that day (scarcely ten minutes into my shift), completely wiped out my till with the $100 bill she used to pay for her coffee and doughnut.

What the f*ck IS it with people?

[taxguykarl]

First world problems

I once caught a cashier so short that she had to give me $3.50 in quarters--the SM was taking his own sweet time.

[KatherineB]

First world problems

Ohhh, yeah!

[fireheart]

What the f*ck IS it with people?

The entitled attitude that people are quick to project onto either Gen Y, Gen Z or "kids these days." Yet it comes across ALL generations >.<

Basically it boils down to three things:

-"I shouldn't have to be inconvenienced"
-"It's everyone elses fault but my own"
and
"I was never taught how to be resilient or overcome challenges because I was so damn spoilt."

Oddly enough I've seen only one of those three out of my students...(the last one)

[Deevil]

There's one situation I can think of where it would make a difference to me if I got dimes and a nickle in place of a quarter, and even then it would not be something I would pitch a fit over. The parking meters downtown (IIRC) a nickel buys you five minutes, a dime ten minutes, and a quarter is a half hour. So, if I happen to be downtown at times that the meter needs fed (Mon-Fri 8-5 or something like that), I try to have quarters to get more time for the money I put in.

[Monterey Jack]

I like getting quarters in change mainly because I use them for my laundry.

[dalesys]

Well, durrh!

His free coffee's a lot more than a dime these days!

Bad cop, no donut!

[Slayer]

I hate getting more coins than there should be; one of my pet peeves lol. I will ask to double check but I don't bitch about it. It is what it is sometimes.

[pzychobitch]

Look at it this way: Now he has to carry around an excess amount of weight. Hopefully that will make the cop think twice about buying donuts.

[wolfie]

Actually, I believe he wouldn't be carrying excess weight due to the dimes instead of quarters (nickels, on the other hand...). My understanding is that historically, circulating silver coins all had the same weight per unit of face value - since they were (quite literally) worth their weight in silver. With a dime weighing one gram (bit of trivia I picked up a while back), a quarter would weigh 2.5 grams, a half-dollar 5 grams, and a silver dollar 10 grams. Also, back when "silver" coins were actually silver, Canada and the U.S. minted to the same standard.

Nickels and pennies, not containing silver, don't fit into that sequence. Note that, of coins dating back to the "silver era", they are the only ones without milled edges - the milled edges were to make "coin clipping" visible, and (at the time) copper and nickel weren't worth enough for it to be a problem.