$8.34 in NICKELS

[Pixagi]

This happened my first day after training at the grocery store. A nun came in with a charity plate and bought some pastries and such.

Well, I ring up and tell her the total ($8.34) and what does she do? Dumps the charity plate, full of change, onto the counter. When I went for the quarters first, she moved them away and had me count out the NICKELS.

NICKELS.

This means, that after the fact, I had about $10 worth of nickels in my drawer.

Luckily, I never saw that nun again.

[lordlundar]

Oh! Oh! I had this one before the last hack.

I had a customer buy a computer component that topped out just under $260. She then sets this full piggy bank on the counter, loaded with toonies.

130 coins later, change delivered and me trying to unload as much toonies as possible on ANYONE! At the end of the night, when my drop was counted, we had to swap out all the coins for bills and kept the toonies in our drop box. The next week, $140 dollars in loonies and toonies.

On the plus side, it took us a month to finally need to order more loonies and toonies from the bank.

[Legal Eagle]

sorry i'm british, can someone please tell me what a loonie & a toonie is?.

[Boozy]

The dollar coin here in Canada has a loon on it, so being as Canadians are so creative, we dubbed it the "loonie".
A few years later, they introduced the two-dollar coin. So naturally, it became known colloquially as the "Toonie".

[Plaidman]

Canadian money. Loonies are one dollar coins, Twonnies are two dollar coins.


At least I think so O_O

[Becks]

I must be in a mood, because I'm in my "At least it wasn't unrolled pennies" phase.

[Buglady]

I'm still disappointed that the alternate name "doubloons" never caught on!

I save my coins for big purchases, but I take them to the bank first

[BusyBee]

A loon/loony, to me, means a crazy person.
I'd love to see a representation of that on a coin

I've had a few people pay amounts averaging $5, all with 5c coins... Thankfully larger amounts have at least a few 10c coins in there

[Dria]

A loon/loony, to me, means a crazy person.
I'd love to see a representation of that on a coin

Well, it *does* lend itself to the description "loonier than a Canadian dollar coin"...

[Miss Maple Leaf]

This means, that after the fact, I had about $10 worth of nickels in my drawer.

Couldn't you have just refused them, since they weren't properly rolled? After all, you shouldn't have had to count out that woman's money for her, she should have had it prepared before she came in. Or does your grocery store say to accept payment no matter how much loose change it's composed of?

*Is very thankful her boss told her she could refuse large amounts of coin unless it's in proper coin rollers*

[MystyGlyttyr]

I would have felt bad turning down a nun, regardless. Even if you don't believe in any version of God or whatever, I know I'd consider it a good karmic moment and just take the nickels. After all, when I was in Sunday School, the nuns would often buy doughnuts and sell them back to us for profit, and then use the money on our church nursery, so goodness all around.

Anyone else, though, they'd have gotten bit. Because yikes. That's over 160 nickels.

[skeptic53]

Reminds me of the apocryphal story (I read it in an old Reader's Digest compilation) of the lady who got on a street trolley in the days when the fare was five cents. She gave the conductor a $10 bill and apologized, saying "I'm so sorry, I haven't any nickels". The conductor grimly replied "Don't worry, lady. In a few minutes you'll have 99 of them".

[Pixagi]

Well, they all told me I didn't have to take it, but she was a Nun! Now, I personally don't have any distinguished faith, but...

And really, other then the no quarter thing, she was pretty nice and was chatting it up with my co-workers and myself, so yeah.

[wagegoth]

Couldn't you have just refused them, since they weren't properly rolled?

Many of the stores I go to won't accept rolled coins, because people will short the roll by a few coins. The bank won't take them without opening them and counting the coins or running them through the coin counter, if they have one.

[Amethyst Hunter]

I collect Canadian currency. Because hopefully one day I'll be able to go back to visit a friend who lives in Sudbury. So I want to be prepared, fund-wise.