Anyone else hate kids who pay with crumpled up dollar bills and change?

[Ree]

Just a reminder...the OP was about kids (or adults) who toss wadded up money at the cashier.

Please do not let this turn to a fratching cash vs. debit/credit card debate.

Yep...we have been down this road before. *sigh*

[Lace Neil Singer]

I once had fifty pounds in five pound notes handed to me that wasn't crumpled... worse. Each note was folded up to the maximum amount of folding. O_o Took me ages to unfold each note.

[ShinyGreenApple]

Actually a kid doing this I can pretty much overlook, since they're usually being taught how to handle transactions and most parents will step in and tell them to unfold the money and count it out instead of just chucking their entire savings at me. Adults, however, get no pass, and I'll take my sugary sweet time unfolding the bills until I'm satisfied with how smooth they are.

[Andara Bledin]

I wouldn't necessarily call it evil - I would call it not comprehending the concept of wallets and debit cards.

In my ex's case it was neither evil, nor lack of comprehension. He was a slob.

Not only were his bills always in crumpled heaps, but they'd be in multiple pockets and he'd never know how much he actually had. >_<

Actually, the boyfriend isn't much better about crumpled bills in multiple pockets, but he knows how much he has and will have it straight and faced before he gets to the point of payment.

All of my money must be faced and folded and stored in my wallet at all times (what little of it I carry) unless I am specifically not carrying my wallet or keeping my cash separated.

^-.-^

[Spork4pedro]

while I agree that kids/adults tossing wadded bills is inconvienient the worst is by far the kids that pull the bils out of their shoes and the women that pull it out of their bras! Blech!

[bainsidhe]

while I agree that kids/adults tossing wadded bills is inconvienient the worst is by far the kids that pull the bils out of their shoes and the women that pull it out of their bras! Blech!

You forgot the dirty, smelly drunks that pull damp money out of their pockets. Yeah. There wasn't enough soap for that one. Blech.

[Racket_Man]

Most kids, especially younger ones, have no real idea about the value of the money they are handing over. Or they just don't give a damn when they shove the money in their pocket.

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I disagree. to paraphrase Bill Cosby "you have to rapid fire phrases at children to get them to listen, but let Gramdpa reach into his pocket and pull out change as in 'Let's see if Gramdpa has any money for the GRANDChildren' whoosh they are there. they listened, understood and responded" as in they KNOW what money is and what its value is and what can be done with it in the end.

now to my point. as a delivery driver I see this all of the time. I rolll up to the door with a delivery. parents send the child to the door with cash. the child's age range can be anywhere between 6 and 14. the parents have generously provided for a tip. the child "innocently" asks for the total. looks at the bills in their hand looks at me, then peels off the EXTRA bills (my tip) and hands me just barely enough cash for the total. they then proceed to STUFF those bills in their pocket and take the order and quickly close the door.

They DO indeed know the value of that money in their hand

[Teefies2]

I once had a couple (age, sex, race not important) make a $5 purchase. They handed me 2 $1 bills and a baggy of dimes .. yes DIMES! As I *very* carefully and slowly counted each dime, they moaned and stated how they weren't ever shopping here again with their precious change (uh yeah isn't that the point of me counting the change????) Turns out they were $1.50 short. And of course, it was my fault I "didn't count it right"!!!! So I very sweetly said "you may be right" and proceeded to count the dimes again VERY slowly, out loud. At which point, they said WTH and left without their purchase, and more importantly, without their dimes!! Woo Hoo :-)

[Kereminde]

Well, as a server, I don't get too many crumpled bills. But I do get check presenters which don't close due to the change stuffed in every plastic pocket it can fit in. (One explanation for why they break or stretch too much.) More often than not, the tip just barely exceeds exact change.

I'm okay with this, because then I can play a game: "Will this table leave me the exact change in coins I leave them?" Survey has said about 70% of the tables just will leave the exact change. If I estimate or round the change in their favor, roughly 99% of the time I find the change missing.

The one time I got a crumpled bill which was pretty much a ball, I coughed and went. "Sir, I can't accept that. I can't even be sure what kind of bill it is." Tone was everything, because he laughed a bit, and straightened it out on the edge of the table before handing it over. I fail to comprehend, however, why a $10 bill was mistreated thusly . . .

I mean, sure, you can tell me til I'm blue in the ears the whole story of how it came to pass, but I still won't comprehend it.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I once had a couple (age, sex, race not important) make a $5 purchase. They handed me 2 $1 bills and a baggy of dimes .. yes DIMES! As I *very* carefully and slowly counted each dime, they moaned and stated how they weren't ever shopping here again with their precious change (uh yeah isn't that the point of me counting the change????) Turns out they were $1.50 short. And of course, it was my fault I "didn't count it right"!!!! So I very sweetly said "you may be right" and proceeded to count the dimes again VERY slowly, out loud. At which point, they said WTH and left without their purchase, and more importantly, without their dimes!! Woo Hoo :-)

I once had a guy try to pay for his fuel with a shopping bag of £10 in pennies and tuppennies. I refused to accept it; I told him to visit the coinstar over the road. He stared at me as tho I'd asked him to run the London Marathon. -.- Sorry, but I am not taking a fucking giant bag of coppers as payment.

[BowserKoopa1]

I once had a couple (age, sex, race not important) make a $5 purchase. They handed me 2 $1 bills and a baggy of dimes .. yes DIMES! As I *very* carefully and slowly counted each dime, they moaned and stated how they weren't ever shopping here again with their precious change (uh yeah isn't that the point of me counting the change????) Turns out they were $1.50 short. And of course, it was my fault I "didn't count it right"!!!! So I very sweetly said "you may be right" and proceeded to count the dimes again VERY slowly, out loud. At which point, they said WTH and left without their purchase, and more importantly, without their dimes!! Woo Hoo :-)

Ah yes, customers who like to pay with loose change. I also make them wait by counting it out twice and slowly. 1 time a lady took forever to pay with her transaction because she let her kid pay with pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Well, she came up 5 cents short and guess what? SL= Sucky Lady
Me: Maam, you're still 5 cents short.
SL: But its only 5 cents.
Me: You still need 5 more cents.
SL: Can't you just let it go?
Me: No, Maam. I don't wish to come up short, and I don't wish to get into trouble with management. (Ok this was a lie and a little bit of a smartass comment)
Needless to say, she gave me the look and handed over 5 cents and walked away in a huff.
If you pay properly, I will gladly let the 5 cents go. Pay the way she did, I will make you pay down to the last penny.
Also a little FYI, most banks (Wells Fargo anyway) have coin counting machines, so put it into a plastic bag, take it there, and they will convert it into greenbacks for you. Got it, sucky customers?

[chikenlady]

My kids used to keep their bills scrunched up in their pockets and not use the wallets they have, until they were reminded that I keep any money found doing laundry.
The kept forgetting to take out the money but not the wallet and I made a fair bit of cash.

[protege]

...and I'm sure that guy bitched that you "had to take it" since it was legal tender

But, things could be worse. When I was in Scouts, we had one guy named 'Larry'...who was constantly losing his cash. Maybe if he didn't fold it into tiny squares, which were carelessly tossed into his pockets. Of course...Larry was the same guy who, while hiking at Philmont Scout Ranch in NM (awesome scenery, btw), apparently had too much of the "southwest food," and um, shit his pants Now, shitting one's pants is bad enough. But, burying them...and forgetting that your wallet (plus the aforementioned wadded-up cash) is in there, and digging them back up is another story!

...and now that I've made the entire board I will say this. I never understood why some people have to fold their cash up like that. There's no reason, other than to be an asshole. Not all businesses will take money in that condition.

[KitterCat]

I think it depends on the age of the child. I have had 5 year olds bring me their piggy banks to buy a toy at a Fair. This is money that they have saved for the entire year to buy this one expensive toy. I have found myself counting out $65 in change. I’m not going to tell them “No” just because most of it is in change.

A pre-teen is another matter. They should know by now how to keep money. After all if a 5 year old has figured out that money goes into the piggy bank for safe keeping, the 10 year old should have figured out that it goes in wallet/purse when your out for the same reason.

[MoonCat]

A woman I work with once found a bill wedged deep in a corner of her jeans, compressed into a tiny wad. It had gone through the wash, who knows how many times. She very carefully began to pry it apart, hoping it was a one dollar bill. Nope. It was a 20, and it was in such bad shape it fell apart, but you could see enough to know it was 20 bucks "down the drain".