Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for February 22, 2015
February 21, 2015
February 23, 2015
Transcript:
Clerk: ... and here's your change! Ralston: Thanks - who came up with this anyway? Captain Victorious: What? Ralston: Plopping your coins on top of your bills when they give you change! Everybody does it, but no one I know stores their coins and bills in the same place! So then you gotta separate them again, but they came from different places to begin with! So why combine them at all, y'know? Captain Victorious: Sorry. You were saying? Ralston: *sigh* Complaining about cash transactions is a dying art...
When I am making change I always give the coins first, then the bills. Putting the coins on top of the bills makes it too easy for the coins to slide off onto the counter and ultimately onto the floor. Coins in the hand first makes them easier to control.
Also, I always count the change being given as I give it: “two-sixty-four (the amount of the transaction), two-six-five, (the penny), two-seventy-five (the dime), three (the quarter), four, five (the bills),” which finally specifies the amount I was given and demonstrates that the amount of change is correct. More quickly: give the customer the coins without counting them back individually: “two-sixty-four (transaction), three (the coins), four, five (the bills).”