I ordered lunch today at a well established downtown halifax mall food court. The cashier/owner told me four dollars so I hand her a ten dollar bill happily waiting to receive six dollars back. so what do you do, you give me a five dollar bill and a pile of coins. I quickly count them and come to find out the price of the meal was really 4.03. you took the time and effort to count out 97 cents worth of coins rather than rounding down like any decent person would do. so the disappointment must have shown on my face. The scowl on yours didn’t make much sense to me. Not only did you lie about the price but now I have a pile of change to contend with. —SS
This article appears in Nov 17-23, 2011.
Life is such a bitch, isn’t it?
The cashier took the time to count out the coinage? So did you OP! So what? It’s three bloody cents, how petty! Now if it was a dime I could see, right Great Value?
The cashier should have rounded up and charged you 4.05 for the fucking scowl you gave him/her. Next time you will surely have the exact change since we all know your day started out with 97 of the fuckers.
Petty? Some may say so at least on an individual basis. But depending on volume of business overcharging customers by a few cents can mean a lot of ‘extra’ undeclared income in the run of the year. Far from petty to the overcharging business. And many make a habit of doing it.
Unlike many other places in the world…we don’t barter here in Canada.
So if the price is $4.03 …expect to pay 4 dollars & 3 cents !
If this upsets you so much, head back to where ever it is you normally reside.
PS…wait until you go to a resturant & the waiter/waitress expects a tip…you are going to shit your pants when they add 15% to your bill !
Actually, troodon, I think anything under 1 hour of my time or wages is not worth getting upset about, because that is approximately how much good will i would offer a fellow citizen in need of help. Ie a ride to the gas station, a warm place to wait for a taxi, etc.
This business obviously needs the 3 cents, so why should we harshly judge them right?
More, i’m curious, are there any franchise restaurants like BP that automatically put the tip on the bill?
Fucking whiner, this can’t be a real post, can it?
wait… wait…
dude, it’s only 7 coins…. that’s really not that big a deal.
three quarters, two dimes, and two pennies.
I mean, it’s not like she started taking out and counting 97 pennies one by one…
by chance OP, did you right a bitch about a gas station attendent recently?
i had a kid pay with dimes once, but they were rolled up and he had been saving
It’s called a business OP. They are there to make money. Not give it away, whether you find all those coins irritating or not. If they had of rounded up you would be bitching that they hosed you.
If they said it was $4 they should have stuck with that, after all, the only logical reason for not mentioning the three cents was that they intended not to make the customer cough up the 3 cents. Having said that, I’m not sure it’s enough of an issue to get your panties all in a twist about. They probably just had a brain fart. Is three quarters, two dimes and two pennies really that big of a burden? And why do they have to lose money, rather than YOU giving them three pennies to get an even $6 back?
That’s how businesses operate OP. They are suppose to make money, not give it away.
LOL…you have to resort to a mall food court. Gross!
Can we all just take a moment here to realize this guy wrote a bitch to complain about receiving exact change for a purchase he/she made.
I am sure your life is a very rich and fulfilling one.
I know what OP was bitching about lovinglife. I just find it mind-numbingly trivial.
which is exact;y my point – reworded
Nope, I wrote the gas station attendant bitch. This bitch belongs to someone else.
No-that’s a legitimate bitch. If I had been told the price was $4.03, I would have given the clerk the ten plus three pennies, or even a nickle, then thrown the two pennies into the penny box. It would annoy me to get 97¢ plus a five back. I try not to weigh my life down with pennies.
I am old school, though, and learned to ‘count back’ change without the register telling me the correct amount.
After reading this and several other Bitches, I feel that this column should be renamed “First World Problems”. The saying applies to every single one.
Well, duh, Heathro, look at a map, eh?
What do you expect? If our problems were lack of drinking water or electricity, we’d hardly be bitching about it on the internet now, would we?
Change can be weighty in the pocket for the sake of three cents OP, but those few pennies add up quick. When we first changed prices of the coffee, where I used to work, we felt bad handing back all of that change, so we all decided to round it up, and at the end of the day, it was a nice chunk taken out of our till and tips. Some places get in trouble for as much as one dollar shortages.
I agree that it’s a pain that they SAID $4 but charged you differently, but I wouldn’t say it’s worth a whole bitch.
First, OP the cashier gave you that scowl because they probably get that look you gave after giving back that amount of change a lot. They’re just the cashier. Do you think they have ANY controll over the pricing of product?
Second, I can’t believe how many posters got what the Bitch was about so misconstrued. OP was bitching that they said $4 and charged him/her $4.03…which isn’t the same as what the cashier had said. Try actually reading the original post first and think about what the person is saying before flying of the handle on this Bitch.