What am I going to do, put the $20 back in my pocket? No, that’s a dick move. I see that they’re acting like they’re in a rush. Pocketing the paper money will only slow down the transaction.
It’s a lose-lose scenario, just like the grandparent commenter suggests.
How do I know the total until I’m given it?
The store knows which items are taxed and which ones aren’t.
I get you, but cashiers are trained to be impatient and never wait for me to pull my change purse out to round it up, even if I tell them there’s more coming.
This is how it typically goes:
Cashier: Your total is $10.50. Me, handing them $20: Here, hang on to this, I’ve got some change. Cashier snatches the money, enters $20.00 in the machine and stuffs it in the drawer as I fish out the appropriate change. Me, as they are in the midst of gathering a large amount of change from the drawer: Here you go. Cashier, interrupted during their change counting, furrows their brows at me as if I just tried to pull a fast one on them.
It can’t be a quick change scheme if you haven’t given me my change yet. Just don’t be in such a rush.
On that note, as someone from a commonwealth nation, I was deeply appalled during the height of the pandemic when kettles couldn’t be purchased here as they weren’t considered ‘essential items’.
Some background for the unfamiliar:
“OP” is the abbreviation for “Ordo Prædicatorum”, or “Order of Preachers” in English, aka the Dominicans.
Saint Dominic is the founder of their order.
Ditto for the Y6239 problem for what must be a dozen of pieces of software that use the hebrew calendar, when it switches to five digit years.
Oh, it’s real. This was offered for my sister-in-law.
The Onion a little over ten years ago:
Horrified Subway Execs Assumed People Were Buying Footlongs To Share With A Friend
Nice try, sentient escherichia coli.
It’s OP’s friend. Shat Masel is always thinking the most outlandish things.
This is what I often did before going to a party. Sometimes before, sometimes after driving more than 90km to get there
It’s the other way around in Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba, isn’t it?
I suspect the dumbfounded reply you received was because one expected the word ‘epidemic’ to be used instead.
‘pandemic’ usually is taken to mean it has spread across several international boundaries. ‘pan,’ meaning ‘all.’
This is a fun opportunity to share that mainline church teachings consider each tiny drop or fragment of the precious blood and sacred host to contain Christ entirely. It’s not exactly blood here, guts there.