'Give me my change!': Customer gets dozens of Sacagawea dollar coins as change for $100 bill after demanding ‘change’ for buying 10 cent candy

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    Font - Posted by u/dr-sparkle 15 hours ago S ņ "You are REQUIRED BY LAW to make change for me RIGHT NOW" You got it buddy. LOC
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    Font - Years ago, I worked at a convenience store, and this store handled a lot of cash. We had a sign stating bills over $20 were only accepted with manager approval. In practice, we could accept them after using the detector pen and visual inspection. We also had a policy that we had to keep the cash in the drawer under a
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    Font - certain amount. We had a safe sytstem to make drops and get change, but it had limits and timers when dispensing. Depending on what was needed, it could take 30 minutes to make change for a $100 bill. I was solo on graveyard, kept my drawer low and didn't have to request change often. The drawer
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    Font - had 5 slots for bill and 5 pockets for coins but we only kept 1s, 5s, 10, 20s in the slots, other bills/checks were put under until we had enough for a drop. The extra coin pocket was used for dollar coins, half dollar coins, coins people left (some people would tell us to keep the change)etc.
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    Font - If someone was a few cents short, we'd use the spare change. I kept my drawer under the limit. When I was on graveyard I was solo and kept my drawer very low and didn't have to request change often. One night, one of our odd regulars came in and bought a bunch of stuff,
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    Font - he paid with Sacagawea dollar coins. They didn't fit in the safe tubes so I had to keep it in the drawer. It was just over $100 in coins. I spread it out over all the slots so the one side wouldn't get too heavy, the drawer would stick if it was too lopsided. I had also made a lot of change for
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    Font - payphones, the air and water machines, people buying items to get change for laundry etc. I was down to 3 $1 bills, the Sacagawea dollar coins, 0 quarters, a few dimes and some nickels, and a bunch of pennies.
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    Font - A guy comes in and comes up to the register with a 10 cent candy. He slaps a $100 bill on the counter. I ask him if he will be getting anything else and he says "no". I ask he has anything smaller, he says "NO". So I tell him, don't worry then, the candy is on the house, I can use the "have a penny, leave a penny" money. He
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    Font - gets mad and says he won't take charity and I need to make change for him. I try to explain that don't have the cash in my drawer and it would take 30 minutes to get the change, but he keeps interupting and not listening. He yells "You are
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    Font - required by law to take my legal tender and make change for me RIGHT NOW" All full of attitude and di ness. So I say "OK". He acts smug like he won something when I pick up the bill. I pull out my detector pen and he starts b ing and moaning. I use the pen, in view
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    Font - of the camera. Then, I hold the bill up to inspect it in view of the camera. I then put the bill in a safe tube to drop it as we were supposed to drop large bills on graveyard before even opening the drawer, then make the slip and drop that after.
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    Font - The customer is still standing there smugly grumbling and I enter the amount tendered in to the register. Now, the counter is raised and the drawer is just below the counter, so it's out of reach of the customers unless they lean and reach. It also doesn't pop open like usual this time
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    Font - because of the weight of the coins. I open the drawer and push the 3 singles back in their slot so that the customer can't see them even if he leans over to look in the drawer. He's being dramatic and turning to make a show of how long he is waiting and can you believe this to an audience
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    Font - of no one so he doesn't notice at first that I am pulling out all those coins. I pull out the 88 cents or so in change, mostly nickels and then start pulling out the Sacagawea dollar coins and putting them on the counter. He turns around and sees the coins and asks "what the fis
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    Font - this shit" so I tell him "I am required by law to accept legal tender and make change, you are required by law to accpet legal tender as change. This is what I have available." He continues having a fit says "YOU SOULD HAVE TOLD ME" I tell him "I tried explaining, sir, but you interupted and insisited I make
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    Font - change" and I go back to counting out the 99 Sacagawea dollar coins. He is silent for a bit and the asks "how the fuck am I supposed to get this home?" I told him I am not responsible for his change after I give it to him.
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    Font - He eventually gathers it up in his shirt ( he pulled the bottom hem of his shirt about halfway up to make like a large psuedo pocket) and slinks off. Edit 1- I added a couple things to hopefully make it clearer. Sacagawea dollars are dollar coins that are golden colored and a little bigger
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    Font - than a US quarter. They were not very widely used and were disliked by many. They also were too big to fit in many coin machines or counters, especially those made before the Sacagawea dollars came out in 2000 I think. They also didn't have the coin roll blanks for them to my knowledge. I don't think the
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    Font - Sacagawea dollars are minted anymore but they are in circulation. Edit 2- Yes, I'm aware, there is no requirement to accept large bills for a purchase. I just wanted to get rid of the coins and fi < with the jerk.
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    Font - acwy93 13 hr. ago For non-Americans: Sacagawea dollars = dollar coins (vs. their more popular $1 bills) Just so you don't also have to look it up
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    Font - sittinginaboat. 15 hr. ago Plus, you didn't have to deal with all those Sacajaweas at closing! Vote Reply Share
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    Font - bro_d8 15 hr. ago • A single 10cent candy? My 15 years of retail red alert is going off. I'd check that bill 30 times and have it blessed by the Vi gin Mary herself before I'd break it. ↑ Vote Reply Share

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