Making Cashiers Speechless!

SOLD! Send me paypal, and I'll ship you as many half dollars as you want.

 

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A few years ago I went to get gas and had a 20 on me. It was from 1969. The young kid nor the very much older owner of the place, well in his 50's believed the bill was real. Surely, YOU nkow it has to be real you were ALIVE back in the 60's. He shoots back, "if it's real then why no magnetic strip?" I explained they didn't have that security feature in 69. long story short they wouldn't take. I went elsewhere.

 

I've spent forms of money that most people don't see every day on many occasions, and gotten alot of weird looks or comments. The main one I remember was in a gas station. I spent about 4 half dollars. And as I was walking out the girl behind the counter ran over to the girl working the other register, started jumping up and down excitedly shouting "I got half dollars!"

 

ditto!

 

why would you want half dollars when many can get them from their bank at face value. Like myself, i order a box of halves from my bank and spend almost all of them because they are beat up/worn clads. Can't you order them from your bank ? Snowman

 

I would have had to walk her through: "Here's one; that's 50 cents. Here's another; what's 50 plus 50? Here's another; what's $1.00 plus 50?"

My son's fourth-grade class just finished a quarter-long project where they set up a model town, established businesses (including obtaining licenses), manufactured products, and sold them (for play money) at retail, including sales tax (with a little look-up chart, since 7% is a bit of a challenge even for most adults to compute on the fly).

They had an open house where parents were invited. Each parent, when we went in, was given a shopping bag with a $1 note and two 25-cent notes (just simple squares of paper). They had to make change with 1-cent, 5-cent and 10-cent notes.

It did my heart good to see that every child was counting out change more successfully than many cashiers do.

I do sort of wish, though, that I could have show up with some parchment slips in denominations of 50 cents, 20 cents, 3 cents and 2 cents...

 

Yes, the simple necessities of life seem to confuse our youth, but I bet the young lady could text WAAAY faster than you!!!

 

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Chris

 

I work at a gas station and just a few days ago I had one of my coworkers call me over to look at a $100 because they thought it was fake but it was just one of the older style ones. Cool thing is they usually hold on to silver, wheaties and foreign coins for me so I guess if they can at least recognize those it's not so bad.

 

When I was in second grade (1997-1998), halves was part of our math curriculum. We cut out cardboard cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, and halves. In addition to being educated about what each denomination was worth, we had to name each president on the coin. I wouldn't be until 2001 that I knew that halves were available at banks.

Also, that same year, I was with my dad at the car wash and I saw my first Anthony dollar. After the wash, he bought one coin for me to keep and I presented it at show and tell the next day. I wouldn't know about large dollars until I was probably 15 or 16 when my mother bought me a bicentennial Ike.

Since last year, I've spent twos, small dollars, and occasionally halves. I have rarely encountered any complaints, but it does bug me to see people look for a security thread in a two or take a counterfeit pen to it. I usually comment "Think about it, why would anyone counterfeit $2's?" and then tell them that they're available at the bank and new ones may be printed later this year, for fiscal year 2012.

 

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