My day at the Chik-fil-A drive thru window

Me: "I'll have a #1, no-pickle, Coca-Cola."

Teenager: "$7.13, please pay at the window."

I pull up to window and hand her a stack of coins consisting of 3 Sacagawea, 1 Presidential, 3 Susan B's and a Kennedy half dollar.

Teenager: "Wow! This is my lucky day." She did a quick count and came up blank as to how much I had given her. Initially I think she recognized the Sac's and the Prez, but held out the half and started spinning it front to back. "I have to admit...but what is this?"

Me: "A half dollar. 50 cents."

Teenager: She then looked at the SBA's and then the gold dollars and then me...

Me: "Those are dollars."

Teenager: "OK!". She disappears for a few minutes...sticks her head out..."So just to be sure, you gave me $7.50, right?"

Awesome. A quick learner and they got my order right too!

 

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Well at least you didn't give her a deuce or trime.

 

Are you sure she wasn't looking for luster on the kennedy and was playing coy?

 

Cherry picking the customer?

 

Did she give you the correct change?

 

She gave him a 2 cent piece, one bust quarter and 2 V nickels!

 

Actually, I'm fairly impressed.

 

The next time you're there, use some Ikes to pay the bill.

Chris

 

Love me some chic-fil-a... about to head there now, haha. I had a taco-bell worker hold a $2 bill up to the light to look for the strips/waterwarks (that are not there). She said it was a fake since it did not have them. I asked if $1 bill had them too, haha.

 

Dang it! I had one of those in the car too. A lost teaching moment indeed.

Actually her attitude was great. She wasn't self conscious about her lack of familiarity and when she said "Wow! This is my lucky day" I really think she was genuinely happy to see something new.

 

I've always wondered whether an experience like that kills off the stupid brain cells that caused the initial behavior or whether perfectly brand new unused brain cells are finally assigned the job of remembering something.

Or maybe nothing happens at all.

 

She disappeared for a few minutes...hmm. Sure that chicken sandwich didn't taste a little funny.
J/K. Surprised she didn't think that the golden dollars were actually gold.

 

Every year I get a few packs of new $2 bills that I use for tips and paying for small cost items. I love it when young people get this what the heck look on their face and have to ask someone if it's real. We have a favorite server at a local Mexican restaurant and we always tip him in the $2 bills and he saves every one of them and gives them to his grandkids. The problem with using Ikes or those lovely quarter sized gold dollars is that there is usually no place in the drawer for them. Next time my bank gets some Ikes I think I'll take them and use them at the grocery store and see if I can freak out another youngster!!

 

It seems that the difference between an employee who looks forward to every learning experience and one who is just looking for the paycheck is a Kennedy half dollar!

Chris

 

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Why would he throw a perfectly good taco away?!?

 

Okay, I'd have no idea. These SBA, Ikes and Sac $ etc never were demonetised? All still legal tender? Are shops obliged to take them? I thought I heard that the moe recent Sacs were collector coins.

 

Nothing has been demonitized in this country I think.

 

Correct.

Yes

No. There is no law that requires you to accept legal tender.

Correct after 2011 or 2012 I dont remember which all the dollar coins were produced for collectors only and were not released into circulation. But they can still be used as money.

 

Trade dollars were but reinstated by the coinage act of 1965