Last week I was in a small town in Texas and checked a couple banks for half dollars looking for silver. I found about $10 of halves, but no silver. So, in another small town, I stopped at McDonalds and the bill was $3.20. I handed her 7 Kennedy half dollars and she gave me a nickel back. Me: You still owe me a quarter Her: Nawwwww, Really? Me: Yes, I gave you 7 50 cent pieces. She opened the drawer, and pulled them out. She put 3 sets of 2 halves together and stated, Nope, that is $3.25. Me: No, it is $3.50. Her: It is $3.25, this says "half dollar." Me: Exactly, half a dollar is 50 cents. So I gave you $3.50, not $3.25. She looked at the coins for several seconds, then looked up and said, "So, how much do I owe you? Me: A quarter She hesitated, then gave me a quarter. Kids today.....
Haha yeah I had something similar happen to me when I bought I comic book. I paid with 3 Sac. dollars and the cashier looked at them funny and thought they were thick chocolates candies!! Seriously!! He actually took one and tried to bend it and the owner said they were real money. I got my change back and it included a silver Rose, not bad exchange
Nothing to do with money, the other day at the resell shop, my nine year old daughter didn't know what a 45 record was.
Sad...those "kids" can't be too much younger than me - 10-13 yrs at most. Imagine what another 10-15 years will do.
I've found the easiest way is to lay them down two at a time and say "one dollar,two dollars,three dollars" and then the single one is fifty cents,= $3.50. Asking somebody to multiply 7 x .50 is just too much to ask. Math is just too hard!:desk:
Not just kids. I paid my mechanic to fix my flat tire with presidential dollars, and he thought they were Canadian.
Well said. But it is not just in the today i was buying a jar of houny 28.50 i handed in 30 after about 10 min trying to figue out her till. She tried to give me back 21.50. Now i could have taken hand in all. But i am not like that. I pointed out her mistake. All she said was hu how did i do that. Kids is right
That is what was weird though, she got that 6 of them made $3, but she kept thinking that the extra one was 25 cents..... Anyway, it was funny.
woahhh woahhhh wooooahhhh- I am highly offended by this statement and would like to rename this post. "Stupid people today....."
Just today I gave a fastfood person 4 dollars (2-$2). She looked at like I was crazy, then look at the $2 bill as if it was fake. then took out one of those money pens that people use on 50's and 100's. I could hardly believe that she hadn;t ever heard or seen a $2 bill. I am only 24 for goodness sake!
LMAO! This is a great post! Not coin related...but my Neice (the Penn State grad) was coming for a visit. She was driving her Mom's car which didn't have a Nav unit. She got lost and didn't know how to read a map to get herself "un-lost" ...unbelievable! :rolling: I had to drive to Baltimore so she could follow me. Oh, in case you were wondering, her hair IS blond...although, I don't think that had anything to do with it.
One you've all missed here folks. When the cashier somehow realizes that half dollars, golden dollars and two dollar notes are real they hoard them. THEN they take them into a coin shop to sell because they are rare. Then WE tell them to spend them. (because they're not rare). A vicious cycle indeed as we could see the exact same coins in a few months.
LOL must say i cant think of any stories in my life involving odd denominations. my 50ish year old service desk friend at work was mesmerized by a eisenhower dollar...
When my youngest was in Jr. High, I gave him some Ikes. At MacDonalds, they refused them saying they only accepted American money.
I couldn't get a hot dog salesman in front of the metropolitan museum to accept my quarters let alone ikes. Every time I go to NY I have to fill my quota of 15 dogs per week
A neighbor years ago, who was black and also a school teacher,once ask me break a five for her.I gave her some Susan B.Anthony dollars.She not only refused them and being a school teacher,was unaware who the woman on the coin was.
