# Cashiers unwilling to say $6.66 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966 "2014-04-25T16:38:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/61 "2014-04-27T20:17:38Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Fred Phelps is dead? Maybe there is a god after all. Yup. Just google him; you’ll find lots of news articles on his death. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/62 "2014-04-27T21:37:58Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > Friends laid a wedding related bill with check # 666. Still married, have a kid. Hey, how is Rosemary’s baby? ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/63 "2014-04-28T00:16:11Z")
A friend and I use to try to get all sorts of things to equal 666 just by making up some BS numerology (a redundancy there I know). So: B\_\_A\_\_T\_\_ T\_\_L\_\_E\_\_\_P\_\_O\_\_P\_\_ E 2\_\_1 _20_ 20\_12\_5\_\_16\_ 15\_ 16\_ 5 (Assign the letters their numerical place in the alphabet) 3 4 17 31 21 (drop the zeros and then add each pair together until you get two two numbers) 7 8 4 3 15 7 6 7 67 X 10 (the number of letters in my user name) = 670 Subtract 4 to honor Mars, the God of War (4th planet, also relates to the Battle part of my user name) - this can be any reason “_And take back one Kadan, to honor the Hebrew God whose ark this is_” 😃 and: 666 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/64 "2014-04-29T10:48:03Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > we were in the same housing co-op and he had a 666 number and ours was 668… > [@dracoi](#): > > For a while in college, I lived at 667 [street name]. There was nothing but a city parking lot across the street The Reagans’ L.A. home is a 668 address. I had a courier job for a couple years and was so excited to see the address when I had my first delivery there. By the time I had that job Ron was long gone, it was just Nancy living there. I can confirm that the street does _not_ have a 666 address, so if you were so inclined you could suggest that they got their address changed to 668 hoping we wouldn’t notice. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/65 "2014-04-29T12:02:28Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Hey, at least the great minimum wage masses are educated enough to know about this superstition. [Only if they freak out over 616 and Nero too.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616_(number)#The_Number_of_the_Beast) That said, we were at the Doubletree in Orlando this past weekend and while laying out by the pool, we were trying to figure out if the top floor was a penthouse or just decoration. I counted the floors and said that it must be a floor based on the fact that there were 17 floors and the elevator had a 17 button. My SO explained I was wrong because there was no 13th floor. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/66 "2014-04-29T12:26:27Z")
Once or twice as a cashier I had $6.66 come up as a total. The first time, the lady gave me an extra penny. The second time, the girl grabbed a pack of gum to add to the order. I said nothing and went on with my job. ---
**Author:** ![delsina363](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@delsina363](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delsina363)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/67 "2014-04-29T16:44:39Z")
:eek: I do not know where you guys are from, but I never heard anything like this. I have had many jobs over the years, including working in a retail store and a fast food restaurant. I have never noticed anyone having any reaction to a total of 666, or the number 666. I cannot believe all the stories on here. Not much surprises me, but these stories have. I guess there are not too many God fearing people in Boston 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/68 "2014-04-29T17:16:28Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I was once playing three card poker at a casino, and hit trips…sixes. An older woman sitting next to me said something Jesusy and left the table. Was it “Jesus Christ I can’t win a hand!”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/69 "2014-04-29T17:23:44Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > A friend and I use to try to get all sorts of things to equal 666 just by making up some BS numerology (a redundancy there I know). > > So: > > B\_\_A\_\_T\_\_ T\_\_L\_\_E\_\_\_P\_\_O\_\_P\_\_ E > > 2\_\_1 _20_ 20\_12\_5\_\_16\_ 15\_ 16\_ 5 (Assign the letters their numerical place in the alphabet) > > 3 4 17 31 21 (drop the zeros and then add each pair together until you get two two numbers) > > 7 8 4 3 > > 15 7 > > 6 7 > > 67 X 10 (the number of letters in my user name) = 670 > > Subtract 4 to honor Mars, the God of War (4th planet, also relates to the Battle part of my user name) - **this can be any reason "_And take back one Kadan, to honor the Hebrew God whose ark this is_**" 😃 and: > > 666 :eek: OmG - ROTFLMAO!!! ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/70 "2014-04-29T17:26:30Z")
> [@delsina363](#): > > :eek: I do not know where you guys are from, but I never heard anything like this. > > I have had many jobs over the years, including working in a retail store and a fast food restaurant. I have never noticed anyone having any reaction to a total of 666, or the number 666. > > I cannot believe all the stories on here. Not much surprises me, but these stories have. \*\*I guess there are not too many God fearing people in Boston \*\*😛 Heathens!!! ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/71 "2014-04-29T17:29:27Z")
My Father’s idiot 4th wife wouldn’t move into the house until he got the post office to change our RR Box# from 666 to 665. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/72 "2014-04-29T17:32:40Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I was once playing poker in Atlantic City, 7 card stud. Just me and another left in the hand. He had 2 6s showing. I could still beat him. He tripped the 6 which pretty much sunk my hand. He folded and I won. He said he couldn’t take money for 3 6s. I was happy to take his. I guess he thought Jeezus hated that number but had no problem with the drinking and gambling. Wow. The last time I played poker, I raked in some nice loot with a full boat: sixes over jacks. I made all kinds of jokes about how de debbil helped me win the hand. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/73 "2014-04-29T19:51:56Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > Heathens!!! You say that like it’s a bad thing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/74 "2014-04-29T21:01:35Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > When you find somebody embracing a religious superstition like this, double down on them. Tell them things like 666 or the devil have no power over you because you’re protected by your faith. Suggest to them that they should accept Jesus into their life and then they wouldn’t need to be afraid anymore. > > This will confuse these people. They think of themselves as hyper-Christians and they don’t know how to react when somebody suggests they aren’t Christian enough. I wanna do this! In fact, I’ll be scouring my local fast food joints to calculate how I can get a bill or change in that exact amount! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/75 "2014-05-01T04:38:48Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > _spectacles, testicles, watch, and cigar_ “Watch and cigar”? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/76 "2014-05-01T04:50:22Z")
Teach them how to round off. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/77 "2014-05-01T05:20:05Z")
I only had this happen once but it was pretty much just as the OP said. The clerk turned the POS screen to me and pointed to the total. When he counted out the change he dumped the coins into my hand without counting them out and then said “seven, eight, nine and ten” and seemed really glad to see me leave. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/78 "2014-05-01T05:25:27Z")
Maybe if your order comes to $6.66, it’s god cluing the cashier that you’re demonic. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/79 "2014-05-01T05:57:43Z")
The late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau often was accused by right-wing Christian-cretins of being the devil or being in league with the devil. Here he is with his two sons [**in his Mercedes**](http://actualites.ca.msn.com/la-famille-trudeau#image=5), in 1980. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966/80 "2014-05-01T06:31:47Z")
there’s a Rt-666 in Ohio. It’s curvy and hilly. Once after a massive rain there were parts of the road that washed out and the guard rails were hanging out over nothing. Wish I could have taken a picture of it with the road sign but twisting winding roads don’t lend themselves to loitering. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cashiers-unwilling-to-say-6-66/686966.md?page=5)