Oftentimes, I find myself just taking it from the cashier’s
hands, and walking off without counting what was given me. You too?
Quasi
50% of the time I will check to see if the amount of coins make sense but not actually add them up. Almost allways I will check the bills.
Same as k2dave - I check the bills and see if the coins look right. Sometimes if the change isn’t quite right I still don’t bother, unless it’s off by a good 50 cents.
I always count the bills, and almost always count the coins. It’s still a holdover from my dirt-poor college days, and I find errors enough(to my benefit and to theirs) that it makes it worthwhile. And for the record-I always give back extra change, and request the correct change when they’ve shorted me.
I sometimes forget about that whole change thing and walk off. Most of the time I catch myself and go back:)
I always count my change.
I always wait at the drive-thru while I double-check that my order is correct.
I always stand and watch the toilet during the flush to make sure everything went down.
I always peek in the kleenex after I blow my nose.
My name in Cervaise, and I’m an anal-retentive sonofabitch.
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If it’s just a couple of coins, I’ll automatically count them as I put them into my wallet. Otherwise, I don’t bother - my maths isn’t that good. 
It depends on how smarmy or rude the cashier is. If they have an attitude, I make a big show of counting my change before I let them get to another customer. Oddly enough, I’m too lazy to actually count it. I’m just enough of a bastard to make a big deal about it.
Cost of living is high enough where I live that amounts of money less than a whole dollar aren’t relevant in either the
short term or cumulatively.
-Ben
Like Ronin, I figure that amounts less than a dollar probably acheive some sort of karmic balance over long time-scales.
Similarly, the Pepsi machine ate my money this morning, but I didn’t fill out the form for a refund, because a couple of times it’s given me free soda, too.
Podkayne’s Life Philosophy: “It All Comes Out in the Wash.”
Hmmm, on the odd occasion that I use cash (I’m a SAHM with 4 kids, so I rarely make small purchases-I use my debit card for almost everything) the cashier always counts it out-in a very deliberate, this-is-how-I-was-trained sort of way, before she hands it to me. I do watch as she does so, but that isn’t quite the same thing, as I am assuming that she is not performing any sort of slight of hand. The one place I always count my bills, though, is the cash machine. And I purposefully count them as I stand there, so I am in camera range, just in case.
So…my opinion? I am willing to trust humans, but not my ATM.
I usually do what robinh does and count along with the cashier.
The only time I’ll recount the bills is if the cashier gives me back something like 12 singles. Then I get pissed and take my sweet time counting the bills. [Making real sure that none of them are sticking together…that sort of thing.] This is especially true if I can see a bill that would make better change right in the drawer. Why are you giving me all of these singles? There’s a ten right there!
Man I hate that.
Hi Cervaise, I do all these things too. Especially number three. Be a bathroom hero, people!
Does anybody else experience the annoyance of other customers waiting behind you while you count your change? This bugs me to no end - I do it quickly, but I’m not leaving the front of the line until I know it’s correct.
This is me - it’s very rare for me to have more than $2 or $3 on hand. Today, I made the effort to go to the ATM for some cash - I want to stop at the veggie stand on the way home and I won’t write a check there - small biz folks don’t need the hassle. I love my debit card… Now, if I could just remember to enter purchases in my register…
Let me join the crowd. I ALWAYS count my change or any money I’m given. I count ATM money and even if my friend or brother gives me some money, I will still count it. Just in case of mistakes, you know. And at the drive-thru, not only do I count my change and dig through the bag to make sure the order is right, I also open my straw and taste my drink to make sure it’s diet Coke. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had to give back my soda because they gave me regular Coke (and I refuse to just put up with it)
I only watch the flush in certain situations, if you know what I mean. And, yes…I’ll admit it…I’m a kleenex peeker, too.
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Me too! What is it,do you think, we hope to find?
Q
I think, perhaps, it’s more about gaining reassurance about what we don’t want to find. A vein, say.
Or perhaps, especially in my case, I want to be sure that all the honking and bulging my eyes out was actually productive. (I’m always surprised at just how small an amount of…um…stuff is in that kleenex when I just broke a sweat blowing my nose.)
I really don’t like to count the change (if it’s just coins)in front of the cashier because it seems mildly offensive.
But as of late, everytime I get any quarters back as change I invariably end up looking at them very closely to see if it’s a new state quarter I don’t have yet.
So it LOOKS like I’m taking the time to count the change very carefully and then I feel embarrassed over being that insulting to the cashier.
Oh dear. I’m so neurotic.