Not to mention the fact that I want to make sure that something actually hit the tissue and not elsewhere (arms, clothes, windshield, steering wheel, small child, et al), especially the hard crusty stuff that hurts on the way out. [Ick.] And to make sure no blood vessels were broken during transmission. [Double ick.]
The problem here is not about counting your change in front of the cashier, but the cashier that can’t count change unless the machine tells them what to do. I always count the change back to the customer, so 1) They can count right along with me and make sure I got it right; 2) I can double check myself, because sometimes I forgot how to count (Okay, so it was early Monday morning…).
BTW, to actually answer your question: Nope, I never count my change. 
Yeah, I work at a booth at a farmer’s market, and I’m mildly offended when people insist on recounting the quarter, dime & nickle I just gave them.
I almost never count my change. I watch the cashier count it out to me and trust them. I usually pay as close to the actual amount as possible, and I usually only have small bills, anyway, so it’s a very rare occassion that I get more than $5 in change. If I’m getting more than $10 back I might spread out the bills to make sure it “looks” like enough, but I always take coins on total blind faith. ::shrug:: It’s only money.
No, I hardly ever count change. Though if I can see the register, I’ll watch them take it out. With the loose change, what’the worst that could happen? I loose out on a couple of cents. But even if a catastrophic error happens and the wrong bill was in the slot, I’m out $19 at most. BFD.
I put anything smaller than a $5 in the change jar at the end of the day anyway. I’m robbing myself of more money than any clerk ever could (that change jar hasn’t been emptied in almost three years).
Thanks, Cervaise!
Quasi:)
Yes, I do.
Partly it’s because I’m a lot like Cervaise, and partly because it pleases me no end that I can still do math really fast in my head.