Not as far as I can tell (unless the guy at the ticket booth had any trouble figuring out how to ring up a sale or whatever with the cash after I left).
Specifically: no, I didn’t even have a vehicle to park back then.
Generally: someone upthread asked if I gained anything tangible, directly or indirectly, from handing over the cash — and, AFAICT, the answer is “no.”
Did you gain anything other than your satisfaction at having accomplished your goal?
How about the change?
Did doing this enable you to say you kept a promise? (I can’t think of a specific scenario where that might be the case given what we know, but it doesn’t seem completely out of the question.)
I’m not 100% sure I understand what you’re asking. Like, you’re picturing me already at the box office, conducting this “unusual transaction” by handing over cash and then getting asked which showing I have a preference for, right? At that point, I’ve already traveled there, right?
I’m not sure I’d put it like that, but I guess you’re right.
I think I handed over the correct amount, to the penny.
Getting rid of change?
I don’t believe I’d ever promised to hand over that money, and that I can’t say I kept a promise by doing so.
Nope. (Also: why would I bother with all that rigamarole? If I wanted to get rid of some cash right when I just so happened to be in front of a guy selling tickets at a theater’s box office, wouldn’t I just, like, hand it to him without also saying weird stuff at him? That sounds like work!)
Is there a specific person to whom you wanted to be able to say, truthfully, that you bought a ticket for the show? Or did you just want to be able to say it in general?
Did your reason for wanting to say this have anything to do with…
Deceiving someone?
Making a rhetorical point of some sort?
Establishing your bona fides as a supporter of the arts and / or this particular theater group or production?
Was this a professional production? A school / college production? Community theater?
And more importantly, is the answer to this relevant?
Did it matter to you whether the ticket seller pocketed the cash personally or found a way to insert it into the ticket-sales revenue?
Did you simply want to be seen (and/or recorded on box-office security video) handing money over at the box office (and I can’t think of why you would, but this is, after all, lateral thinking)?
Another thought: was it your intention to make yourself memorable to the ticket seller? Or would you have been able to carry out your goal regardless of whether he remembered you or not?
In general.
I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “rhetorical”. I am pretty sure I know what you mean by the other options, but I fear that literally true answers would be woefully misleading.
But, strictly speaking: yeah, it had something to do with deceiving someone, and it’s not wrong to say that I wanted to be establish that I supported this particular production.
College. (And, to answer the question from Chronos: that might be relevant.)
No more than when I’ve handed a guy some cash and gotten a ticket; I wouldn’t approve of any of ‘em pocketing the money instead of putting it where it belongs.
No, nothing like that. But you’re on the right track in that you’d solve this lateral thinking problem if you didn’t try quite so hard to imagine up a specific.
I wasn’t trying to be memorable, beyond what you already know (about me saying something odd). It makes no difference if he forgot the whole thing.
Did your plan involve saying anything to the ticket seller other than whatever was required to conduct the transaction to your satisfaction?
Rather the opposite; I mentioned the reason I was doing this, and I guess I didn’t really need to do that; I probably could’ve just left without bothering to offer an explanation.