Lady, it’s 90 degrees out. Everyone wants ice cream today. Note the loooong line behind you. Is it really fuckin’ necessary to decide that TODAY is the day to get rid of all your spare change? Sloooooowly counting out $4.34 in nickels, pennies, and dimes while 15 people behind you wait for their chance to get ice cream is not cool. Hell, had I not been busy seething with frustrations behind you, I’d’ve paid for your fucking ice cream just to get you out of the goddamn way.
Isn’t it possible that the change was all she had? Maybe she searched through coat pockets, couch cushions etc. so that she could buy her child an ice cream on a hot day.
It’s the pit, so no, she didn’t have to pay with change. She was just doing it to torture me and all the other people waiting in the heat for our ice cream.
bullshit. i’ve been poor enough to have to pay for things in small change before, and i made sure to have the money ready when i got to the checkout. even when i didn’t know how much it was going to be exactly, i’d have, say, $4 in change counted out. if it comes to $4.34 then i only have to count out 34 cents.
