# Why do hipsters pay for things in quarters? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 15, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hipsters-pay-for-things-in-quarters/571450 "2011-02-15T15:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hipsters-pay-for-things-in-quarters/571450/41 "2012-09-18T16:56:23Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Did you really bump a 19 month old thread (a Diamonds02 thread, at that) just to repeat a joke you’d heard? Let me guess, you did a search for “Hipster” to find a place to drop this in? You say that like it’s a bad thing… ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hipsters-pay-for-things-in-quarters/571450/42 "2012-09-18T17:03:57Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > And hipsters have been around since the 1940’s; the name just [fell out of fashion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(1940s_subculture)) for a while. [**Harry the Hipster’s**](http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.gottlieb.02741/enlarge.html?page=1§ion=ver01&size=1024&from=) can be seen on the left side of this night shot in the rain, a 4X5 colour photograph of the New York 52nd Street jazz scene in 1948. (Terrific mood shot by William Gottlieb at the Library of Congress site.) ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hipsters-pay-for-things-in-quarters/571450/43 "2012-09-18T17:40:18Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > No you haven’t. Googling “[site:yelp.com ‘paying in quarters’](https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ayelp.com+quarters+hipsters&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=#hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-us%3AIE-SearchBox&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:yelp.com+%22paying+in+quarters%22+&oq=site:yelp.com+%22paying+in+quarters%22+&gs_l=serp.3...14032.14032.2.14086.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.Tp6kqlOouZA&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=f6600ddf0c979847&biw=1280&bih=843)” turns up 360 results, a quick perusal of which reveals quite a few people testing the wait staff’s patience by paying quarters. > > Unless you’d like to link us to a small sample of these reviews you’re talking about. Which I doubt you’ll do. Why would you even care enough to do a search on it on yelp? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hipsters-pay-for-things-in-quarters/571450/44 "2012-09-18T18:20:42Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > Why would you even care enough to do a search on it on yelp? 😕 Because it took me all of 12 seconds, and I consider the vast majority of your claims to be spurious at best. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hipsters-pay-for-things-in-quarters/571450/45 "2012-09-18T18:22:38Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > Why would you even care enough to do a search on it on yelp? 😕 Um, dearie - this is YOUR thread. YOU stated as follows: > [@Diamonds02](#): > > I read yelp a lot. I’ve read several complaints about service being slow because hipsters were paying for things in quarters. YOU are the one that said you read this on yelp “several” times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-hipsters-pay-for-things-in-quarters/571450.md?page=2)