I want a sign
In great big letters, to post in the store:
This is a Dollar Store. Not A Bank.
- If You Want Change For Your Hundred, Go To the Bank.
- If You Want Change For Your Twenty, Buy Something.
- Please Do Not Direct How I Should Give You Change Back.
- If You Disagree, Please, GO TO YOUR BANK.
My cash drawer has between $100 - $350 in at any given time. Our 'bank' may be low on coin change. It might be low on ones or fives. We do not make change unless someone buys a product in the store. In the past, people would come in early Sunday morning and purchase a thirty-five cent pack of gum with a hundred dollar bill - regularly - depleting all of our 'bank'. We now only accept hundred dollar bills when someone makes a purchase of over forty-five dollars.
Today, for example, I had a woman decide to pay for an eight dollar charge with a twenty. I gave her a ten and two ones and closed the drawer. She jumped all over me. "I need change!" I opened the drawer and gave her two fives. "No, I need all ones!"
I said, "Look, lady, I don't have ones to give you. I am low on them. You can have the two fives or the ten." She huffed out of the store with the fives.
Later, a guy threw a dollar at me while I was finishing change for another customer - "Honey, give me four quarters for this dollar." At the time, I was down to about eight quarters, but I let him have them, as he's a regular customer.
Around two o'clock, a woman came in and snapped a hundred dollar bill at me and said, "I need you to give me two fifties for this."
I said, "Well, first of all, you have to buy something before I give you change. Secondly, we don't accept hundred dollar bills," and I pointed to the sign displayed above the register. "Thirdly, I don't have any fifty dollar bills."
She gave me a long, blank look, then turned on her heel and stomped out of the store.
...really. Seriously. I want that sign.
And the other one that reads, "If every other word out of your mouth is 'fuck', you can just leave the parking lot without bothering to come inside. Thanks."
This is a Dollar Store. Not A Bank.
- If You Want Change For Your Hundred, Go To the Bank.
- If You Want Change For Your Twenty, Buy Something.
- Please Do Not Direct How I Should Give You Change Back.
- If You Disagree, Please, GO TO YOUR BANK.
My cash drawer has between $100 - $350 in at any given time. Our 'bank' may be low on coin change. It might be low on ones or fives. We do not make change unless someone buys a product in the store. In the past, people would come in early Sunday morning and purchase a thirty-five cent pack of gum with a hundred dollar bill - regularly - depleting all of our 'bank'. We now only accept hundred dollar bills when someone makes a purchase of over forty-five dollars.
Today, for example, I had a woman decide to pay for an eight dollar charge with a twenty. I gave her a ten and two ones and closed the drawer. She jumped all over me. "I need change!" I opened the drawer and gave her two fives. "No, I need all ones!"
I said, "Look, lady, I don't have ones to give you. I am low on them. You can have the two fives or the ten." She huffed out of the store with the fives.
Later, a guy threw a dollar at me while I was finishing change for another customer - "Honey, give me four quarters for this dollar." At the time, I was down to about eight quarters, but I let him have them, as he's a regular customer.
Around two o'clock, a woman came in and snapped a hundred dollar bill at me and said, "I need you to give me two fifties for this."
I said, "Well, first of all, you have to buy something before I give you change. Secondly, we don't accept hundred dollar bills," and I pointed to the sign displayed above the register. "Thirdly, I don't have any fifty dollar bills."
She gave me a long, blank look, then turned on her heel and stomped out of the store.
...really. Seriously. I want that sign.
And the other one that reads, "If every other word out of your mouth is 'fuck', you can just leave the parking lot without bothering to come inside. Thanks."