A twelve-year-old boy comes in with his friend and buys cherry cola.  He pays the $1.20 in coins and then pauses, flips a nickel onto the counter.  "What the heck," he says, "have a tip.  Buy yourself something nice."  Half a day later and I still can't decide if he was kidding.

I witnessed, the other day at register one, the following exchange between an elderly woman and her daughter ( Read more... )