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Friday, April 22, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Pinoys and the coins that cashiers ask for all the time
There's the fact that we point with our lips, and also that everything is just at the next corner, or that a decent call-out is a psst. But the most amusing and annoying for me is that most cashiers ask for your loose change every time you pay for anything. I guess giving out candies as change has reached international shores as I have experienced this in Tokyo, Hanoi, HCMC, Singapore, Bangkok, KL and even Guam. But no one has yet immersed themselves in the habit of asking for more money when you have paid for things you have bought. "Sir, do you have 3 pesos?", to even out the change to a rounded off figure, fair and square.
It wouldn't have bothered me, but most cashiers now expect you to always have at least P10 in loose change in your pockets at any time. Some even glare at you when you can't give out the required loose change. The nerd, as some of my funny sarcastic friends would exclaim. Though I admit that I do have more than P10 in my pockets at any given time (sometimes even P100, please don't kill me), and some of my friends know that and even egg on the cashiers and harass me to cop out the required change whenever THEY buy stuff, and i happen to be with them. Now, I even pay for my friends' stuff!!! Talk about irony that went left field.
I hope this weird habit doesn't ship out to other countries. Otherwise, it would be part of the signs that the end is coming. The whole world will implode with the sheer number of cashiers around the world simultaneously asking you to give them more money when you have given them more than what you were supposed to pay in the first place.
Today I have resolved not to entertain the cashiers' badgering. The last one got a cold "Wala" from me with a languid stare that would stand down even the icy stare of the Man with No Name, or even Clint Eastwood himself, or even Toshiro Mifune (or whoever LOL).
So the next time someone asks you for loose change, tell them "I would give it to you if I had it, which only means I don't have it, so don't ask me, ok?" LOL. That should shut them up, hopefully for the next two customers, who is lined up behind you.
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It wouldn't have bothered me, but most cashiers now expect you to always have at least P10 in loose change in your pockets at any time. Some even glare at you when you can't give out the required loose change. The nerd, as some of my funny sarcastic friends would exclaim. Though I admit that I do have more than P10 in my pockets at any given time (sometimes even P100, please don't kill me), and some of my friends know that and even egg on the cashiers and harass me to cop out the required change whenever THEY buy stuff, and i happen to be with them. Now, I even pay for my friends' stuff!!! Talk about irony that went left field.
I hope this weird habit doesn't ship out to other countries. Otherwise, it would be part of the signs that the end is coming. The whole world will implode with the sheer number of cashiers around the world simultaneously asking you to give them more money when you have given them more than what you were supposed to pay in the first place.
Today I have resolved not to entertain the cashiers' badgering. The last one got a cold "Wala" from me with a languid stare that would stand down even the icy stare of the Man with No Name, or even Clint Eastwood himself, or even Toshiro Mifune (or whoever LOL).
So the next time someone asks you for loose change, tell them "I would give it to you if I had it, which only means I don't have it, so don't ask me, ok?" LOL. That should shut them up, hopefully for the next two customers, who is lined up behind you.
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