Shopkeepers
You go in. You want to buy something. You proffer a note.

'Have you not got the right change?'
'No. Sorry. You're a shopkeeper. You run a mainly cash-based business. I sort of anticipated that you might have made some provision for the fact that not everyone will come in with exactly the right money.'

Grumble grumble....

God help you if you want to use a card...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:24, 8 replies)

And why?
WHY for the love of everything sacred do they insist on handing you a receipt for the tiniest of transactions? I've started telling shop-keepers I don't want them and they always look surprised and hurt. It's just a lighter for fuck's sake! Do I look autistic?!
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:32, closed)

a legal requirement
I believe, to stop tax fraud among other things. And if they've gone to the trouble of complying with the law, it seems wasteful when you say you don't want it.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sun 30 May 2010, 13:24, closed)

Bus drivers
are bloody terrible for this. You can't change a cocking fiver? When the fare is £1.30? That's no different than paying for a pint with a twenty-pound note, something pubs routinely manage to cope with.

So the logical conclusion: pubs are better than buses. I think.
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Fri 28 May 2010, 15:48, closed)

That's why bus prices
are never (well, rarely- especially the higher cost tickets) simply 2-coin transactions. Say it's £1.80- you stick £2 in the box and forget about the other £0.20. To do it correctly, the minimum number of coins you'd need is a £1, 50p, 20p and 10p.
Which means that when you inevitably miss out one coin you're forced to give them more than the ticket price.

It's almost thievery, but not quite.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 28 May 2010, 22:09, closed)

I concur
Pubs are definitely better than buses
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 28 May 2010, 22:38, closed)

Hmmmmmmm
Wow, you and everyone whose replied has obviously never worked in a shop, or maybe they did and are just arses. How many transactions do they have to go through per day...HUNDREDS, maybe a thousand. When people keep paying for £1.30 worth of stuff with a £20 note change runs out pretty damn quick.

The reason they ask you if you have the right change is because 9 times out of 10 you do. You just couldn't be bothered to fish it out of your wallet. You are most likely the same n00bs that complain when you get handed loads of coins in change because other n00bs have robbed all the fivers by paying with £20s for £1.30 worth of shopping.
(djflayva, Sun 30 May 2010, 5:01, closed)

This!

(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 21:05, closed)

You both want to have a chat to...
... the people who make ATMs, then, and get them to issue people's cash in coins.

When people have just taken money out, or are buying a large item, they're going to use a note (shock horror!). By all means ask if they have the right change, but don't get shitty about it if not, is all I ask...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 3 Jun 2010, 10:57, closed)