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Long story of stubborn coppery hell
Years of collecting coppers in a big jar until it finally reached the top. Conscientious as I am, I separate all the different denominations into different bags before toddling down to my local branch.
At the counter I pop down the first bag (full of 2 pences): "Could you change this for notes please?
"Sorry sir, you’ll have to put £1 of 2 pences into each of these little bags" - to which I am presented a handful of little plastic bags. A ball ache but fair enough. I take the time to count 50 two pences into a bag and hand it over before starting on the next one.
Whilst counting, I notice the clerk opens the first little bag and pours the contents into a counting machine which rattles through the lot in under a second, confirming I had counted correctly. Hmm, I spot a potential time saving solution:
"Can’t you use the counting machine to count the money and save me doing it ?"
"No sir, you have to put the money into the little bags".
"but you take it out the little bags and count it anyway."
"I’m sorry sir, you have to put the money into the little bags"
Pah ! Bollocks to this. I stick my hand into the big bag of 2ps, grab a handful and stick them in a plastic bag:
"There you go that’s a pound"
"No it isn’t. You didn’t count it"
"Yes I did. Why don’t you check with your machine."
To which the frowning clerk pours the contents into the machine and tells me its only 88p. I grab another random amount of 2 pences and add them to the little bag.
"Can you check again please ?"
"You didn’t count it"
"Yes I did. Why don’t you check ?"
And so I spent the best part of an hour in what became a war of attrition. Each time I grabbed a random amount of coinage - each time she would count it and tell me it was the incorrect amount, each time I would grab another random amount... She didn’t want to break procedure and I wanted to prove my point. Again. And Again. And Again.
Got there in the end but I cant help noticing some people are so stubborn.
(Thu 16th Jul 2009, 15:34, More)
Long story of stubborn coppery hell
Years of collecting coppers in a big jar until it finally reached the top. Conscientious as I am, I separate all the different denominations into different bags before toddling down to my local branch.
At the counter I pop down the first bag (full of 2 pences): "Could you change this for notes please?
"Sorry sir, you’ll have to put £1 of 2 pences into each of these little bags" - to which I am presented a handful of little plastic bags. A ball ache but fair enough. I take the time to count 50 two pences into a bag and hand it over before starting on the next one.
Whilst counting, I notice the clerk opens the first little bag and pours the contents into a counting machine which rattles through the lot in under a second, confirming I had counted correctly. Hmm, I spot a potential time saving solution:
"Can’t you use the counting machine to count the money and save me doing it ?"
"No sir, you have to put the money into the little bags".
"but you take it out the little bags and count it anyway."
"I’m sorry sir, you have to put the money into the little bags"
Pah ! Bollocks to this. I stick my hand into the big bag of 2ps, grab a handful and stick them in a plastic bag:
"There you go that’s a pound"
"No it isn’t. You didn’t count it"
"Yes I did. Why don’t you check with your machine."
To which the frowning clerk pours the contents into the machine and tells me its only 88p. I grab another random amount of 2 pences and add them to the little bag.
"Can you check again please ?"
"You didn’t count it"
"Yes I did. Why don’t you check ?"
And so I spent the best part of an hour in what became a war of attrition. Each time I grabbed a random amount of coinage - each time she would count it and tell me it was the incorrect amount, each time I would grab another random amount... She didn’t want to break procedure and I wanted to prove my point. Again. And Again. And Again.
Got there in the end but I cant help noticing some people are so stubborn.
(Thu 16th Jul 2009, 15:34, More)