When I,ve paid for something and there is a small amount of change for example 1p I expect my change given back..but sometimes find the bus drivers or newsagents etc..seem reluctant to hand it over as though it causes them hassle to hand me back what is due. I wait for them to hand me my cash as I feel its what I am owed...Does anyone else feel annoyed by penny pinchers ?
2007-01-10 23:23:22 · 17 answers · asked by mickey 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I've never thought someone is reluctant to give it to me, but I do feel awkward when I'm waiting and waiting for them to find a penny to give me. I think to myself 'Do I look petty by waiting around for a penny?'
2007-01-10 23:26:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is one of my pet peaves as well. Most establishments will not let you leave without paying the full amount even if it is 1p. Why should I then allow them to keep any amount of change. If you were to multiply that 1p times the number of other people who patronize the same establishment in a chain across the U.S. then the number would be huge. I for one am not going to give it away.
About 30 years ago there was a guy who noticed how people just passed by pennies and so he advertised for people to send them to him as he was trying to put himself thru school. That young man managed to pay for his tuition with the pennies no one cared about.
When tax season comes the I.R.S. won't let you get away without paying every dime, nickel, penny that they feel is owed.
It takes a 100 pennies to make a dollar. Should we then be paid a penny less per hour. Wouldn't that change the face of the individual paycheck?
So, while pennies are seemingly worthless nuisances they absolutely have value.
A Penny saved is a penny earned.
2007-01-10 23:31:38 · answer #2 · answered by GrnApl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually that would bother me, too. I work in retail and no matter how small the change I try to give it back if they're not already bolting for the door, frantic to get back to whatever it is they are doing. Sometimes I'll ask "do you want the penny?" if I'm feeling lazy, but I think they (all "retail" ppl) should give you your change if you want it. enough pennies can add up to a lot of money.
2007-01-10 23:28:22 · answer #3 · answered by Eowyn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean, it is irritating. If they want to charge 1p more then just put the price up by 1p. You are right to expect it returned to you. You know the old saying, look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.
2007-01-11 00:01:04 · answer #4 · answered by gerrifriend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm................ wait for it!
I live in Saudi Arabia where the currency is the Saudi Riyal and the coins are Halalas. Often when awaiting change at a supermarket I will be given a pack of chewing gum instead of the coins. Today we had a small pack of sweets instead, my daughter was most impressed!
My husband often comes home from work, with a banana. On enquiring as to where he got it from, he tells me it's his 'change' from lunch at the works canteen. He's threatened to go in with a hand of bananas to pay for his lunch one day!
I want the money not a pack of gum or a banana!
2007-01-10 23:43:30 · answer #5 · answered by Deborah H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people may think I'm stingy because I wait for my , one or two pence change, but I don't care, I'm a pensioner and my pennies count, for every customer who doesn't get their penny change they are giving extra profit to the businesses and they all ready make enough !!
2007-01-12 13:54:08 · answer #6 · answered by Sierra One 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol I know what you mean sometimes when im in a rush I will walk out without waiting for my penny change but if I wait for it they look at me like im inconveniencing them.
While were on this penny pinching subject why do tramps sit next to cash machines then ask you if you have any change when you have clearly just withdrawn a £20 note???? DER!!!
2007-01-10 23:29:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh that really gets my goat, we have a woman who runs a shop by us and she automatically starts to drop your 1p change in the charity box, I have told her on numerous ocassions that I choose which charity I give to and will not be bullied into it, that I want my 1p chance please because like my mom taught me, penny's make pounds and I intend to save my penny's to make my pounds.
2007-01-11 11:51:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite, i'm now. i discussed 5 cents on the floor and walked previous it, then idea the universe thinks i do not favor money and wont deliver me any better. so i picked it up, 2 days later i got here upon 10 cents,picked it up. a pair days later i got here upon a $20 note, basically on the footpath ,no one round (i could not in any respect save something that could have an proprietor) real tale LOL
2016-12-02 03:05:24 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely. when they say they have no pennies or two pences left to give us change we should really wait for them to get it. would they give us something for 99p if we were 1p short of a pound?
2007-01-10 23:30:23 · answer #10 · answered by Troubled Joe(the ghost of) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋