Thursday, June 12th, 2008...10:29 am
#7: Don’t Count Out Exact Change
You’ve been there: In line behind the middle-aged woman who says, “Wait a minute! I think I have the exact change!,” 
and then proceeds to rummage through the recesses of her bag in search of the precise assortment of quarters and dimes and nickels and pennies that make up the price of her knee-high hose or chicken pot pie.
The reasoning seems to be that, if you pay for something with exact change, you at one stroke declutter your purse and get whatever you’re buying for less. You’ve traded in all those heavy, jangly spare coins for a nourishing meat pie! And acted like you’re doing the poor cashier a big fat favor in the process.
But listen, change is inevitable. No matter how many pennies you get rid of, more will always come your way. And you’re just annoying everybody in the meantime.
4 Comments
June 18th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Pam
Okay, now I admit it – reading your blog is downright painful. I am realizing I must be acting like I am 156. Note (if I don’t forget) — ask my kids if I am doing anything NOT oldladyish. And, will put ALL my change in the cup at Dunkin Donuts tomorrow!
September 10th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
January 7th, 2010 at 1:01 am
Um, don’t pay with cash, you codger!
March 6th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Old(er) people — like my mother — remember a time when the small amounts of money represented by coins were actually worth something.
An older person will wonder why youngsters (use of that word will age you faster than anything!) don’t understand the value of money, as they “take a penny/leave a penny.”
What the seniors fail to grasp is that the kids DO understand the value of money — 27 cents doesn’t buy anything anymore and is barely worth picking up off the sidewalk.
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