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Dec 2012
4:36pm, 11 Dec 2012
1,762 posts
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Q Mac
Wriggling Snake's queue lunatics! They know they have a paper, they know it's 60p, they know that's a combination of 50p 10p 20ps etc, but no, let's wait until the end and then get everything out of the bag looking for the right monies!
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Dec 2012
4:49pm, 11 Dec 2012
1,275 posts
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ChristmasWobble
Had one of these on the bus t'other day. She clambered on, asked what the fare was then went delving into her bag for her purse, couldn't find it and eventually stepped aside to let other people board. It wouldn't have been so annoying if I hadn't been stood next to her at the bus stop, waiting, for a good five minutes.
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Dec 2012
4:55pm, 11 Dec 2012
22,755 posts
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Raptors claws are coming to town
That's me, finding out the actual total at the till and ratching through my purse and my pockets and all the compartments of my bag in the hope of being able to hand over the exact amount and offload some shrapnel 
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Dec 2012
10:43am, 12 Dec 2012
607 posts
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Zorba
The "So......" epidemic ( See further back in thread ) has spread from Tv scientists to ALL Tom ,Dick and Harrys being interviewed on the BBC Breakfast sofa .......It was an "expert"on sport for women this morning ....!
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Dec 2012
11:51am, 12 Dec 2012
10,895 posts
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Jason1969
People that can fall asleep anywhere. Those bastards. I should point out it's only jealousy.
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Dec 2012
12:00pm, 12 Dec 2012
7,037 posts
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TRO Saracen
LOL, I remember being behind a queue lunatic in a supermarket queue.
Bill was about £3.50 odd. She got her purse out and began paying, using lowest denomination shrapnel first and working upwards. Each coin was placed on the conveyer belt, leaving the checkout girl to pick it up (which is actaully quite awkward) and keep count of the running total as we inched slowly and painfully towards the overall target.
Naturally, the total fell a little short of what was required, so with a disgusted snort which seemed to suggest it was the checkout girl's fault she got a fiver out.
AAArrrggghhhhh.....
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Dec 2012
12:11pm, 12 Dec 2012
10,897 posts
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Jason1969
Let's have a look at change from a different angle.
Why do self service checkouts have to give me my change in as many coins as possible? 74p should 50p, 20p and 4 2p's. NOT 4 20p's , 10p and 4 pennies.
It doesn't matter how much money the bank of England issues if it all ends up shoved in the bottom of my pocket.
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Dec 2012
12:18pm, 12 Dec 2012
7,038 posts
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TRO Saracen
Ah yes but with self service tills you can use a £20 note to pay for something costing 15p, and not get glared at as if you've handed over a turd and you don't get asked, with withering contempt: 'got anything smaller?'.
They are non judgemental, and for that I love them and reject any attempt to have then on this thread.
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Dec 2012
12:19pm, 12 Dec 2012
3,824 posts
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The Teaboy
'Got anything smaller'.
I get that all the time...
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Dec 2012
12:20pm, 12 Dec 2012
314 posts
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Winded
If you were designing a machine that gave change would you have one that gave change in a set formula e.g 1x50 + 1x20+2x2 or one that minimised the amount of staff involvement by recycling the coins people put into it as much as possible? It's an engineering issue; I think there is an algorithm that sets out how the change is made up but it includes managing the resources the machine has.
I know the question was rhetorical; sometimes I justcan't control the inner geek.
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