>> Obnoxious, but I like to be deliberately slow getting out change when
>> I'm paying cash. Usually the clerk gets in a hurry and keys the bill
>> amount and just totals out before I ever get out the $0.03 it would
>> take to get me back a nice pile of silver. Nothing brings a store to a
>> halt faster then watching them try to make change in their heads! :)
>
>What is amazing is how few cashiers can handle the following circumstance:
>
>Total bill:  6.38.  I hand the cashier 21.38.  They look at me like I've
>lost my mind - they can't figure out why I'm handing them the "extra
>dollar".   Like I said, it's amazing how many cashiers don't get this one.
>
>Even more fun is when the total is something like 5.98 and you had them
>$11.03.  (Ten dollar bill, one dollar bill, and those 3 pennies which
>are rattling around in your pocket).   Since it involves a carry (or
>borrow) or two, I'll give most people some slack on this on.

Reminds me of a story my grandfather used to tell, about going into a store 
for some clothes pegs. This would have been just before or just after WW2.

Grandfather: I'll have a gross of clothes pegs please.
Dumb assistant: Sorry, we don't have them in a gross, but we do have them in 
12 dozen.

Anyone familiar with old weights and measures will know that a gross and 12 
dozen are the same quantity. And they say that schooling is going downhill 
these days ... 

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