*Sir, you gave me too much.
Tender it into your machine, it is magic. You will give me a ten and two quarters back.
*How did you know that?
I did school.
Worse, if you tell them how much you are giving them so to not get a bunch of coins back and they screw that up by not counting correctly and you get 99 cents back.
I did something similar to that the other day at the farmer’s market. The bill was something like $9.46 so I gave her a ten dollar bill and .46 in change. She had to use her calculator!! But she was very pleasant.
Been there, done that.
Kids today......
I’ve also noticed that when I give older cashiers odd change like that, they don’t even blink. they know. It’s only the younger ones who don’t get it.
When we homeschooled, I would not let my kids use calculators until jr. high, when they started algebra. I insisted they know how to do the math in their heads FIRST.
Calculators were used only as time savers because the equations were getting too long.