[Jeff Chandler]

I always carry a handful of change with me into a store and often confuse the hell out of clerks and I count out change along with the bills I hand them.

I hope you're not one of those old farts who waits until the very end of the process to start looking for change to be slowly counted out so the change back will come to exactly a quarter or two, AFTER fishing out your coupons and discussing with the clerk which ones are still current and which ones have expired, necessitating a visit from the manager to straighten things out, all while the line of waiting customers grows to three or four deep.

The only thing worse is waiting until the end of the process, then starting to rummage around in your purse for the check book that's in there. Somewhere.

[Larry Lucido]

No!

I go out to my car and get the change. I just say “wait here, I’ll be right back.”

[fhayek]

Oh, the checkbook lady! She has to write the check, THEN, she has to go to the check register and record it. Then her pen doesn’t write...