Huh, actually, something like that happened to me last week. I did my shopping, packed everything away, the cashier gave me the total. And for once, I had cash on me. I was clearing out my game collection at the time, and I'd just come from trading in some stuff in at CEX.
And I figured, hey, when's the last time you actually had cash on you AND it was just enough cash to cover a shopping trip? Definitely not since before Covid times, at least. And hell, I really can't remember paying with cash like that in my adult life, it's pretty much always been by card most of the time, and it's probably going to be that way going forwards, right?
So, what the hell, I reached into my wallet and whipped out the notes. Even made a grand, dramatic gesture of it, locking eyes with the cashier, and flourishing the cash into the air before handing it to him.
And he was a youngish looking kid, too, so when he took the money he fumbled a bit with the till commands and counting it all out into trays and doing the mental arithmetic for change, etc. You could tell most people just paid by card these days by how he wasn't all that used to it, and had to recheck himself.
And yeah, as he was doing maths, my gaze drifted to the clock on the wall. And I won't lie, the guy took his time. I didn't mean to judge him, but as the second hand ticked by, I did think maybe it'd be faster if I just paid by car. And after like, fourty seconds or so he looks back up at me and says
"I'm sorry sir, but you're just a little short of the total, I'm afraid."
I was still looking at the clock, so I was a little distracted. I asked him by how much I was short. And he looked up at the clock too, with an akward, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take so long, please don't go Karen on me" look on his face. Anyway, it was 4:39 in the afternoon. And he looked back to me and he said:
"I'm gonna need about tree fiddy"
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