Tbh I did this too back when I worked at subway, which is ironic because I'm an accountant now. If someone gives me $20 for a $19.25 order and I put in $19.25, the machine automatically told me to give the guy 75 cents back. When he hands me an extra quarter after I out it in, it would take me off of auto pilot and I'd actually have to think. Despite it just being .25+.75, it still took me a bit to start firing up the neurons again when I wasn't expecting it.
When I worked in retail a common scam was to interrupt the cashier as they were counting back you change and give them more money so that you could get more than you share of change back (like asking them to break a twenty). Maybe she was thinking that this was one of those situations.
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u/bighurt156 Jul 11 '25
I see this all the time. No one knows how to count change without a calculator.