i brought this up to my friends tonight and they thought i was odd for ever caring/thinking about this, but when i worked in retail, i thought about it all the time

i always hoped someone would make a purchase of 13.59, and pay with a 50. The change would then be 36.41 consisiting of 1 of each currency in the cash drawer...1 twenty, 1 ten, 1 five, 1 one, 1 quarter, 1 dime, 1 nickel, and 1 penny (i guess if someone makes a purchase of 13.59 and pays with a 100 you could give them a 50 too, but thats just too bizarre to happen)

i don't remember ever having the fortune of this event, but 36.41 is what i call the magic number of cash registering.

anyone? am i the only one?

1/20/2006 10:20:16 PM

Get a real job you dirty hippie

1/20/2006 10:25:53 PM

Interesting point.

1/20/2006 10:40:04 PM

You must have had a boring job to think about stuff like this . . .

1/20/2006 11:07:25 PM

^have you ever worked retail?

1/20/2006 11:08:51 PM

I thought about this too, and I did get to do it with both a 50 and a 100. I worked at a Food Lion when I was in high school for like 2 1/2 years. I felt odd thinking about it, but now I don't!

1/20/2006 11:10:33 PM

i'm kinda sad that i couldn't be this entertained with something so.... simple.

1/21/2006 12:26:33 AM

working retail...you think of the most bizarre stuff cuz you're brain can be on pause for the whole time...

so glad that i work in a professional office now

1/21/2006 12:51:47 AM

you're not alone, i worked a gas station for a while, that and many things go thu your mind in a job like that, its sorta happend sometimes and i always say something to the customer, they dont care

1/21/2006 12:57:02 AM

i think i might just go to a store, buy something for 13.59, pay with a 50...and wait...make eye contact, see if they are part of the few. haha...if some kid was like, "dude, you've made my day with this purchase" i'd be stoked

1/21/2006 1:01:06 AM

^the trick is getting just the right amount pre-tax. and i don't even know what sales tax rate is these days, sad to say...

1/21/2006 1:09:51 AM

ive worked in retail for the past 7 years or so, and yes, i agree, you do come up with the msot random shit to do when you get bored, eventho ive never thought that hard on the whole change thing, i can see how u came up with it

1/21/2006 1:13:26 AM

I thought of something similar when I worked at a restaurant.

1/21/2006 1:13:26 AM

the title of this thread is perfect

1/21/2006 1:13:35 AM

I used to know how much the most you could have in change without being able to make change for a dollar was

its like 1.34

1/21/2006 1:20:35 AM

ha ha, you are a nerd

1/21/2006 1:20:51 AM

I have worked at eckerd for 3 years, thought about it, but it has never happened =(

1/21/2006 2:28:28 AM

i got 86.41 in change once, but i got 4 20's

1/21/2006 2:53:50 AM

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"working retail...you think of the most bizarre stuff cuz you're brain can be on pause for the whole time..."

When I worked retail, I actually worked. I was moving constantly for the 8-10 hour shifts I worked.

The magic number for a cash register is 0, which is how on/off balance you are at the end of the day. That number though would be interesting if I ever got that kind of change.

1/21/2006 7:40:24 AM

I think I sold a product for $13.25 last night and the subtotal was $14.25 it raised my eyebrow... but I wasn't actually working, I was just hanging around dad's store.

[Edited on January 21, 2006 at 10:15 AM. Reason : wasn't]

1/21/2006 10:14:22 AM

leave it to a Jew to be fascinated by such a trivial occurrence.

1/21/2006 10:41:48 AM

yes, i actually have thought about this, but i usually think about just the $.41 change variant

1/21/2006 1:30:20 PM

I think 12.70 would be the pretax number

1/21/2006 2:46:42 PM

depends on what kind of products they're buying

1/21/2006 3:04:28 PM

I passed the time by arguing with the customers. They always did dumb shit.

Always right my ass.

1/21/2006 4:50:54 PM

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"yes, i actually have thought about this, but i usually think about just the $.41 change variant"

for some reason, I always liked counting out the 0.41

1/21/2006 5:46:16 PM

^me too. we are pretty sad.

1/21/2006 9:17:00 PM

Retail is for suckers

1/21/2006 9:42:55 PM

and what do you do?

1/21/2006 9:49:20 PM

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"for some reason, I always liked counting out the 0.41"

Quote :

"me too. we are pretty sad."

Yeah I only thought about it change-wise, but more often about what change would cause the most coins, like 0.94/0.99.

1/21/2006 10:13:23 PM