Thursday, May 16, 2013

A constant tussle over livestock

The booklet cost £2.50 and I gave the lady at the desk a £5 note. A proper one with a picture of Dame May Whitty on the back of it. The lady at the desk rummaged in the coin tray for a considerable time. A good half of the tray was covered in pound coins and there was a mound of fifty pence pieces just to one side. But still she rummaged in the coin tray for a considerable time. Reluctantly she palmed a fifty pence piece then rummaged a bit more. In the end she gave me an assortment of 10p coins, some 5p coins, a twenty and the fifty pence piece. Scores of pound coins to give as change and she gave me two hundredweight of half-chewed threepenny bits. You have to wonder about some people.

4 comments:

dinahmow said...

Indeed. Especially the check-out chicks who get confused when you give them a big with correct change.

Gadjo Dilo said...

What was the booklet about? She probably thinks you won't be a repeat customer, so she palm her fiddling small change off on you.

libby said...

She was waiting for you to say 'keep the change'.....

Kevin Musgrove said...

Strictly speaking, it was a programme. For a Bill Bailey gig.