re: #109 Timothy Watson

It’s also the way my mother always used when she used to cashier. Say a purchase was $13.59 and she was given a $20 by a customer, she would count up the charge by starting at $13.59 until she got to $20.

I love the look I get from cashiers when I give them odd payment amounts. Initial sort of “crap - why are you handing me change in addition to the $20?”. And it is obviously not exact change for the amount as well. So they punch it into the cash register and it comes back as something like a $5 and three quarters. And then I get the look like I pulled off some sort of wizardry, sometimes mixed with the “you’re some kind of smartass, aren’t you?” expression.

:)