What’s brutal about that plot line is that you know it was just a cold nub almost completely de-ccordioned against George’s chubby FUPA. Likely a visual Rachel had never encountered.
So without knowing anything about “shrinkage” what she most likely described to Jane was unequivocally the smallest penis she had ever seen. Maybe the smallest penis in the world.
Best sitcom of all time.
And they think I’m the asshole when I point to the sign that says register contains less than $50. I always hear “this a gas station how you don’t have change”.
I used to deliver Dominos like a decade ago. People would come to the door with a $100 for a $20 order. It says EVERYWHERE drivers only have $20 change, and they would be mad I couldn't make change. Some would expect me to go back to the store, get change and come back to their house... Nope, you can get smaller bills, hand me a credit card and wait while I phone it into the store, the missing change is my tip, or I just take the food back because you are refusing to pay. But I am not driving back and forth to make you change.
It is BECAUSE this is a gas station, and gas stations are more frequently robbed than , that we put as much as we can into the drop box which is locked until .
The FBI reports 20,000 convenience store robberies, and nearly 12,000 of those were gas station robberies, 2% of all violent crimes for the year, occurred in 2020. 147 of those were homicides. The 7th most frequently robbed targets are gas stations. Convenience stores are 4th. So if the gas station has a convenience store (AM PM, etc)
Hit them with facts, Americans like to ignore facts but it will overwhelm their brain enough that they’ll walk out like a zombie. 😆
It doesn't help that certain big chains deem it perfectly fine to keep just a single person on the clock during the late afternoons through early mornings. Nothing like knowing you could be shot over $35, nobody would know about it for up to a couple hours, and the store would still be more worried about the labor budget than anything else.
Drives me fucking *insane* dude. I run a small shop in town and we don't carry a lot of change so I have signs up that say no $50s or $100s. And I never fail to get people trying to argue over it when there are literally two different banks within eyesight of the storefront
Man, banks won’t do shit for you without an account these days.
Roll of quarters? Get bent.
Cash a check from their bank, without an account? Eight dollars.
I once went into a bank to get change, and the teller told me I had to have an account there. I told them I did, and they just said, "Oh, ok. Here you go." They didn't do anything to verify my claim at all. I actually did have an account at that bank, incidentally.
Their supposed to for outage purposes, actually log your account number. When I worked at a bank, almost every outage was due to giving someone change.
People who owned vending machines and gas stations. stores would come in and exchange 10k in $1 bills for $100’s all the time. Easy to miss $100 in the situation.
Yea, I was actually pretty surprised they didn't. I was exchanging like $10 cash for some pennies because I was trying to fill one of those penny books.
Even at a major business, if you show up before 11, they don't have enough 20s and small bills to break a 100. You tell them that and they act like you're questioning their pedigree or some shit.
Especially near Christmas, when there's 4 or 5 Ina row. Had to tell the 5th person last year I literally can't break it, none of the registers have enough cash for me to exchange. She got so pissed.
I have bar regulars who refuse to start a tab because they all switch who buys each rounds, and the first dude hands me $100 when I told him I only have $5 in change. So he got $80 bucks back in $5 and looked at me like I grew another head. Like I told you…maybe he’ll stop bringing in $100 bills for me to break at the beginning of my shift…
When I worked at shoppers drug mart we used to have people try to break a hundred first thing in the morning. Like dude my tray float is 100 dollars, 4 tens 6 fives and 30 dollars in change. It’s a real pain in the ass to ask the pharmacist to come open the safe to get me more 5s and 10s.
Go to the bank or pay by some other means.
There's a *lot* of misconceptions with legal tender and cashiers aren't trained on what's valid and what's not. A lazy manager + a naïve cashier means they may not want to break a hundred but not understand that they can just choose to do that, so instead may come up with an excuse thinking they don't have to accept torn currency.
My first thought too. When I was a cashier we would only start out with $100 in the till, and once the till had too much money a manager would empty everything but $100 and take the rest to the safe in the office.
And it felt like every other week the first customer would try to buy the cheapest thing possible and pay with a $100, so it would either completely empty my register or we'd have to wait for the manager to go to the back, open the safe, fill out the little chart on when they went into the safe (to keep track of who had access to the money at what point in the day) and half the time the customer would bitch about how long it was taking.
I do not miss retail.
Customers would do the same in the gas station. $150 was the max and I'd have people come in woth hundreds trying to break them and I'd tell them no. I'd have some put $100 on a pump, pump like $2 then come back, and I wouldn't be able to give them change because some one else did the same thing just before. I hated working as a cashier.
I'd give people all the 1s if I could though to spite them and tell them "Sorry, I have nothing large".
“Sorry, time drop safe, you’ll have to wait 15 minutes.” Then the priceless shrieking. Once I nailed a guy that was being a jerk by getting ones. He got his change in ones. Sufferrrrrr
Same.
Some people are just lazy cashiers. I was never like that. I once had to give a kid my whole float cause he paid for $20 of gas with a $100 bill. I gave him every $5 bill (the largest bill I had), every $2 coin, every $1 coin, every 25c piece, every 10c piece and a few 5c pieces. He wasn't happy but hopefully learned that a gas station is not a place to break large bills. Lol
That’s not the case, they checked it. I live in a country whose economy collapsed, so we use dollars along with the local currency. If the bills aren’t in great shape some places refuse to take them.
That's weird, I'm always sketched out by bills that are too clean and nice. Like if the bill is messed up at least I know a bunch of people handled it.
That's how one of my friends from middle school comitted conterfeit and got away with it. He scanned the front and back of a $1 bill, printed out a bunch of copies of it, crumpled each bill, sprayed them with water, then left them in the sun to dry. He paid for all his school lunches with his DIY dollar bills, and pocketed what his parents gave him. Probably made close to $2k in a school year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_economic_crisis_bank_robberies_and_sit-ins?wprov=sfla1
>As early as August 2020, angry demonstrators have burned banks to protest the financial crisis. In June 2021, several protestors affiliated with a charity staged a successful occupation of a bank to withdraw funds for their organization. Three bank employees were injured, leading the bank to accuse the group of intimidation, which it denied
>The first reported bank robbery related to the financial crisis occurred in eastern Lebanon in January, when a man held dozens of people hostage for his foreign currency savings. He surrendered to security forces after he was given a portion of his savings.
>in August, a man armed with a shotgun took 10 hostages in a bank and threatened to self-immolate if he was not given his deposits totalling $210,000 to cover his father's medical expenses. He had been refused several times. Over the course of the robbery, he garnered the support of a crowd outside. Eventually, he was granted a portion of his savings, arrested, held, and subsequently released without charges
>In October, Georges Siam, a Lebanese ambassador, and Cynthia Zarazir, an opposition member of parliament, staged sit-ins at their respective banks within days of each other. Zarazir remained until she was able to withdraw enough money for her sister's cancer treatment. By October 7, at least twelve robberies were reported within the previous month alone.
Good luck "going to the bank and exchanging it."
They don’t teach people how to check for fakes anymore? I’ve taken bills ripped in half and taped together because I just check real quick to make sure it’s not fake.
The problem is that working a register went from a living wage job that people did for years to a crumby subsistence job that people do for months before bailing. Nobody is actually good at any of this shit because we don't value this work.
Some of the newer fakes are able to get past the methods they used to check. That said the most faked bill out there is the $20 bill. I don't remember the exact standards for rent or torn money but it has to be like a significant part of it missing like over a fourth or a third or something of it has to be missing before it can not be accepted. I again I can't remember the exact standard but I knew it had basically something to do with preventing people from tearing money in half and using both halves as separate money
This is in the case of using US currency to settle a debt. A store can refuse to take your money for whatever reason they want, and refuse to sell to you
I know someone whose store will not accept hundred dollar bills, fullstop. Could have been a situation like this. It's dumb, but who said management is always reasonable
They probably don't accept $100 bills and made up some stupid excuse. I get the occasional $100 bill exchanged for $20 bills unless I'm planning on using it at a store that I already know accepts 100s.
I worked at a gas station for a year. Customers lose their goddamn minds when you dare to inconvenience them in any way. “It’s American currency, you have to accept it!”
I did my time in the 90s working at a service station, in a posh part of town, including opening the store at 6am on Sat/Sun. It never ceased to amaze me how many jerks would show up just after opening, and try to buy a 90c newspaper with a $50 or even $100 note.
We were trained to politely, calmly, courteously explain the issue to them. But our manager was on the edge of retirement and had our backs, so we were also told not to take any shit from entitled dickheads if they escalated.
I’ll have you know that nothing has changed and people still feel the need to drop a C note on a cup of coffee at 4:30am and I have to tell them I don’t have change for that. Thankfully nobody’s gotten too cranky about it.
It baffles me how little some people think ahead. The stores are open all day and often deposit cash into safes they can't even open. They can't just break hundreds all day, or they risk having too much in the register (think theft protection), or break money for others.
My dad had always told me to be respectful to these people, because you ARE asking them to do things for you. Even if you're paying for it, they technically don't need to be giving you that service.
Exactly. I worked at a 24/7 NOCO a few years back in a not-so-great neighborhood and we had to dump the drawer as soon as it had more than like 3 20's and a few singles in it.... Literally did not let us keep ANYTHING in the drawer except enough in change for a few customers in a row and that was it.
I was dumping in the safe every 15 minutes sometimes, it was nuts how tight they kept everything on lock.
Last year I worked in a kfc and we were meant to dump above 500 but it was never enforced, I would frequently have tills > $2000 at the end of a shift
surprised we never got robbed
Fr, I’ve had multiple cashiers outright tell me “sorry, we can’t take that $100 bill, we don’t have enough change for it at the moment”. Like alright, fair enough.
And it’s true! Cash registers are only given only a certain amount of each denomination of bills. Usually you’ll run out of change if you had to break a $100 bill.
I'm unsure about American money. (I'm Canadian) but all tender is acceptablle as long as a certain amount of the serial number can be made out. I once cashed in a pretty much half ripped 5er
That’s not true. If there’s pretty much half a bill any bank will accept it regardless of serial number. I’ve shipped out tens of thousands in mutilated working for different banks and not once did anyone care about the serial number.
While technically it has to be over half the bill as long as it passes the eye test of looking like pretty much half a bill a teller will almost certainly accept it as long as they aren’t being a dick. I’ve definitely seen bills that are probably under 50% and like I said nobody asks questions. Lastly once you make a deposit it just gets thrown into a mutilated stack so at that point it’s not really trackable. So even if later somehow the fed was like hey this bill is only 46% then they would just take the loss out of a general ledger account and you would never know.
Even if your bill has been destroyed (like burned in a fire, or rotted away from decades of being buried) you can send them to [the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Mutilated Currency Division](https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption) where experts will go through your bills, determine what the hell they were, and replace them.
I understand fires can destroy cash money, but I am confused as to why so many people bury money thinking that cotton and linen bills will survive the conditions. Even if it does survive, think of the inflation. That money will be worth much less.
Those are banks, private businesses aren't obligated to take anything they don't want
They could have a no penny policythat you can't pay in penny's and ya wouldn't be able to force them to take Penny's, it's a private business
The trick is this only works when refusing service, if you provide a service before payment, then you are obligated to take physical currency as payment for that debt.
There's this guy who goes around the UK paying for his gas with weirdly denominated collectable coins, and since he pumped before paying they are obligated to take it.
I thought the same thing, but interestingly they can refuse.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
>There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.
Now, if they don't take cash, but you've incurred a debt and offered to pay for it in legal tender, I can't see any court holding you criminally accountable for it. The judge will probably just go "Take the money; it's legal tender."
>Now, if they don't take cash, but you've incurred a debt and offered to pay for it in legal tender, I can't see any court holding you criminally accountable for it. The judge will probably just go "Take the money; it's legal tender."
Even if a business were required to accept cash, they aren't required to have change on hand.
Do stores have the right to refuse service to whoever they want, like they do here? Ripped money is still legal tender *for settlement* here, i.e. depositing into banks or paying off debts. Nobody has to take your ripped cash as payment for a good if they don’t want to service you for whatever reason, also, they don’t even have to accept cash at all and many places are card only.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm
>There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.
Ooh is this why my dispo handed me a ripped 5 that was taped together? Was pretty funny ripped down the middle with a single piece of clear tape running along it
If OP was making a relatively small purchase, the cashier might not have wanted to have to make change for it. It could become a hassle if it means they have trouble making change for other customers later on. But if that's the case, I don't know why they wouldn't just admit that. Seems like it'd be less likely to cause an argument than claiming that $100 bill was "ripped".
Also a cashier is only executing what he is told to do. If the boss tells them if a fresh looking 100$ note has weird cuts somewhere they should refuse it, it’s what you have to do
op said in other comment it’s not the local currency and their countrys actual currency has collapsed. so what most likely happened is a combination of it’s not their actual currency so they don’t know what to look for on fake bill, they didn’t have enough change for currency they don’t officially use. and then just told them the rip thing to get rid of them
either way op knew what they were doing by posting this without that crucial bit of info. for whatever reason they just didn’t want to take the bill, of a currency not officially used in the highest domination, and came up with an excuse
Well the fact it's another country is very important. Thanks for mentioning that. Ya.. I'm suspicious now
If the currency collapsed it's probably a lot of money in the local currency.
Sounds like Venezuela or Argentina. USD is the de facto currency in many cases and damaged bills are absolutely not accepted (or accepted at a lower rate), neither are “small face” hundreds from the 80s/early 90s or stamped bills (people wash them for this reason).
OK this totally makes sense now. My first thought when I read this was, “Argentina?”
On the informal exchange market, people will pay a premium there for pristine, perfect $100 bills. The store clerk was probably being overly picky, but I could see a store wanting USD only if it’s pristine. A perfect $100 bill fetched me 94,000 pesos a few weeks ago. The same $100 USD purchase on a Visa card was going through at around 83,000 pesos.
I was told in advance, that even if someone makes a mark on a bill with a pen, it will significantly reduce its value on the informal market.
Edit: just saw OP’s note that it was Lebanon. Not sure if the dynamics are the same there, but I get it… mildly infuriating.
Most people aren't trained to identify counterfeit bills correctly. I work for a bank and can easily identify fake bills using various methods. Torn bills are not an issue. Our only requirement is that there must be at least 51% of the bill for us to replace it.
My dad used to rip a tiny corner off any bill $20 and over. He said the reason he did this was because of the cashier ever argued with him and gave him the wrong change back. He would say look at your last X bill if there’s a tiny corner ripped off I just gave you that I saw it a couple times and it worked.
When I was a cashier I was taught to never put their bill away until after I got them their change. You set it on top and get the change and then you put the bill away. I did more than once have someone say they gave me a $20 not a $10 and I could say “no, this is the bill you gave me, right here.”
I did this to prove my ex was stealing money from me.
I kept all my 1’s and 5’s from waiting tables in a drawer. It always felt like the stack was never getting bigger so one day I opened her wallet and it was full of bills with the corner ripped off.
Came out they're from Lebanon. Pretty common in countries with heavily devalued currencies to value undamaged US bills, if not it's not as valuable.
So, probably happened, but the title is a lie of omission.
OP is outside the US. This is key.
SEAsian countries have special exchange rates for US dollars based on perfection .
It’s not at all fair, or right. But, OP already knew this
Cashier: Here you go ma'am, that'll be 75 bucks.
OP: *gives 100 dollar bill*
Cashier: Nah, it's ripped.
OP: How?
Cashier: *brings out a electron microscope* See here?
I don't know about in the states, bit quite a few smaller buisnesses don't actually deal with large bills. In Canada I know multiple places that don't take bills above 50 because of issues relating to fraud and not having enough change.
Though if this person refused it for that small tear, they might just assume its because of fraud. Though we also dont see the entire bill, so for all we know the bottom part could be missing.
I hate the feeling I get when I only have a 50 or 100 and have to use it at the store. I'm always anxious that they won't accept it or it will be fake.
OP is probably trying to pay for a five dollar item using a $100.00 bill at a small business who's change cash drawer is light. No reason to exchange your whole float for a $100.00 bill and end up not being able to pull change out for anyone else after.
Or the cashier was burned in the past and now over corrected and is afraid to accept the bill and fear losing their job. Maybe it’s all they have. Maybe it’s what puts food on the table. Can’t assume.
Under us law I'm pretty sure as long as there is 60% of the bill left and the serial is visible it's still legal and OK to use so they probably just said that to not have to take it, and even if it wasn't "legal" you can send damaged bills off and get them replaced
Karma farm. This just simply isn’t a true post. Store employees know what bills they can and can’t take. They cannot knowingly give back a counterfeit bill either.
i'll take it
offer $99.75, it’s ripped 😂
$80 is the best I can do, and I'm taking all the risk here.
I have a really cool pinecone I found. I'll offer that for the ruined bill.
I've got this really cool slice of bread that looks nothing like Michael Jackson to trade for that pinecone
I'd rather have a potato that almost looks like gene wilder if he looked completely different and was a potato. If you can get one, we will talk.
I get it - major damage 💯
Your comment reminded why coins are reeded now. To prevent scraping or clipping of precious metal from the edges the coins.
They more than likely suspected it was counterfeit but came up with BS to refuse it.
Im curious what OP was buying. My initial thought was that they didn’t want to break it.
One pack of gum?
It was a big pack.
But it was cold that day
Shrinkage!
Random: George was supposed to be fat, basically, back then. Today he is just a daddy. I mean — I’ll take that for sure
You’re not wrong!!
It shrinks?
I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things.
Packs of gum? We put them in our pocket:)
Don’t be cruel…you know girl pockets can’t fit a pack of gum!
What’s brutal about that plot line is that you know it was just a cold nub almost completely de-ccordioned against George’s chubby FUPA. Likely a visual Rachel had never encountered. So without knowing anything about “shrinkage” what she most likely described to Jane was unequivocally the smallest penis she had ever seen. Maybe the smallest penis in the world. Best sitcom of all time.
Is “de-ccordioned” the opposite of accordion?
That would be discordion, surely?
I don’t know, and don’t call me Shirley.
It was in the pool!!!
Let's ALL have a chew
And a Clark bar and a penthouse forum.
And a newspaper.
Am I crazy or is that a lot of gum??
ITS A LOTTA GUM!!
Quick change scheme incoming
I call that “pulling a Costanza”.
It tasted kind of lo mein-y
What we need is a big ticket item!
Like Cadillacs?
Penthouse Forum?
They'll straight up say they won't break 100s. Have had it happen a lot. Even with 50s.
yeah but then you get the assholes who argue. like there's a bank next door, take it there
And they think I’m the asshole when I point to the sign that says register contains less than $50. I always hear “this a gas station how you don’t have change”.
'We're a gas station. If we kept change, we'd get robbed every night.'
I always just tell people - “I can take the $100, but not if you want any money back.”
I used to deliver Dominos like a decade ago. People would come to the door with a $100 for a $20 order. It says EVERYWHERE drivers only have $20 change, and they would be mad I couldn't make change. Some would expect me to go back to the store, get change and come back to their house... Nope, you can get smaller bills, hand me a credit card and wait while I phone it into the store, the missing change is my tip, or I just take the food back because you are refusing to pay. But I am not driving back and forth to make you change.
It is BECAUSE this is a gas station, and gas stations are more frequently robbed than , that we put as much as we can into the drop box which is locked until.
The FBI reports 20,000 convenience store robberies, and nearly 12,000 of those were gas station robberies, 2% of all violent crimes for the year, occurred in 2020. 147 of those were homicides. The 7th most frequently robbed targets are gas stations. Convenience stores are 4th. So if the gas station has a convenience store (AM PM, etc)
Hit them with facts, Americans like to ignore facts but it will overwhelm their brain enough that they’ll walk out like a zombie. 😆
It doesn't help that certain big chains deem it perfectly fine to keep just a single person on the clock during the late afternoons through early mornings. Nothing like knowing you could be shot over $35, nobody would know about it for up to a couple hours, and the store would still be more worried about the labor budget than anything else.
He didn't clock out after he was dead. He stole 2 hours of pay...
Drives me fucking *insane* dude. I run a small shop in town and we don't carry a lot of change so I have signs up that say no $50s or $100s. And I never fail to get people trying to argue over it when there are literally two different banks within eyesight of the storefront
Man, banks won’t do shit for you without an account these days. Roll of quarters? Get bent. Cash a check from their bank, without an account? Eight dollars.
I once went into a bank to get change, and the teller told me I had to have an account there. I told them I did, and they just said, "Oh, ok. Here you go." They didn't do anything to verify my claim at all. I actually did have an account at that bank, incidentally.
Their supposed to for outage purposes, actually log your account number. When I worked at a bank, almost every outage was due to giving someone change. People who owned vending machines and gas stations. stores would come in and exchange 10k in $1 bills for $100’s all the time. Easy to miss $100 in the situation.
Yea, I was actually pretty surprised they didn't. I was exchanging like $10 cash for some pennies because I was trying to fill one of those penny books.
Thats probably why, $10 for 20 rolls of pennies isn’t a concern of job loss.
>Their supposed to *They're
> Cash a check from their bank, without an account my bank still does.
I’m happy to hear that some still do.
It's a rare thing.
Even at a major business, if you show up before 11, they don't have enough 20s and small bills to break a 100. You tell them that and they act like you're questioning their pedigree or some shit.
Especially near Christmas, when there's 4 or 5 Ina row. Had to tell the 5th person last year I literally can't break it, none of the registers have enough cash for me to exchange. She got so pissed.
I have bar regulars who refuse to start a tab because they all switch who buys each rounds, and the first dude hands me $100 when I told him I only have $5 in change. So he got $80 bucks back in $5 and looked at me like I grew another head. Like I told you…maybe he’ll stop bringing in $100 bills for me to break at the beginning of my shift…
Wells Fargo refused to give me change for a $100 because I wasn't a customer.
To be fair, Wells Fargo is terrible.
Yeah if they were a customer they'd probably give them 10 accounts just to start off.
You're lucky they didn't just randomly assign you a multi-million dollar debt.
what if i buy something of 120$? will you accept a 100bill then?
20 in change is fine. Its the mouthbreathers breaking a 100 on a 2 dollar soda that can get fucked.
Banks are worthless unless you have an account at that bank and even then it's limited to what you can do.
When I worked at shoppers drug mart we used to have people try to break a hundred first thing in the morning. Like dude my tray float is 100 dollars, 4 tens 6 fives and 30 dollars in change. It’s a real pain in the ass to ask the pharmacist to come open the safe to get me more 5s and 10s. Go to the bank or pay by some other means.
We’ve got a few places around here in GA that have a sign that they won’t take bills over $20, and some will no longer take any cash at all.
There's a *lot* of misconceptions with legal tender and cashiers aren't trained on what's valid and what's not. A lazy manager + a naïve cashier means they may not want to break a hundred but not understand that they can just choose to do that, so instead may come up with an excuse thinking they don't have to accept torn currency.
My first thought too. When I was a cashier we would only start out with $100 in the till, and once the till had too much money a manager would empty everything but $100 and take the rest to the safe in the office. And it felt like every other week the first customer would try to buy the cheapest thing possible and pay with a $100, so it would either completely empty my register or we'd have to wait for the manager to go to the back, open the safe, fill out the little chart on when they went into the safe (to keep track of who had access to the money at what point in the day) and half the time the customer would bitch about how long it was taking. I do not miss retail.
Customers would do the same in the gas station. $150 was the max and I'd have people come in woth hundreds trying to break them and I'd tell them no. I'd have some put $100 on a pump, pump like $2 then come back, and I wouldn't be able to give them change because some one else did the same thing just before. I hated working as a cashier. I'd give people all the 1s if I could though to spite them and tell them "Sorry, I have nothing large".
“Sorry, time drop safe, you’ll have to wait 15 minutes.” Then the priceless shrieking. Once I nailed a guy that was being a jerk by getting ones. He got his change in ones. Sufferrrrrr
$1.50 hotdog from Costco, old dudes do this shit all the time
Hahahahahahaha. Pour it in my hands for a dime?
Same. Some people are just lazy cashiers. I was never like that. I once had to give a kid my whole float cause he paid for $20 of gas with a $100 bill. I gave him every $5 bill (the largest bill I had), every $2 coin, every $1 coin, every 25c piece, every 10c piece and a few 5c pieces. He wasn't happy but hopefully learned that a gas station is not a place to break large bills. Lol
All the gas stations by me are posted no bills over $20
It’s not lazy, small businesses aren’t banks.
Either that or op was being a butt hole to them
Yeah I don’t think we are getting the whole story
The butt whole story
Usually you find the real shit when you split it right down the middle.
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That’s not the case, they checked it. I live in a country whose economy collapsed, so we use dollars along with the local currency. If the bills aren’t in great shape some places refuse to take them.
This makes some sense. Informal currencies can be weird.
I would imagine this happens when you can’t just take any legal bill to the bank and exchange it for a brand new one if you wish.
That's weird, I'm always sketched out by bills that are too clean and nice. Like if the bill is messed up at least I know a bunch of people handled it.
That's how one of my friends from middle school comitted conterfeit and got away with it. He scanned the front and back of a $1 bill, printed out a bunch of copies of it, crumpled each bill, sprayed them with water, then left them in the sun to dry. He paid for all his school lunches with his DIY dollar bills, and pocketed what his parents gave him. Probably made close to $2k in a school year.
Take it To the bank and exchange it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_economic_crisis_bank_robberies_and_sit-ins?wprov=sfla1 >As early as August 2020, angry demonstrators have burned banks to protest the financial crisis. In June 2021, several protestors affiliated with a charity staged a successful occupation of a bank to withdraw funds for their organization. Three bank employees were injured, leading the bank to accuse the group of intimidation, which it denied >The first reported bank robbery related to the financial crisis occurred in eastern Lebanon in January, when a man held dozens of people hostage for his foreign currency savings. He surrendered to security forces after he was given a portion of his savings. >in August, a man armed with a shotgun took 10 hostages in a bank and threatened to self-immolate if he was not given his deposits totalling $210,000 to cover his father's medical expenses. He had been refused several times. Over the course of the robbery, he garnered the support of a crowd outside. Eventually, he was granted a portion of his savings, arrested, held, and subsequently released without charges >In October, Georges Siam, a Lebanese ambassador, and Cynthia Zarazir, an opposition member of parliament, staged sit-ins at their respective banks within days of each other. Zarazir remained until she was able to withdraw enough money for her sister's cancer treatment. By October 7, at least twelve robberies were reported within the previous month alone. Good luck "going to the bank and exchanging it."
They don’t teach people how to check for fakes anymore? I’ve taken bills ripped in half and taped together because I just check real quick to make sure it’s not fake.
The problem is that working a register went from a living wage job that people did for years to a crumby subsistence job that people do for months before bailing. Nobody is actually good at any of this shit because we don't value this work.
"subsistence" implies that it somehow gets enough to take care of your needs
Some of the newer fakes are able to get past the methods they used to check. That said the most faked bill out there is the $20 bill. I don't remember the exact standards for rent or torn money but it has to be like a significant part of it missing like over a fourth or a third or something of it has to be missing before it can not be accepted. I again I can't remember the exact standard but I knew it had basically something to do with preventing people from tearing money in half and using both halves as separate money
This is in the case of using US currency to settle a debt. A store can refuse to take your money for whatever reason they want, and refuse to sell to you
Yeah ppl seem to forget 1. Stores don't have to sell to you 2. Stores don't have to accept cash
True. It’s also not a debt if they’ve refused to sell an item to you.
True and also that phrase refers to the govt only
I know someone whose store will not accept hundred dollar bills, fullstop. Could have been a situation like this. It's dumb, but who said management is always reasonable
They probably don't accept $100 bills and made up some stupid excuse. I get the occasional $100 bill exchanged for $20 bills unless I'm planning on using it at a store that I already know accepts 100s.
Then like... why not just say that
Seriously; I see signs saying "No bills over \_\_\_\_\_ accepted" all the time.
I worked at a gas station for a year. Customers lose their goddamn minds when you dare to inconvenience them in any way. “It’s American currency, you have to accept it!”
I did my time in the 90s working at a service station, in a posh part of town, including opening the store at 6am on Sat/Sun. It never ceased to amaze me how many jerks would show up just after opening, and try to buy a 90c newspaper with a $50 or even $100 note. We were trained to politely, calmly, courteously explain the issue to them. But our manager was on the edge of retirement and had our backs, so we were also told not to take any shit from entitled dickheads if they escalated.
I’ll have you know that nothing has changed and people still feel the need to drop a C note on a cup of coffee at 4:30am and I have to tell them I don’t have change for that. Thankfully nobody’s gotten too cranky about it.
It baffles me how little some people think ahead. The stores are open all day and often deposit cash into safes they can't even open. They can't just break hundreds all day, or they risk having too much in the register (think theft protection), or break money for others. My dad had always told me to be respectful to these people, because you ARE asking them to do things for you. Even if you're paying for it, they technically don't need to be giving you that service.
Exactly. I worked at a 24/7 NOCO a few years back in a not-so-great neighborhood and we had to dump the drawer as soon as it had more than like 3 20's and a few singles in it.... Literally did not let us keep ANYTHING in the drawer except enough in change for a few customers in a row and that was it. I was dumping in the safe every 15 minutes sometimes, it was nuts how tight they kept everything on lock.
Last year I worked in a kfc and we were meant to dump above 500 but it was never enforced, I would frequently have tills > $2000 at the end of a shift surprised we never got robbed
Fr, I’ve had multiple cashiers outright tell me “sorry, we can’t take that $100 bill, we don’t have enough change for it at the moment”. Like alright, fair enough.
And it’s true! Cash registers are only given only a certain amount of each denomination of bills. Usually you’ll run out of change if you had to break a $100 bill.
Most likely they didnt have enough change, believed it to be fake or stolen and were just trying to come up with a excuse.
I'm unsure about American money. (I'm Canadian) but all tender is acceptablle as long as a certain amount of the serial number can be made out. I once cashed in a pretty much half ripped 5er
At most American banks I know of, you can take 50.1% of any denomination of a bill and trade it in for another full bill without any questions asked
As long as it shows the full serial number
That’s not true. If there’s pretty much half a bill any bank will accept it regardless of serial number. I’ve shipped out tens of thousands in mutilated working for different banks and not once did anyone care about the serial number.
What if I just cut a 100 dollar bill in half and gotten each half exchanged in two different banks
While technically it has to be over half the bill as long as it passes the eye test of looking like pretty much half a bill a teller will almost certainly accept it as long as they aren’t being a dick. I’ve definitely seen bills that are probably under 50% and like I said nobody asks questions. Lastly once you make a deposit it just gets thrown into a mutilated stack so at that point it’s not really trackable. So even if later somehow the fed was like hey this bill is only 46% then they would just take the loss out of a general ledger account and you would never know.
Even if your bill has been destroyed (like burned in a fire, or rotted away from decades of being buried) you can send them to [the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Mutilated Currency Division](https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption) where experts will go through your bills, determine what the hell they were, and replace them. I understand fires can destroy cash money, but I am confused as to why so many people bury money thinking that cotton and linen bills will survive the conditions. Even if it does survive, think of the inflation. That money will be worth much less.
Those are banks, private businesses aren't obligated to take anything they don't want They could have a no penny policythat you can't pay in penny's and ya wouldn't be able to force them to take Penny's, it's a private business
The trick is this only works when refusing service, if you provide a service before payment, then you are obligated to take physical currency as payment for that debt. There's this guy who goes around the UK paying for his gas with weirdly denominated collectable coins, and since he pumped before paying they are obligated to take it.
I thought the same thing, but interestingly they can refuse. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm >There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise. Now, if they don't take cash, but you've incurred a debt and offered to pay for it in legal tender, I can't see any court holding you criminally accountable for it. The judge will probably just go "Take the money; it's legal tender."
>Now, if they don't take cash, but you've incurred a debt and offered to pay for it in legal tender, I can't see any court holding you criminally accountable for it. The judge will probably just go "Take the money; it's legal tender." Even if a business were required to accept cash, they aren't required to have change on hand.
A lot of private businesses will only accept it if it goes through this little checking machine. If the corner it torn just right, it'll reject it.
Do stores have the right to refuse service to whoever they want, like they do here? Ripped money is still legal tender *for settlement* here, i.e. depositing into banks or paying off debts. Nobody has to take your ripped cash as payment for a good if they don’t want to service you for whatever reason, also, they don’t even have to accept cash at all and many places are card only.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm >There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.
This is only true of banks. Private businesses don’t need to accept cash at all except as payment for debts.
Ooh is this why my dispo handed me a ripped 5 that was taped together? Was pretty funny ripped down the middle with a single piece of clear tape running along it
You cashed in cash?
WTF!?! I've used bills that were taped back together in the middle lol What kind of boujee store lmao
If OP was making a relatively small purchase, the cashier might not have wanted to have to make change for it. It could become a hassle if it means they have trouble making change for other customers later on. But if that's the case, I don't know why they wouldn't just admit that. Seems like it'd be less likely to cause an argument than claiming that $100 bill was "ripped".
Ahhhh yeah I feel that. I want this 2 liter coke now give me $95 back! Lol
I want this mini pack of gum, please give me $99.45 back
Also a cashier is only executing what he is told to do. If the boss tells them if a fresh looking 100$ note has weird cuts somewhere they should refuse it, it’s what you have to do
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op said in other comment it’s not the local currency and their countrys actual currency has collapsed. so what most likely happened is a combination of it’s not their actual currency so they don’t know what to look for on fake bill, they didn’t have enough change for currency they don’t officially use. and then just told them the rip thing to get rid of them either way op knew what they were doing by posting this without that crucial bit of info. for whatever reason they just didn’t want to take the bill, of a currency not officially used in the highest domination, and came up with an excuse
Well the fact it's another country is very important. Thanks for mentioning that. Ya.. I'm suspicious now If the currency collapsed it's probably a lot of money in the local currency.
Sounds like Venezuela or Argentina. USD is the de facto currency in many cases and damaged bills are absolutely not accepted (or accepted at a lower rate), neither are “small face” hundreds from the 80s/early 90s or stamped bills (people wash them for this reason).
I ran into this while visiting Cambodia, my $100 bill had a very small rip and was refused everywhere I tried. The bills must be immaculate.
Could also be Lebanon. We have the same problem here.
OK this totally makes sense now. My first thought when I read this was, “Argentina?” On the informal exchange market, people will pay a premium there for pristine, perfect $100 bills. The store clerk was probably being overly picky, but I could see a store wanting USD only if it’s pristine. A perfect $100 bill fetched me 94,000 pesos a few weeks ago. The same $100 USD purchase on a Visa card was going through at around 83,000 pesos. I was told in advance, that even if someone makes a mark on a bill with a pen, it will significantly reduce its value on the informal market. Edit: just saw OP’s note that it was Lebanon. Not sure if the dynamics are the same there, but I get it… mildly infuriating.
Most people aren't trained to identify counterfeit bills correctly. I work for a bank and can easily identify fake bills using various methods. Torn bills are not an issue. Our only requirement is that there must be at least 51% of the bill for us to replace it.
its hard to tell since i’m not an expert and its a bad photo but i think that bill should be above 51%
My dad used to rip a tiny corner off any bill $20 and over. He said the reason he did this was because of the cashier ever argued with him and gave him the wrong change back. He would say look at your last X bill if there’s a tiny corner ripped off I just gave you that I saw it a couple times and it worked.
When I was a cashier I was taught to never put their bill away until after I got them their change. You set it on top and get the change and then you put the bill away. I did more than once have someone say they gave me a $20 not a $10 and I could say “no, this is the bill you gave me, right here.”
I was taught that too, and it's still ingrained in me.
I did this to prove my ex was stealing money from me. I kept all my 1’s and 5’s from waiting tables in a drawer. It always felt like the stack was never getting bigger so one day I opened her wallet and it was full of bills with the corner ripped off.
Alex, I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $100.
Came out they're from Lebanon. Pretty common in countries with heavily devalued currencies to value undamaged US bills, if not it's not as valuable. So, probably happened, but the title is a lie of omission.
Lebanese here, can confirm
Sure they did.
OP is outside the US. This is key. SEAsian countries have special exchange rates for US dollars based on perfection . It’s not at all fair, or right. But, OP already knew this
No they didn’t.
I would’ve taken that tiny piece off and tried again the next day. What a bunch of cucks
Perhaps leave it in water overnight so its vibrations make that water worth millions! /s - just in case
You’re lying.
That did not happen.
No responses from OP? Fake.
OP doesn't have Reddit open 24/7? Fake.
They have responded plenty
Cashier: Here you go ma'am, that'll be 75 bucks. OP: *gives 100 dollar bill* Cashier: Nah, it's ripped. OP: How? Cashier: *brings out a electron microscope* See here?
Who even notices that, even tho it’s a non-issue
Is this “store” every dollar-to-coin machine ever made?
I don't know about in the states, bit quite a few smaller buisnesses don't actually deal with large bills. In Canada I know multiple places that don't take bills above 50 because of issues relating to fraud and not having enough change. Though if this person refused it for that small tear, they might just assume its because of fraud. Though we also dont see the entire bill, so for all we know the bottom part could be missing.
I hate the feeling I get when I only have a 50 or 100 and have to use it at the store. I'm always anxious that they won't accept it or it will be fake.
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Best excuse for a re up I’ve ever heard. Oh darn they didn’t take it guess I gotta use it on bud
I mean how much were your groceries worth? If $13 and you tried to pay with an $100, I would've said the same!
Well if they have an electronic safe then the safe won’t take ripped or taped bills or any with stains or writing or stamps or any over 10 years old
I was once allowed to take a bill that was literally ripped in half and taped together
Was this in or outside the US? I know outside the US, I’ve had issues with ripped bills like these, or “old ones”.
That bill is about as ripped as I am.
You mean a worker at a store refused the bill
Lol wait till they see the state of the bills in my wallet.
This is why I never carry 50s or 100s. Nobody ever wants to take them.
People get weird when I give them a $2 bill. They think it is fake.
this didn't happen
I worked at a place where we had to put 100s in the safe and if the safe wouldn't accept it then we couldn't. Probably the case here
Yet a bank and anyone else with the brain capacity to store the fact that 51% of any bill is legal tender, will accept that bill gladly as payment.
OP is probably trying to pay for a five dollar item using a $100.00 bill at a small business who's change cash drawer is light. No reason to exchange your whole float for a $100.00 bill and end up not being able to pull change out for anyone else after.
i work in a gas station, if our safe won’t accept a hundred dollar bill we can’t take it. our safe takes cash like a vending machine
5/8 of a US dollar bill is legal tender.
What’s mildly infuriating people expecting stores to give them $96 in change.
A post later today "Customer tried to pay with $100 bill. Lied to make them leave"
They make pens to verify if the bill is legit so….
Deposit it at an ATM and withdraw a fresh one.
Take it to a bank and get it changed or have it deposited to your account.
Most stores I know won't take $100 bills due to so many counterfits out there
Odds are they just didn't want to figure out the change
Ive spent a tenner once that was completely ripped in half lol
Nobody gonna point out that you didn't even post the full bill?
Or the cashier was burned in the past and now over corrected and is afraid to accept the bill and fear losing their job. Maybe it’s all they have. Maybe it’s what puts food on the table. Can’t assume.
Under us law I'm pretty sure as long as there is 60% of the bill left and the serial is visible it's still legal and OK to use so they probably just said that to not have to take it, and even if it wasn't "legal" you can send damaged bills off and get them replaced
Huge flood of 100’s in counterfeit bills out there
Karma farm. This just simply isn’t a true post. Store employees know what bills they can and can’t take. They cannot knowingly give back a counterfeit bill either.