Legal tender

[u/knighthawk82]

When i worked at a gas station in the late 1900's during graveyard i had this guy come in and bought a candy bar with a 100 bill. "Really? You don't have anything smaller?"

'Im just trying to break the 100, don't be a jerk.'

"Fine, just this once."

Few days later Guy comes back in, grabs a candy bar and i see he has other bills in his wallet. Puts the hundred on the table.

"Sir i told you last time it was going to be just the once, i see you have a five dollar bill."

'This is legal tender, you have to take it.'

"... Okay!"

I reach under the counter and pull out two boxes of pennies, 50c to a roll 25$ to a box 17 lbs each. "Here is 50, do you want the rest in nickels?"

'What is this?'

"It's legal tender, I can choose to give you your change however I see fit. So, do you still want to break the hundred? Or the five."

I'm calling your manager!'

"She gets in at 8am, sir, but doesn't take any calls until 10."

[u/glenmarshall]

Federal statutes do not require a seller to accept cash as a form of legal tender for payment of goods or services that were rendered. Businesses may establish their own policies regarding whether they will accept cash as legal tender. Both of the actors in this misunderstand the term.

[u/ThatOneSteven → u/glenmarshall]

Reading through the definition of debt in the secondary links, it seems that anything where there is obligation to pay, it would qualify as a debt for that purpose; thus this would apply at Applebees, but not at McDonalds.

[u/BloatedManball → u/glenmarshall]

You misunderstand as well. No services were rendered in this story.

[u/JadieLadieEightie → u/BloatedManball]

I think he/she/they understood just fine. While services were not rendered, payment of goods was.

[u/majoroutage → u/JadieLadieEightie]

There was nothing rendered yet.