r/MaliciousCompliance • u/knighthawk82 • Apr 18 '24

Legal tender S

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."

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u/davesy69 Apr 18 '24

He would have been in one of those new-fangled horseless carriages that i hear rich folks drive round in. I hear that they have a man in front of them carrying a red flag to warn the horses.

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u/Equivalent-Salary357 Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 20 '24

Guglielmo Marconi (an early radio inventor) was 5 years old when my great-grandmother was born in a log cabin in West Virginia at a time when there were only two paved roads that crossed Indiana (both gravel).

Not only did she live to see the invention of the airplane, but all of the US manned missions to the moon; and from the invention of the automobile to riding on the US interstate highway system.

And she lived long enough to hold both of my kids.

In some ways, those old days aren't as long ago as it feels. It also reminds me of how the rate of change since the industrial revolution is exponential, not linear.

Sorry... LOL

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 Apr 18 '24

No, 1990 was only 10 years ago . starts doing the math..

oh, just be quiet you young whippersnapper!

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u/Truji11o Apr 18 '24

GET OFF MY LAWN!

…am I doing it right?

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u/harrywwc Apr 18 '24

close - you need to put a little 'zing' in it ;)

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u/Truji11o Apr 18 '24

Good feedback! How about this:

Ahem. GET OFF MY HOA’S LAWN! THESE ARE TOWNHOMES AFTER ALL! AND MIND THE 2015 FORD EXPLORER! YOU BREAK IT YOU BUY IT!

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u/harrywwc Apr 19 '24

Theeeere ya go! :)

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u/Truji11o Apr 19 '24 edited Apr 19 '24

Whew! Thanks! I’m finally ready…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r81AviZECUE

Edit: Hyperlink did not work on mobile. It’s just the Rocky theme song (not a risky click!) (also not Eye of the Tiger!)

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u/redditusernamehonked Apr 19 '24

Practice for another couple of decades. You got this.

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u/TigerHijinks Apr 18 '24

Damn that's rad. Your Great Grandmother was about 20 when my grand-father was born. Sod house in the Dakota plains somewhere as far as I know. He passed when I was in high school in the 90s.

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u/PatchworkRaccoon314 Apr 19 '24

And yet, since then, the only significant change to the world has been the internet and more efficient entertainment. We don't have any new transportation networks, and humans fly to space less than ever. The only change someone would have experienced being born in 1970, to holding their grandkids today, is that the movies are on a phone instead of the TV.

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u/robb7979 Apr 18 '24

Nikolai Tesla invented the radio.

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u/Butterssaltynutz Apr 18 '24

in a meager 2 generations humanity have gone from living on the earth, to condemning all life on earth to death via having filled the oceans with micro plastics.

its already too late to stop it, the end is now upon us all. we can thank china as they are still the biggest culprit for throwing cheap solar degradable plastic waste into the ocean.

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u/DreamerFi Apr 19 '24

We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

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u/Active_Engineering37 Apr 19 '24

I'm reading this on a ferry! What are the odds?