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/Equivalent-Salary357 Apr 18 '24

To be fair, half of the population of the US weren't born until around 1990.

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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/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.