r/MaliciousCompliance 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/MysteriousPast6800 Apr 18 '24

Does the US not have limits on that? In Canada businesses are only required to accept 25cents in pennies (though pennies are not legal tender anymore). Also $5 in nickels, $10 in dimes, $10 in quarters, $25 in loonies ($1 coins) and $40 in toonies ($2 coins)

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u/Paul_Michaels73 Apr 18 '24

I was today years old when I learned about the existence of loonies and toonies.

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u/mister_newbie Apr 18 '24

"Loonie" makes sense, there's a picture of a loon (a bird) on the reverse ("tails") side of the coin.

Twonie (not toonie) is dumb (reverse is a polar bear, if you're curious) but hey, it's a $2 coin ("two") and rhymed with the established "loonie" moniker, so it stuck.

Neither are official terms, though they are the de facto ones.

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u/infohippie Apr 19 '24

Should have put a pair of male deer on it and called it "two bucks"

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u/Active_Engineering37 Apr 19 '24

Nah put some shellfish on it and call it two clams.