Just for Fun Poll-- If you get one cent back in change, do you take it?

Longacre

I just got back from the lunchroom at work, and the cashier is always quite friendly with me and talks to me (...cashiers, flight attendants...I need to start befriending rich old ladies...). She was complaining that a customer got a penny back in change and she (the cashier) just assumed that the customer didn't want it so she put it in the "leave a penny" bowl. The customer (a co-worker, but one I don't know) was annoyed that it was just assumed that she did not want the change back. The people that I work with are generally pretty tightly wound, so this does not surprise me (Longacre, on the other hand, is much more laid back, although I do enjoy a nice tussle every once in a while ). I thought this would be a fun poll (becaues I can't think of anything else of substance to post on right now.

tradedollarnut

Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't - where's that option?

RYK

I was torn between #2 and #3, so I flipped a half-eagle and #3 won.

D

I'd like to change mine to "Sometimes yes, sometime no. It depends on my mood". There's a specific gas station where I always do. I've been going in there since I was a child and when I was young with my allowance, I would miscalculate tax and have to borrow a few cents here and there. I've gotta pay it back somehow .

-Daniel

wam98

Yes, if it's copper. If not copper it goes in the cent bowl.

Bruceswar

Sometimes I take mine and leave it in the penny jar... need a penny... you know...

OKbustchaser

Of course I do. Gotta get the money that I overpay by not sniping on Ebay somehow.

Koinlink

I always take them back. Heck, I pick them up off the parking lot! I have a big 5 gallon jug I fill with my change & when it's full it will be converted into one great coin for my
collection. What that will be I don't know though......

topstuf

J. C. Penney had a test he gave all prospective candidates for promotion. He took them to lunch. If any salted their soup before tasting it, he eliminated them from consideration. If they tasted it and thought it needed salt, they could pour the whole shaker in and J.C. would still promote them.
So.....thrift is never wasted.

Now this may just be a fable, but I heard it so long ago and it made so much sense that I always remembered it.

ms70

Note to self: Don't order soup at a promotional luncheon...

relayer

Yes, in protest of the facist "Take a penny - Leave a penny" policy of our government

topstuf

<< <i>"Take a penny - Leave a penny" >>



AArrrgggghhrghrraaaghhh! Relayer just HAD to bring that up. grraaarrrrhhh!

Hey Relayer, HAVE A NICE DAY.
LOVE YOU....LOVE YOU TOO.

CarlWohlforth

I always want all my change back. I do say thanks when they give me a cent, like when the bill is $3.01 and they take the $3 rather than make change. I pick up change I see on the ground. All my change goes into a jar. Every once in a while I roll up the change and deposit it in a savings account. That account is currently up to $355.32!

billboat

Never know what that cent will be--once in a great while I get a wheat.. Curious--does any anyone look at the "take a penny" tray to see if there's a wheatie (not paw through--just a look)? I do.

thebeav

The worst case is like Carl's example, when the bill for say, a pizza, is 11.01. They give you back 8.99 from a twenty.....Oh, that one
frys me......

pf70collector

Always. Especially when I got two brand new 2006's yesterday which I put away after I look at them with the loupe.

Freak1c

Yes ! You never know when you will get the cent to complete the collection.

DeputyPud

If there is a penny bowl, I leave it in there. If not, I pocket it. Once in a while I spot a wheatie in the penny bowl, take that one, and leave a couple of extras (No, I don't go diggin around. I only take it if there's one laying in plain view, and only if there isn't anyone else standing at the register that would think...or should I say realize... that I can be a goof)

Mercury

Hey thebeav,

Most of the time the people working the cash register are people earning miminum wage or something close to it, and they do not have the authority give out the companies money. And if they did they may actually end up with it coming out of their paycheck when the cash drawer comes out short at the end of the shift. So, cut the cashier some slack.

MoeSzyslak

I always take the change, whether it's one cent or 99. It's all coins I haven't seen yet.



<< <i>Curious--does any anyone look at the "take a penny" tray to see if there's a wheatie (not paw through--just a look)? >>


Yep. Last time, I was picking up a six-pack at the local convenience store for a poker game. There were five cents in the tray and the one wheatie was reverse-side up. I smoothly dropped a zincoln in and scooped the wheatie out.

1949-S, VF-30.

I will also look over teller's change trays when at the bank. I've found several 40% halves, and one 1964 that way.

MarineEAS1999

Where I live it isn't unusual to see silver in the "give a penny, take a penny" dish.

Some people just have too much money or are in such a big hurry not to take their change.

I just can't seem to lower myself into "taking" the quarters to pay for my morning coffee.

Technically its not the store's money. I'm surprised the neighborhood kids haven't wised
up to this.

I had no shame when I was young. I would have scouped them up..quick, fast.
and in a hurry.

Why you ask...to buy my next coin, of course.

09sVDB

I got one yesterday. I used it to scratch two scratch tickets. Yes, I lost.

PerryHall

I think age has a lot to do with it. Older people are far more likely to bend over and pick up a cent off the sidewalk than a young person.

Barry

Depends on my mood. What I would prefer, and it does happen at times, is if the bill is something like $3.02 and I pay with a $5, I get $2 back, rather than $1.98. Unfortunately, it's the places without the penny dishes that give me the 98 cents change.

J. C. Penney had a test he gave all prospective candidates for promotion. He took them to lunch. If any salted their soup before tasting it, he eliminated them from consideration.

To me it's more a matter of who uses their brain. Why would anyone add salt to something they haven't tasted yet and have no idea how salty it is?

My employment test would automatically disqualify anyone who thinks the phrase "I could care less" is correct.

ElKevvo

I would have to say I always take it...and never really use change out of the 'Take a Penny' bowl...and not that I think I am old but I pick up pennys off of the sidewalk too! We just did not have too much spare money growing up so a penny was something to save. My friends and co workers are often suprising with their attitude towards pennies...they just throw them out at times! Makes me cringe...

K

cladking

It is inane that anyone should have to make such a decision. A penny
isn't enough money to buy anything and hasn't been for many years.
Even in quantity they have very limited value because of the amount
of time and effort that is required.

I take the pennies but would prefer not to have to.

Shamika

Money is money.

gemstatecoins

Yes, I definitely keep them.... I'm filling a five gallon glass water bottle with them... over 3/4 full... VERY heavy.
Started back in the late 70's

dizzyfoxx

Yes. I'm always looking for that penny that says 1922 but does not say "D".

LindeDad

Yes.
Change Jug.
Coin Star.
Money for new coin.

Conder101

<< <i>Yes, in protest of the facist "Take a penny - Leave a penny" policy of our government >>


I thought our government's policy was Take a penny - take another, and another, and another . . . .

rmoss

Ben Franklin said, "A penney saved is a penny earned." Good advice. I go into the canteen at work and people leave pennies on the tables. I guess they make more money than I do and can afford to throw their money away. I have a bag of cents in my desk drawer at work with about $3.00 in pennies I have picked up off the canteen tables. I work nights and no canteen people work night shift so I am not stealing tips or anything like that.

TwoSides2aCoin

what is really fun is to find them "give a penny, take a penny" containers and just dump them in your pocket. Tell the clerk you are with the Numismatic society of america and all pennies are being confiscated for evaluation and possible submission for grading.

Many times people look at me funny, but it doesn't matter.... I usually wear a disguise. And with this disguise a lot of people just give me money cuz they feel sorry for me . If that don't work, I wear one of them signs that says "will work for food".
















just kidding folks. it's late, okay ?

TheRaven

Got to take the penny.....

Add it to my big bag of pennies on my desk.....

joecheck

Yes, I take it and check it!