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Simple question. You have made a purchase and the clerk gives you back too much change
for your purchase. What would you do?


<b>What would you do?</b>
:smile: <b><font color=green>I took an I.Q. test today...it came back negative.</font color=green></b> :smile:

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This depends. The other day the clerk completely forgot to even charge me, but I reminded him.

Another time I found a wallet filled with an easy $3000-$4000, maybe more, in cash. I returned that as well. That's one situation though where I regret returning the wallet since I know the authority I returned it to, my boss, didn't return it to the rightfull owner.

<font color=red>God</font color=red> <font color=blue>Bless</font color=blue> <font color=red>America!</font color=red>

Reply to dhlucke

Yes, but you did the right thing.
I would not have ever thought that you wouldn't.


:smile: <b><font color=green>I took an I.Q. test today...it came back negative.</font color=green></b> :smile:

Reply to OldBear

I'd make a joke about it... Something like: "So I get this for free then?" with a smile...

If my baby don't love me, I know, I know, her sister will.

Reply to silverpig

i would ask him what kind of stupid motherfucking, dipshit for brains, blubbering [-peep-]hole, dickless wonder does he think he is? that he can't make change for the purchase of a box of jr. chocolate minimints! just the fact that i'll have to stand there an additional 45-90secs while the dumbass corrects his error.

I run duals because i multitask between notepad, outlook express and winamp :lol:

Reply to mbetea

I didn't know we were allowed to make posts like that :smile:

If my baby don't love me, I know, I know, her sister will.

Reply to silverpig

Because of dhlucke`s example this will indeed seem uncanny, it is. Many years back my g/f and I were on a trip to the canadian rockies. At the train station in Banff, we found a wallet at the public phone booth. It was LOADED. USD + Autralian dollars, easily over 1000 perhaps 2000-3000. We were young 15 and 19. We brought the wallet as is to the local police station. 1 month later we received a letter from Autralia. Yes indeed. The father`s daughter send uds one of the kindest letters you could ever receive + $50 reward. She explained it was all their families expense money for their trip.

Many times this event comes back to mind and I wonder: would I repeat the same unselfish action? I have doughts! I have stolen things in my youth. I am far from pure. However if we do have a karma, this above action has bosted mine a great deal this I FEEL.

pike

Buddha, Mahomet, Jesus and Confucius! They once cared for us, perhaps they still do!

Reply to pike

I did not mentions the gender of the clerk.
It doesn't matter anyway.


:smile: <b><font color=green>I took an I.Q. test today...it came back negative.</font color=green></b> :smile:

Reply to OldBear

Mbetea, I think someone stole your password because I would never believe you would
post that.


:smile: <b><font color=green>I took an I.Q. test today...it came back negative.</font color=green></b> :smile:

Reply to OldBear

Hey man, your right, hadn`t noticed until you mentioned it and reread. Wow!
That`s way worst than anything I`ve ever posted!
Maybe someone should PM him. Maybe I will. Yes I will, right now!

pike

Buddha, Mahomet, Jesus and Confucius! They once cared for us, perhaps they still do!

Reply to pike

LOL

Actually incorrect change I will let them know. They could get into trouble for that. But if it's a large department store (I wont do it to small buisnesses) and they forget to ring me up for something, I'll walk right out with a grin on my face, laughing at their stupidity all the way to my car. A while back I think I posted something on the idiots at Fry's giving me a 1.33Ghz Proc instead of the 1.13 proc I paid for. Now how many people here would stop and say, "Excuse me you handed me the wrong processer, it's supposed to be the slower one"

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Reply to Pettytheft

I once ordered a set of Excel 95 on floppies from the local MS distributor. I forgot to put the check in the envelop. They sent the floppies anyway and still did not mention payment! I immediatly sent them back a second envelop with the check and a note of commendation.

pike

Buddha, Mahomet, Jesus and Confucius! They once cared for us, perhaps they still do!

Reply to pike

Depends on how much the change is.
If it's less than a dollar, screw it.

Reply to tmlim

three women go for a job interview at a department store. the manager asks the first woman "if at the end of the day your till was $10.00 over what would you do?"
"i'd leave it in the till with a note explaining i had no idea where it came from"
he asks the second womam the same question "well i would take $5.00 and leave $5.00 in the till" when asked the same question the third woman replies "well i'd check once agian and if the till was still over i'd keep it and not say a word to anybody"
the question is who gets the job

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answer the one with the biggest t!ts of course.

Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

Reply to Tom_Smart

Sometimes it's the one with the sexiest eyes, but that's just me and my fantasies. :wink:

pike & <A HREF="http://www.page3.com/wallpaper2/img/081101_s_katie.jpg" target="_new">katie</A>
I'm lucky, she has both

Buddha, Mahomet, Jesus and Confucius! They once cared for us, perhaps they still do!

Reply to pike

Hmmm.

Not an easy question to answer.

Being a Scotsman and all. :smile:

I think if I was strapped for cash I'd leave quietly. If I was in the money I'd mention it.

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Reply to camieabz

Yes, I would let them know for conscience sake. I remember once I stole a watch from someone, and later my guilty conscience disturbed so that I gave it away. Years later someone stole my very expensive prized bicycle. I was crusted, but my conscience reminded me of how the person who lost the watch felt. This was a painful lesson that I have never forgotten.

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Reply to jc14all

With a small change I will keep it. But with a large one I would say it especially if it is a small store.
But I don't recount my change often, so there is a big chance I wouldn't even notice it :redface: .

<b>THGC:</b> before: :frown: :eek: , after: :smile: :cool: .

Reply to svol

Quote :

Hmmm.

Not an easy question to answer.

Being a Scotsman and all.


thats because your lucky to get change in Scotland.
ho ho he he

Although it has a lot of good ideas, beer doesn't know anything about computers!!!

Reply to Tom_Smart

Small change I would prolly keep it because I rarely count it. For a large amount, I would probably notice and let them know.

Reply to buddry

The Dude needs JESUS

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by 4ryan6 on 04/14/02 02:28 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Reply to 4ryan6

Well, considering the only "shopping" I do regularly is at this pizza place very close to me, 711, and my school's cafeteria, there are a few things. The Pizaa place guys I'm freinds w/, and to date they have never given me incorrect change. Same for the 711. Now, my school's cafeteria is a different story. See, they are totally separate from the school, and make their own profits. The food is seriously overpriced, I mean seriosuly- an example is a cookie teh size of a chips ahoy is $1 there! The people occasionally make errors, and once I didn't notice they forgot to give me $10 back. 10 mins later when I went they refused to give me back teh money. However, from time to time instead of giving me back $1, they give me a 5, 10 or 20, in that case I just take it real fast and crack up when my back's turned to them. If I ever find money on teh floor though, I take it, considering the person who lost it will never get it back if I give it to the office or something.

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