To all my fellow cashiers...

[gsguy]

Always and I mean ALWAYS give corrrect change!

[bigHEADinc]

Funny story from my days working at a liquor store...

There was a customer who came in who was a known crackhead who would try to swindle you out of anything. We were in a bad neighborhood and was told exactly who to watch and what to watch for.

This was all especially fun because I was about 14 at the time (My dad owned the shop.).

But back to the story, so this guy, we'll call him Crackhead, was buying a forty of Eagle (Cost all of $1.29) and handed me a $10 bill. I gave him back his change and was bagging the forty when he went off. "What the f*** is this s***? I gave you a twenty!"

I looked at him and laughed, said that there was no way he gave me a twenty, so he started ranting and raving, saying I was being racist and that I was cheating him out of his money. I told him to take his forty and get the f*** out of my store. He responded by going to my dad (We had a separate section for cell phones & beepers that my dad ran) and saying that he was shorted money. My dad looked at me and asked "How much did he give you?" I told him it was a ten. My dad looked at the guy and said "Now, it's either you're telling the truth or he's telling the truth, take a guess who I'm gonna pick?"

The guy got pissed and started ranting and raving again, and then knocked down a rack of assorted nuts demanding that somebody call the cops because he was being cheated. My dad walked over, grabbed the Black Panther (a wooden baseball bat covered in electrical tape) and said that if he didn't pick up all the stuff he knocked over and put it back that he would make sure that the guy wouldn't be able to walk again. The guy then hurriedly put everything back, apologizing profusely for his mistake, and made a quick exit.

He never questioned me again.