I think they think you misheard or miscounted, since most people (and I submit that the people who read your LJ are not in the category "most people") would be thinking "pay" rather than "apply math + logic to pay in some way that lightens wallet even more than buying a $6 sandwich already does."
$22 for $6.25 is not obvious--it really does look like an error. My first thought would have been that you'd meant to give me $7 and had mistaken the $20 bill for a $5 bill. (My second thought might have been that you'd seen too many movies about small-time grifters, but that's because I've seen too many etc.) Anyhow, it's not like when when the sandwich is $5.39 and you hand over $10.39--which never throws a cashier. In fact, I bet that had you handed over $11.25 or $21.25, she'd have seen the point immediately, possibly without explanation.
Once you explain, I doubt you're making their lives harder, since increasing the amount of change in a cash register is usually good.
At any rate, I can't really join y'all in making correlations between a cashier's intelligence and their confusion over an odd transaction or tendency to draw the conclusion most obvious based on their experience.
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Date: 2003-10-17 08:33 am (UTC)$22 for $6.25 is not obvious--it really does look like an error. My first thought would have been that you'd meant to give me $7 and had mistaken the $20 bill for a $5 bill. (My second thought might have been that you'd seen too many movies about small-time grifters, but that's because I've seen too many etc.) Anyhow, it's not like when when the sandwich is $5.39 and you hand over $10.39--which never throws a cashier. In fact, I bet that had you handed over $11.25 or $21.25, she'd have seen the point immediately, possibly without explanation.
Once you explain, I doubt you're making their lives harder, since increasing the amount of change in a cash register is usually good.
At any rate, I can't really join y'all in making correlations between a cashier's intelligence and their confusion over an odd transaction or tendency to draw the conclusion most obvious based on their experience.