There are two sides to every story

[chargirlgenius]

I was recently reading a local forum about a town in New Jersey, and clicked on a thread about safety in the town, and how safe people felt on Main Street. The thread quickly turned to a debate on illegal immigrants, which is always, well, interesting.

Somebody on the board complained about a local grocery giving her foreign change:

someone a couple posts back said something about the latin grocer on Main Street. I had to run in there a few weeks ago and pick up a few pieces of produce and thought it was very convenient. I went to pay for my items and the guy behind the counter handed me foreign currency. I mean hello, we are in the USA and it should be AMERICAN money not currency from British Islands or Puerto Rico. I went back to the cashier and said to him you owe me money and he said no he didn't he gave me the right change back. I did not leave the store until he gave me AMERICAN money. I said that his change was worthless to me and wanted the right change back. He eventually gave me what I asked for but I will never shop in that establishment ever again even though it was convenient.

Since it was a local forum, another poster checked the story out:

I went over asked Fruitmex about is incident. They all remember it quite well! Some lady freaked out because they gave them a foeign coin. They said she was quite mean. Oh the coin was Canadian!

And this, folks, is why little anecdotes are generally useless.

Comments

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was pretty sure the story was about Canadian coins.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

It's so freaking common. Yet, if somebody brown does it, there must be a deeper and nefarious meaning.

[snolan.livejournal.com]

The irony is that these days the Canadian money is worth more than equivalent face valued American money! The store was doing the bigot a huge favor!

[math5.livejournal.com]

Me too but you can't really trust these foreigners, can you? :D

DON'T EXCEPT THAT THERE FURRIN' MONEY! SLIPPERY SLOPE! SLIPPERY SLOPE!

[jljonsn.livejournal.com]

ACCEPTING CANADIAN MONEY IS ONE MORE STEP TOWARDS DOMINATION BY GLOBAL SOCIALISM!

Re: DON'T EXCEPT THAT THERE FURRIN' MONEY! SLIPPERY SLOPE! SLIPPERY SLOPE!

[ld-lorenzo.livejournal.com]

Next thing ya' know, we'll all be playin' hockey and sayin' "aboot..."

Re: DON'T EXCEPT THAT THERE FURRIN' MONEY! SLIPPERY SLOPE! SLIPPERY SLOPE!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Or at least domination by people who say "Ay" all the time.

I also hear those d**n foreign Canadians train them there moose to steal lawn ornaments.

[ld-lorenzo.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what small NJ town?

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Hackettstown. I guess it's a medium town.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Ironically? Puerto Rican currency is... the U.S. dollar.

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I hadn't realized that. :-D I kind of wish I was an actual member of the forum so I could point that out, but no sense trolling...

[greta-k.livejournal.com]

Oh my freakin' goodness. With all that is happening in the world, don't these people have something better to do than to bitch about their change, and rudely? Could they not just point out to the cashier that they were given foreign currency, and could the cashier please correct the problem? These people need a lesson in manners.

Ironically, it was probably people like themselves, who can afford to travel, who left some Canadian or British currency in their pockets and forgot to remove it before giving the cashier change for a purchase.