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