Calling hamurabi re short-changing

Paying with cash continues to get weirder, not directly due to sinister lizard plotting, but more proximally due to mass stupidity by the human race.

There are the usual aborted sales, often after a drink has been poured, like in the Tap yesterday. After standing there with a tenner, "the thing is, you see, we're cashless. Do you not have a card?" "I was intending to pay with cash, and i prefer to choose".

Then, in subway (um), something priced at 5.99. It's a lie by one pound. I observe their 9s are wrote so tiny, you can't see, looks like 5, is actually 6, cheapest trick in the book. I wonder why not just be honest and put 6 ? I pay with 6 of the pound coins, and she says sorry, you can't pay that way, we don't have the right change. I say mind about the penny. She then says I'll give you a 10% discount, proceeds to hand me back one of the pound coins, and says sorry i owe you another 80p. Confused, I'm pretty sure I'm up overall, and rich into my vegan molten petrocheese.

Next, in coffee house The Square, i buy a coffee at a little under a fiver, breaking into a 50. But the change offered is a little over 5 GBP(2023), not a little over 45 GBP(2023). Shortchanged by 40 GBP(2023). For those reading from the future, this is nearly two hours' labor.

The best way, when one notices, is to not take any of the change into one's hands. Here, they took it back, and did add two twenties to it, but did not offer an additional two twenties to make up for it. No one does. 

Attempts to short-change should be not just "fixed" back to zero, but the amount attempted stolen should then, in addition, be owed from the scammer to the victim. Same with any scam. Classic case of being able to make the remedy fit the moral error. It's just like Hamurabi. No, not ordeal by tongue-burning, the other part. The one where false accusers get sentenced to the sentence of the thing they falsely accused someone of. Same deal.