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, a...