Today, my first day at my new job, a guy decided to pay all his parking fines in one go. All £2300 of them. Yes, he did decide to pay it in pennies. Wheelbarrows and buckets full of pennies. That's 230,000 pennies. Guess whose job it was to count them. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, a lady came into my workplace to pay her $120 bill in one dollar bills. I kept losing count. FML
Today, at my retail job, a woman came to my till with her purchases. After I scanned all her items, she handed me two small bags. One was filled with nickels and dimes. The other was filled with cents. Her total was $28.53. The coins amounted to $22.30. FML
Today, a buttmunch customer brought in $7 worth of pennies I had to count and roll. As I was putting them in the deposite box at the end of my shift, I fumbled and dropped the rolls. All but one broke, spilling their contents on the floor. FML
Today, I was so broke, I couldn't come up with enough change to pay the parking meter at my job. FML
Today, I thought I was having a nice day at work, until I had a client who paid me $376 in rolls made of 0.05 and 0.10. It took me an hour to count. FML
Today, while working as a receptionist at a doctor's office, my boss asked me to check in one more patient before I left. He paid his $50 copay in nickels and dimes. FML
Today, I was informed by my boss that he has been stealing quarters out of my change bowl to pay for his bus rides. He makes six times the amount I make. FML
Today, I had an elderly man come to my cash register. His total came to $15.50 He handed me $5 in nickels and dimes. A full roll of quarters. Before I could take the roll, he bust it open, making me count it. After that was all counted he was 50 cents short. So he handed me a $10 bill. FML
Today, after finding $50 on the sidewalk this morning and feeling like the luckiest person alive, I got a parking ticket for $60. FML
Today, I had to empty out my coin jar to pay for gas. Trying to be considerate, I only brought quarters, but the cashier refused to take it because they didn't want to count out my $10. I don't know how I'll get to work today. FML
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Top comments
skippydoda 32
Some places have actually said they won't take change. You can only pay in dollars. Perhaps suggest that to your boss.
Mathalamus 25
That sounds like a funny prank... not for you, of course.
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Comments (32)
WHSKitty4ever 23
Doesn’t your area have a coin counter? And isn’t there a policy that states all fines paid by check or card? If not, there should be … on both counts.
Cody Vertigo Bonthoux 15
this is why canada took pennies out of circulation and made things like this illegal
Joe Brewer 3
That's fine. In the US, pennies are legal tender and must be accepted. If not, I have no problem paying with nickels.
katydid91 31
You've died and gone to Hell. This is a circle of Hell.
cnelsen 3
Woulda straight up quit.
GrumpyGrinch 23
You say £2300 so it's UK. While you guys are still in EU there is a EU regulation (google the numbers yourself) that says businesses can refuse to accept a payment if there are more than 50 pieces of coins to count.
1gullible_bugger 34
While some places won't take small change at all, other places won't take small change unless it's properly rolled in coin rollers.
Benihime469 6
Sometimes people will take coins in rolls and sometimes they won't. I once worked at a place that wouldn't take rolled coins, because people kept cheating them out of money by only putting coins on the tops and bottoms of rolls and filling the rest of them with appropriate sized washers. Which while incredibly clever makes rolled coins an unreliable source of money. To be honest, I doubt a place that accepted that much coin change wouldn't have a machine coin counter. Our store did and it's considered shitty by modern standards.
Phil 14
okay this one may or may not be true(there is no new thing under the sun),but I'm very skeptical. Things like this have been floating around the internet for years now.
weaboo 12
Yeah but you can weight 1 Pennie and then multiply by 230000 and then weight all of them and it should be the same
RikkX2 8
I blame Mr.Beast.
boob-bee 1
It's an FML for this person, but I bet it felt like a win for that guy.