Riley Park Hell Funnies, Part 4

[jamesq]

I was reading customers_suck when I came across this tale of an attempted change-this-bill-for-me con.

I've had this attempted on me back in the dim past when I worked at RPS. Both times it was the same guy and it was within a week of each other. It was also only a $20 scam, not the $50 scam that arjei thwarted. The con was a little different in that once change was made, the fellow tried to change the type of change (from two tens, to four fives, and some of the fives into loonies. that sort of thing). the whole point of the exchange was to confuse the cashier as to how much money was floating around, then leave.

First, I was smarter than 95% of RPS' customers, so I twigged to what this guy was doing almost instantly. Second, and more importantly, he was drunk both times. I suspect this is why he made the second attempt, he could neither remember where he tried it the week before, nor that I had served him both times.

Both exchanges ended with a "you don't want to serve me because I'm an Indian" accusation, which I responded to with "I'd be more than happy to help you sir, I just want to make sure I don't inadvertently short change you".

I resolved to give him change for a ten (instead of a twenty) if he tried it again. What was he going to do, call the cops on me? Sadly he never came back.