You give the extra 6 cents so you get a shiny quarter back instead on a dime, nickle, and 4 Pennies
I’d rather have a $1 bill I can put in my wallet instead of loose change.
To get a single crisp dollar back you would have had to give her $19.81 to get a crisp $2 bill back you would have had to give her $20.81. As another poster noted, if you give her a $0.19, she has to give you back $1.38.
OP pre-returned $.19 to the poor cashier for no reason and didn’t know why she was confused.
if you gave her $20 she would have given you $1.19 change. For you to get $1 back you’d have to give her less money, not more.
Instead, though you would be owed $1.19 from the $20 given, you decided to add to the money you were giving to $20.19. This doesn’t reduce the amount that she owes you, it instead ups what you are owed to $1.38.
Interestingly this is not a question AI could answer correctly for me. Here was my AI prompt:
If I purchase an item for $18.81 what is the best way for me to help the cashier return convenient change to me? Assume I have a $20 bill and 20 pennies
I even asked some follow-up questions after the initial response and didn’t get a good answer. Guess not a lot of good internet training data for AI to regurgitate how to make change.
Thanks to boomers like you for turning America into a degenerate non-white cesspit that is hated around the world. I hope you get a Somali in the nursing home!
She'd already punched the numbers into the register, so she had no idea what to do to make change even though I made it simpler for her. I ended up just taking back my 19 cents and then letting her give me the change she'd originally planned on because she couldn't understand what was going on.
How do we let kids graduate from high school without knowing how to make change?
Trump is cancelling pennies. Now do the maths.
Bill $18.81 You give her $20.00 Pennies no longer exist How much change do you give her to make your maths work? 20¢?
She'd already punched the numbers into the register, so she had no idea what to do to make change even though I made it simpler for her. I ended up just taking back my 19 cents and then letting her give me the change she'd originally planned on because she couldn't understand what was going on.
How do we let kids graduate from high school without knowing how to make change?
Pennies, like the telephone booth, Commodore 64's, half gallons of ice cream and oj,, Breyer's vanilla w/o "gums", etc will soon be things of the past.
"For far too long the United States has minted pennies, which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is wasteful!" Trump wrote. "I have instructed my Secretary of Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nation's budget, even if it's a penny at a time."
She'd already punched the numbers into the register, so she had no idea what to do to make change even though I made it simpler for her. I ended up just taking back my 19 cents and then letting her give me the change she'd originally planned on because she couldn't understand what was going on.
How do we let kids graduate from high school without knowing how to make change?
No. If you'd have given her the $1.38 before she'd rung it through the register, instead of deducting the difference from what she'd already put it, the $0.19 would've cancelled out and the plane would take off.