thoughts put into words: May 2009

Sunday, May 24, 2009

What happened today...

Imagine this:

You are second in line to pay for your groceries. The person in front of you is a boy, probably 11 or 12 years old.

The boy's groceries sum up to, say for example, RM20.00. He hands over RM100 to the cashier. The cashier takes it, opens the cash register, counts the change and handed it over to him. As you're observing the exchange, you noticed that instead of a RM50 note stacked below three RM10 notes, it was the same RM100 note that he used to pay for his groceries.

You watched as the cashier counted the change for the second time before handing them to the boy and hoped that she would notice it. But she did not. She handed over the change to the boy, boy keeps the change in his wallet, boy walks out, and it's your turn to pay.

So, instead of giving RM80 for the kid's change, she gave RM130. What would you have done if you were in that situation?

I should have done something about it. But now when I think back about that incident, it's probably a RM50 note instead of a RM100. I'm not so sure now. But it was purple, not green.

Oh my.