Confess Your Little Quirks

ribbons · 01-13-2012, 05:24 PM

I almost always break bills and rarely count coins when paying for something at a store, for fear of holding up a line. So I wind up with loads of change in my bag, which becomes loads of change in the house. Eventually I bring the load of change to one of those coin-counting machines at the bank and change it all back to bills - to be broken again when I'm worried about holding up a line.

midnight rain · 01-13-2012, 05:33 PM

I have to have my hands clutching something to me while I'm sleeping, be it the blanket or another pillow or whatever. I think it's carried over from sleeping with a teddy bear lmao.

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Originally Posted by ribbons

I almost always break bills and rarely count coins when paying for something at a store, for fear of holding up a line. So I wind up with loads of change in my bag, which becomes loads of change in the house. Eventually I bring the load of change to one of those coin-counting machines at the bank and change it all back to bills - to be broken again when I'm worried about holding up a line.

I would think most people break bills as opposed to counting out change. I do, wallets don't typically have any room for change. Unless I'm getting a soda or something and happen to have a bunch of quarters lying around.

ribbons · 01-13-2012, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuna

I would think most people break bills as opposed to counting out change. I do, wallets don't typically have any room for change. Unless I'm getting a soda or something and happen to have a bunch of quarters lying around.

Thanks - I feel better now.

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Originally Posted by Tuna

I have to have my hands clutching something to me while I'm sleeping, be it the blanket or another pillow or whatever. I think it's carried over from sleeping with a teddy bear lmao.

I do exactly the same thing. And I use a soft pillow that I can clutch.
So you should feel better now too.

Howard the Duck · 01-13-2012, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ribbons

I almost always break bills and rarely count coins when paying for something at a store, for fear of holding up a line. So I wind up with loads of change in my bag, which becomes loads of change in the house. Eventually I bring the load of change to one of those coin-counting machines at the bank and change it all back to bills - to be broken again when I'm worried about holding up a line.

i'm of the opposite

i have to use up all my change (coins) in my wallet

The Batlord · 01-14-2012, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuna

I would think most people break bills as opposed to counting out change. I do, wallets don't typically have any room for change. Unless I'm getting a soda or something and happen to have a bunch of quarters lying around.

Not to be sexist, but women are the worst for this. If they carry around a purse, they DO have a **** load of change. When I used to work the register at Burger King, I dreaded when a female customer would sit her big dumbass purse, that she obviously hadn't cleaned out in months, on the counter and rummage around for her purse wallet (or whatever the hell you call those things), count out the dollar bills, close the wallet, unzip the other side of the wallet where they keep their change, spend five minutes going through every single coin, and then put the money in my hand without any apology for keeping every single person in line and myself waiting for an hour when she could have just let me break a twenty.

Unknown Soldier · 01-14-2012, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Not to be sexist, but women are the worst for this. If they carry around a purse, they DO have a **** load of change. When I used to work the register at Burger King, I dreaded when a female customer would sit her big dumbass purse, that she obviously hadn't cleaned out in months, on the counter and rummage around for her purse wallet (or whatever the hell you call those things), count out the dollar bills, close the wallet, unzip the other side of the wallet where they keep their change, spend five minutes going through every single coin, and then put the money in my hand without any apology for keeping every single person in line and myself waiting for an hour when she could have just let me break a twenty.

People with a load of change (and its especially women) drive me nuts when they start counting it out in the supermarket queue, these people always seem to be in front of me in the queue, especially when I'm in a hurry.

The Batlord · 01-14-2012, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

People with a load of change (and its especially women) drive me nuts when they start counting it out in the supermarket queue, these people always seem to be in front of me in the queue, especially when I'm in a hurry.

I seriously think these people are, in general, more narcissistic than the rest of us. They have to be able to feel the passage of time. Yet, for some reason it doesn't seem to occur to them, "Hey, this is taking a long time to count all this change. Maybe I should quit wasting everyone else's time just so that I can keep my five dollar bill intact." If I was still working that job, I'm not entirely sure I wouldn't have set one of these people on fire by now.

ribbons · 01-15-2012, 11:14 AM

My former husband had an issue with breaking bills and kept a separate change purse in the glove compartment of our car, to make sure I'd dispense the coins in the store. He would get very angry if I didn't return with less change in the purse. When paying himself, he would count out change from his wallet and the separate change purse, and sometimes even from an extra bag of change he brought from the house, no matter how long the line was. The people on the line would get very annoyed and it was very embarrassing and frustrating. Then, when I'd tell him later that he shouldn't hold up the line for so long, he'd tell me I didn't have the courage to 'stand up to' the people in the line and that that was why I broke bills.

CanwllCorfe · 01-15-2012, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Farfisa

When I get really into listening to music I like to grab my Ipod and walk back and forth around the house, like I have to move and if I don't it won't feel the same. I also like to walk around at night and listen to music, it just feels right to move around and listen to music.

Definitely.

**Janszoon** · 01-15-2012, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ribbons

My former husband had an issue with breaking bills and kept a separate change purse in the glove compartment of our car, to make sure I'd dispense the coins in the store. He would get very angry if I didn't return with less change in the purse. When paying himself, he would count out change from his wallet and the separate change purse, and sometimes even from an extra bag of change he brought from the house, no matter how long the line was. The people on the line would get very annoyed and it was very embarrassing and frustrating. Then, when I'd tell him later that he shouldn't hold up the line for so long, he'd tell me I didn't have the courage to 'stand up to' the people in the line and that that was why I broke bills.

Yikes. All I have to say is I always hated people like him back when I rang a register.

01-13-2012, 05:24 PM	#791 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	I almost always break bills and rarely count coins when paying for something at a store, for fear of holding up a line. So I wind up with loads of change in my bag, which becomes loads of change in the house. Eventually I bring the load of change to one of those coin-counting machines at the bank and change it all back to bills - to be broken again when I'm worried about holding up a line.

01-15-2012, 11:14 AM	#798 (permalink)
ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	My former husband had an issue with breaking bills and kept a separate change purse in the glove compartment of our car, to make sure I'd dispense the coins in the store. He would get very angry if I didn't return with less change in the purse. When paying himself, he would count out change from his wallet and the separate change purse, and sometimes even from an extra bag of change he brought from the house, no matter how long the line was. The people on the line would get very annoyed and it was very embarrassing and frustrating. Then, when I'd tell him later that he shouldn't hold up the line for so long, he'd tell me I didn't have the courage to 'stand up to' the people in the line and that that was why I broke bills.