Boomers please take note

[Crushingdandelions]

First sign you're of a certain age...you always pay in cash and count out every last frickin' bit of change no matter how big the queue is behind you.

Just don't? Use a card please. I don't want to count out your 5p pieces.

Also - why do you need a receipt when you have bought 2 items worth £1.49?

I always give the right money and l'm not a boomer. Am l bothered by your self importance of how precious your time is? Not one fuck to give!!

You can still be an ageist arsehole.

Who’s “they”, if you’re also a boomer?

Oooooh, busted!

I use self scan and tip all my lose change in. I never use manned tills unless its store without selfscans or scan and shop

@herbalteabag
Oh God, I had this when I worked at Marks and Sparks!

Older well off looking couple handed a load of shopping vouchers over. They asked for the manager when I pointed out that they were clearly 2 years out of date, then the manager told them exactly the same thing!
Then all their anger and annoyance while having to use their gold credit card instead, was taken out on me, as obviously I should have just blindly accepted the vouchers in the first place! Absolute grifters!

I thought it was very kind of the op to basically reveal they have precisely zero math skills…. That’s what this boils down to, they struggle to work it out. The fact they are scoffing at someone giving the odd change with a fiver means they simply don’t understand how to work out what change to give. You know, basic maths that a primary school child should be able to work out.

I’m Gen X and I generally use my card to pay. I apologise if it’s low value as appreciate that costs the business more than if I were to use cash. But if I have cash on me, I reserve the right to use it. And of course you check your change there and then. When the cashier is clearly not confident in calculating the change, there’s a higher likelihood a mistake was made, and pretty much every shop says check your change at the till as mistakes cannot be rectified after - because people lie.

Oh and the receipt? I ask for a receipt as I’m often going into other shops that sell the same item and I don’t want to risk being accused of stealing it.

And it’s not like when I used to help in a relative’s shop - the till works it out so you don’t have to strain your brain too much.

oh go away with your revolting ageism.

it is tedious.

God your a miserable cow
are you unhappy about your wrinkles or your weight today

the only person I know that insist on card is my drug dealer - he will take cash but charges extra for it 😂

I pay cash every where I can and if it means annoying the person who job it is to take my cash then I consider it’s my good deed for the day

Mine always works first time. I have Google Wallet. I don't need to pay on the bus as I have a senior bus pass.

I was served by a surly passive-aggressive cashier of about my age in a shop the other day, and she was having trouble disguising her contemptuous disdain for her customers.

So there must be more than one of them.😂

When I’m doing my stint at the local charity shop I love people who pay with correct money as it helps our change situation now the last bank has closed. I make time for every customer, some pay with their card/phone/watch and don’t want to engage, others want to talk, I might be the only person they have talked to all week, yet I can manage the queue too, there’s a knack to appearing to be generous with time yet not keeping people waiting unnecessarily.

This thread has cheered me up on a Sunday morning. It's no wonder grandparents of today don't have time to look after their grandchildren they are all too busy getting riled up, swearing and insulting people on the internet. I wish my mil would do it on mumsnet instead of Facebook where everyone can see her full profile.

Can you go through my house for me please lol 😆

Doctor's receptionist?😁

Better arguing on the internet than having to spend your retirement years running around looking after everyone else’s life choices

Nah, you’re exaggerating.

In your own house the most likely place for cash is in pockets of coats and jeans. I once bought a pair of jeans on Vinted for £10. There was a £10 note in the pocket 😂

Also check the washing machine filter and the bedside table of any males (women don’t seem to dump cash there but men do).

as a "boomer" I have not paid in cash for years.
why do mn hq allow such ageist crap.

That’s a bit judgmental, my mum and dad are nearly 80 and use card.

Thanks 😊 and lol free jeans!!

I confess that on the odd occasion I do pay with cash, I like to give the cashier the change as well (so if £10.30, given them a £20 note and 30p in change. Older cashiers are great with it and usually appreciate it. But the mental gymnastics that some of the younger cashiers have to go through (despite having the till to work it out) is kind of entertaining.