to think that a takeaway delivery man has no reason to complain if you pay for part of your order with change?

[BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability]

It's not as if I just tried to pay the whole thing in pennies, it was about 50p of the full amount, and also included a note and pound coins! And he grumbled at me!! How rude!!
There was me thinking pennies were legal tender and all...

Or AIBU?

YANBU, but it is annoying having to handle so much change, so I can see why it would irk him. He shouldn't have verbally expressed this to you though!

They are but there is a max amount you can pay with, I think its 20p but will find out.

You can legally pay with pennies to the value of 20p, he could have refused to take the pennies he didn't. {Shrugs} Was it a nice takeaway though?

Eating it now (cheese, chips and garlic sauce, DH has a kebab). It is v good.

Your first post was at 18.08 so it was delivered by lets say 18.05

You are eating it at 18.23. That is nearly 20 minutes between the delivery and eating. What are you playing at?

Within 15 mins of my takeaway arriving I have finished and am onto my second glass of wine

Well, I didn't know that about 20p bing the limit for paying in pennies!

OP I wouldn't have though that YWBU before knowing that and still don't tbh.

This happened to me the other week with my Chinese take away. I had to raid the penny jar as I realised I was 20p short (2p and 1p's) I handed over my money and he sort of opened and closed his mouth a bit then blurted out that he couldn't accept the copper so I told him he would have to take it back as I had no other money on me. Strangely my copper was good enough then!

Can I recommend the chicken phal and garlic naan with chips to anyone listening?

I'm hungry now :)

Can I just chuck in another thing about money?

Legally you are oblighed to pay the exact amount - if you pay for something that is (say) £15 with a £20 note, there is no legal obligation to give you change.

Just thought I'd mention it.

trios huh?!

aw balls trois

What would they do about it if they'd handed over the goods and I then paid using bags of pennies? Call the coppers?

I've never heard of the 20p thing... how on earth do you find this stuff out?

And there's no obligation to give me change? Is that just takeaway deliveries or everything?

But this is all nonsense!

BAHAHAHHAHAH just spotted my own joke there about the coppers...

ohhhhhhh I kill me

trois speaks truth

But legal tender is only the money they are obliged to accept to settle a debt. They can choose to accept other payments (even if that's £100 in coppers) but if you are doing it to hack off someone you owe a debt to, then they can just refuse.

Tbh, working in a small shop I was always delighted when customers paid with a fistful of change (so long as the shop wasn't busy) because then I didn't need to worry about getting more of it in.

Thank you skiiinggardner

from the Royal Mint site : In order to comply with the very strict rules governing an actual legal tender it is necessary, for example, actually to offer the exact amount due because no change can be demanded.