[onlycafe]

i was on the new york thruway a couple of months ago at about 2 am. pulled into one of the gas and food stops on the road, got a cup of coffee, price was 93 cents, hand over a dollar bill. the cashier hits the total button on the register and tells me;" that comes to $1.01." i fork over another dollar and she takes a full 20 seconds to count out my 99 cents change. seems to me the amount of time for her to count my change cost more than the one extra penny.
conversely, i was in the post office recently and was 6 cents short for a few stamps and the postmaster reached into a drawer and pulled out the extra pennies that i was short and told me to forget about it. of all places to be treated nicely, the post office.
i was very pleased with my government that day.
well , sort of .