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Zeus posted...

She's just holding up a waiter -_-

Not appreciably. It's a bit of a pain, sure, but waiters run relatively few transactions. Having one of those take a minute or so longer while they count change isn't going to make a huge difference in the long run, especially assuming she gave exact change and therefore didn't make the waiter count it out before she left.

Zeus posted...

And it's pretty easy to stay ahead of your coins,

Not really, which is why they accumulate. Unless you actively try to use change whenever you pay cash (which, in a retail setting, tends to hold up a line of people behind you while you count it out), change tends to accumulate and just end up piled somewhere whenever you empty your pockets. By and large, change isn't all that useful, which is why people that actually try to use it (like this lady) get vilified for doing so.

Zeus posted...

and easier still to just use credit/debit.

Generally, this is what I do, which is why it's taken me several years to accumulate a few rolls of coins. For somebody that does prefer to use cash on a regular basis, though, change adds up, and isn't always easy to use faster than it accumulates (at least, it's much less easy than just getting $20's from an ATM and using those).

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