A Straw Poll

The Scene: You're at the store buying something with cash (difficult to envision this situation in our plastic day and age, but work with me here). The cashier hands you your change, coins neatly piled on top of the bills. Do you find this practice A: Helpful or B: Enraging?

I find this to be helpful because I can use the bills to funnel my coins neatly into my coin purse, but this practice enrages Adam and is one of his biggest pet peeves. Lately, he has taken it upon himself to invoke social change by explaining to unsuspecting cashiers why this whole “coins piled on bills” business is most unhelpful. Since most men carry their change in their pants pockets and bills in their wallets, receiving change in the form of “coins piled on bills” requires them to free both hands in order to stow coins and bills in their separate locations. I propose two solutions to this irritating problem.

1. Cashiers should be trained to discern when to use the “coins piled on bills” method versus the “hand over bills then coins” method. Patrons (women or men carrying stylish “European Carryalls”) who pay out of a wallet that is coin enabled most likely prefer the “coin piled on bills” method while patrons (men or women carrying coin disabled wallets) who fish their coins from their pockets and bills from their wallets most likely prefer the "hand over bills then coins" method.

2. Men should carry coin enabled wallets or coin purses.