Minor things that bother you

[kernals12]

That the fictional Caribbean island immortalized by the Beach Boys shares its name with a real town in Indiana that is not at all tropical or exotic.

[SEWIGuy]

That the fictional Caribbean island immortalized by the Beach Boys shares its name with a real town in Indiana that is not at all tropical or exotic.

The fictional island was not Caribbean since it was "off the Florida Keys."

[Max Rockatansky]

Kokomo, Indiana seems far more exotic at this point of my life than the Florida Keys or other tropical locales.

[kernals12]

Kokomo, Indiana seems far more exotic at this point of my life than the Florida Keys or other tropical locales.

I wonder if that Honky Tonk from Blues Brothers serves tropical drinks that will melt in your hand.

[Max Rockatansky]

Outside of resorts and restaurants how often do you really think tropical mix drinks in the Keys were a thing?  The local marina only sold beer and I had to go all the way to Big Pine that to find a bar that served mixers.

[GaryV]

Kokomo, Indiana seems far more exotic

At least they didn't pick Goshen or Wabash. Think of trying to fit the rhythm to those names.

[GaryV]

wrong for citing Cuba as the the queen of the Caribbean

Cuba (plus Hispaniola and other smaller islands) define the northern edge of the Caribbean.

[Scott5114]

When you place an order at a fast food restaurant. You list the items in a nice understanding way. You're not talking faster than they're ringing up the item. You pause between items so they can easily comprehend it.

Yet they still ask you what comes after the first item or some will ask you if they're anything else you want to order making you think they've rung in all your list when in reality they only rung in the first of your list.

That's why I ask for them to repeat the order to see what they rung up so I  don't get short changed before I pay.

Joe Pesci was wrong. They don't f you at the drive thru over the counter. They F you all over.

Some registers will require the items be entered in a certain order. At the Burger King I worked at, if someone ordered a combo, it would first show me the sandwich so I could add or remove toppings, then it would show me the sides, and only once I had selected a side it would show the drinks.

People would try to do things like say "I want a #1 with cheese, with a Dr Pepper as the drink, and no ketchup on the burger, and a large order of onion rings" and it would just fuck everything up to an unbelievable degree because you'd have to go back and delete and re-add stuff and while you were doing that the customer would barf out some other instruction that it would somehow be your fault for forgetting. That's why you get people interrupting you as you're ordering—they are forcing the interaction to follow the order that the register will accept the commands in.

[LilianaUwU]

When you place an order at a fast food restaurant. You list the items in a nice understanding way. You're not talking faster than they're ringing up the item. You pause between items so they can easily comprehend it.

Yet they still ask you what comes after the first item or some will ask you if they're anything else you want to order making you think they've rung in all your list when in reality they only rung in the first of your list.

That's why I ask for them to repeat the order to see what they rung up so I  don't get short changed before I pay.

Joe Pesci was wrong. They don't f you at the drive thru over the counter. They F you all over.

Some registers will require the items be entered in a certain order. At the Burger King I worked at, if someone ordered a combo, it would first show me the sandwich so I could add or remove toppings, then it would show me the sides, and only once I had selected a side it would show the drinks.

People would try to do things like say "I want a #1 with cheese, with a Dr Pepper as the drink, and no ketchup on the burger, and a large order of onion rings" and it would just fuck everything up to an unbelievable degree because you'd have to go back and delete and re-add stuff and while you were doing that the customer would barf out some other instruction that it would somehow be your fault for forgetting. That's why you get people interrupting you as you're ordering—they are forcing the interaction to follow the order that the register will accept the commands in.

Am I the only one who generally understands this as a customer? I know there is a certain order to put in orders, so I generally attempt to follow said order. (To be fair, it's the same order as on the menus.)

[kphoger]

[Scott5114]

Fixed?

[LilianaUwU]

Fixed?

We may as well find other news considering those issues were 2 years ago.

Also, sure. It's fixed.

[Scott5114]

In Oklahoma, I did business with a credit union and a state-chartered bank. Both of these institutions had a self-serve coin counting machine the entire time I did business, so I assumed this was just a standard feature of a financial institution.

When I moved to Nevada, I moved my money to a Nevada-based credit union and an international bank that had branches in both states. The credit union is really nice, but it has no tellers; all cash transactions are done through ATMs, meaning withdrawals are limited to $100s and $20s and they don't deal with coins at all. The international bank deals with cash but if you dare to speak to one of their tellers it will cost you 40¢.

Part of how I save money is by setting aside the coins I get from cash transactions and depositing it into savings. I don't mind rolling it, but do I seriously have to basically throw most of a roll of pennies into the trash just to deposit it into the bank?

Of course one option is to just save it up for a year or whatever, fly back to Oklahoma to see family, and just use the change machine while I'm there, but that seems really stupid, not to mention TSA probably throwing a fit over me having a hundred bucks in loose change in my luggage... I guess I could also see if the cash cage at a casino will take it, or try to find a different credit union or a bank that doesn't charge to see their tellers, but switching between financial institutions is a pain.

[1995hoo]

^^^^

Another option might be the Coinstar machine at the grocery store, if they have one. While those machines charge a fee, every one I've ever used gives you an option to avoid the fee if you take your payment as a gift card instead of as cash. So, for example, if they offer an Amazon gift card, I'll typically take that option because I figure I'll order something from Amazon soon enough. (I haven't used one of those machines in a while, though, because telecommuting means I just don't accumulate many coins anymore.)

[formulanone]

I despise the idea of a bank charging me to take back my coins. (I understand if it isn't a financial institution doing it.)I used to roll them up years ago, but that ended about a decade ago, as my credit union put a stop to that and issued the Coinstar machine. Probably should just look into the gift card idea.

I always say I'm going to just buy a few items and pay in coins but never get around to it. I save a few quarters for occasional parking meters when I travel, but they're almost all going cashless.

[Scott5114]

^^^^

Another option might be the Coinstar machine at the grocery store, if they have one. While those machines charge a fee, every one I've ever used gives you an option to avoid the fee if you take your payment as a gift card instead of as cash. So, for example, if they offer an Amazon gift card, I'll typically take that option because I figure I'll order something from Amazon soon enough. (I haven't used one of those machines in a while, though, because telecommuting means I just don't accumulate many coins anymore.)

Yeah, but the point of doing it this way is to specifically put the coins in savings, not to spend them.

In any case, I thought about it a little bit and realized the Oklahoma state-chartered bank was charging me $3/month to access online banking, so paying 40¢ on the quadrennial-ish Bringing Coins To The Bank event and nothing the rest of the time isn't so bad. (I did also find out there's a 40¢ fee every time you write a check. Good thing I saw that before I had checks printed up for that account.)

[kernals12]

I despise the idea of a bank charging me to take back my coins. (I understand if it isn't a financial institution doing it.)I used to roll them up years ago, but that ended about a decade ago, as my credit union put a stop to that and issued the Coinstar machine. Probably should just look into the gift card idea.

I always say I'm going to just buy a few items and pay in coins but never get around to it. I save a few quarters for occasional parking meters when I travel, but they're almost all going cashless.

The banks are doing you a service by taking away your coins in exchange for a more convenient form of money. It's only reasonable that they charge you.

I'm like Remington Steele; I never carry cash, too bulky

[kernals12]

The abundance of Mercedes R107s in 80s TV shows, they're all over Hart to Hart and Matlock and of course Dallas.

[Max Rockatansky]

The Cimarron dealt American luxury brands a major blow in terms of prestige that decade.  I'd argue it was a blow they never really recovered from.

[JayhawkCO]

I despise the idea of a bank charging me to take back my coins. (I understand if it isn't a financial institution doing it.)I used to roll them up years ago, but that ended about a decade ago, as my credit union put a stop to that and issued the Coinstar machine. Probably should just look into the gift card idea.

I always say I'm going to just buy a few items and pay in coins but never get around to it. I save a few quarters for occasional parking meters when I travel, but they're almost all going cashless.

I know we've all had this conversation before, but coins are the main reason that I basically don't use cash anymore. The only thing I have paid for in cash in the past 6 months has been to get my haircut by a friend. (And the only reason I use cash is because I bartend one night a week and always have a little bit around.) Anything where I'm paying an uneven amount, I'm using my credit card.

[1995hoo]

^^^^

Another option might be the Coinstar machine at the grocery store, if they have one. While those machines charge a fee, every one I've ever used gives you an option to avoid the fee if you take your payment as a gift card instead of as cash. So, for example, if they offer an Amazon gift card, I'll typically take that option because I figure I'll order something from Amazon soon enough. (I haven't used one of those machines in a while, though, because telecommuting means I just don't accumulate many coins anymore.)

Yeah, but the point of doing it this way is to specifically put the coins in savings, not to spend them.

....

That's true, you did make that point in your earlier comment and it didn't really register with me at the time. Maybe you could get yourself a small coin-rolling machine. I used to have one. It was battery-operated and sat on one end of the kitchen counter. You put coin rolls in the respective four slots (it rolled pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters) and you just dumped the coins into the top of the machine. Worked reasonably well, but it eventually broke and I never replaced it. Don't remember where I got it. Most of the ones I saw online just now when I did a Google search look more elaborate and more expensive than what I had. There is no way I spent more than $20 for the thing.

[JayhawkCO]

^^^^

Another option might be the Coinstar machine at the grocery store, if they have one. While those machines charge a fee, every one I've ever used gives you an option to avoid the fee if you take your payment as a gift card instead of as cash. So, for example, if they offer an Amazon gift card, I'll typically take that option because I figure I'll order something from Amazon soon enough. (I haven't used one of those machines in a while, though, because telecommuting means I just don't accumulate many coins anymore.)

Yeah, but the point of doing it this way is to specifically put the coins in savings, not to spend them.

But if you get an Amazon GC, just put the cash you would have spent on Amazon into savings, no?

[hotdogPi]

I feel like Scott is the type that would refuse to use Amazon due to its business practices.

I've found that by using exact change at most stores much of the time, I use about as many coins as I receive (except quarters, where I use significantly more than I receive).

[JayhawkCO]

I feel like Scott is the type that would refuse to use Amazon due to its business practices.

I've found that by using exact change at most stores much of the time, I use about as many coins as I receive (except quarters, where I use significantly more than I receive).

They probably offer other companies that are less Bezos-y.

[1995hoo]

I feel like Scott is the type that would refuse to use Amazon due to its business practices.

I've found that by using exact change at most stores much of the time, I use about as many coins as I receive (except quarters, where I use significantly more than I receive).

They probably offer other companies that are less Bezos-y.

I cited Amazon simply because it's the one I always chose. I know the machines offer other options—or at least, they used to (as I noted, I haven't used one in a few years)—but I just don't remember what the options were, nor do I know whether every such machine necessarily offers the same options.