Waiting for Change

[Nige F]

I love pennies ........I drop them on garage forecourts and outside banks and watch the pensioners pick them up

 

[Thermo]

me and my brothers used to superglue a pound coin to the pavement outside our house and then watch people try and pick it up...great fun
(i used to go and get it up with a screwdriver and hammer when they got bored of watching!)

 

[Softus]

I was listending to a financial advice thing on the radio the other day and they were saying there is no obligation to provide change and that technically, legal tender is only considered so if the correct money is tendered.

This is correct, but the giving of change is an implied term of the contract, since the shopper has a reasonable expectation that change will be forthcoming, and therefore has a right to a refund if it isn't.

As you say, a shopkeeper who decides to experiment with this area of contract law will soon see his revenue fall.

 

[Zampa]

me and my brothers used to superglue a pound coin to the pavement outside our house and then watch people try and pick it up...great fun
(i used to go and get it up with a screwdriver and hammer when they got bored of watching!)

Did you ever try nailing a tin..like a flat cigar tin or one used for plaster to the ground and then putting lid back on?..it was only a matter of time before someone would try and kick it...

 

[splinter]

me and my brothers used to superglue a pound coin to the pavement outside our house and then watch people try and pick it up...great fun
(i used to go and get it up with a screwdriver and hammer when they got bored of watching!)

Did you ever try nailing a tin..like a flat cigar tin or one used for plaster to the ground and then putting lid back on?..it was only a matter of time before someone would try and kick it...

That reminded me of the time my mate kicked a coke can that was standing on a concrete floor on site ,some smartarse had stuck in on a piece of rebar that was sticking out of the concrete and ,he was bent double through laughter after my mate had stubbed his toe on it

Still we had a good laugh at the bloke when he returned back to work from hospital with a broken nose and two black eyes