Note-ably Dishonest

Me: “That comes to $21.50.”

Customer: *Holds up a single twenty.* “This is all I have.”

Me: “Then I can’t sell all this to you. You’ll have to remove some of these purchases to bring it down to twenty or below.”

Customer: “But I really need all this. It’s important.”

The next customer in line feels sympathy for this customer:

Next Customer: “Here, I have a buck fifty. Take it.”

I take it from him, and both the current customer and I say thanks. I hand the customer their receipt, and they put it in their wallet… right next to all the other twenties in there.

Me: “Um, you just said you only had a twenty?”

Customer: “I didn’t wanna break another twenty for just a dollar and change.”