Way More Trouble Than It’s Worth, And Yet…

It’s around 1992, and I work in a bank.

Client: “I need [amount around $5,000] in pennies.”

Me: “There will be a fee, as that would require a special order.”

We got it down to $1,000 in pennies and the rest in nickels and dimes. He paid $250 to get it.

A few weeks later, he came in with a Rubbermaid tub full of loose change, which he wanted to deposit.

Me: “You’ll have to roll the change and put your account number on each roll for us to accept it.”

It took him about a month to come back, and we charged him again as his account didn’t have an agreement to accept change; it was a commercial account.

We never did find out what the story was, but one of his employees said [Client] was the sort who would not pay bills until ordered and probably decided to pay someone in change.