06-01-2016, 12:23 PM
For various reasons of political idealism, I agree/disagree with you both. I agree the guy's just being a douche and is really only hurting the clerk there by doing that. And he's basically punishing someone else for a mistake (more like an intentional asshatery) that he made.
On the other hand, currency is supposed to be all-encompassing, I feel. I don't think we should have laws restricting what kind of currency we can sue to pay fees to government. It's one thing if a store wants to say, "Hey, I don't wanna get robbed, so let's not accept anything bigger than a $50, eh?" It's another thing entirely for a gov't organization to say, "Screw your pennies, pay me in twenties or I'll have you arrested!" Especially since this could inherently affect the impoverished more than it affects douchebags like him. We have laws where homeless people are forced to pay fines for being homeless and those laws are being strengthened, not loosened, in some places - they can't just go into a bank and exchange their pennies for fivers like most others could.
That being said, he's still a douche.
On the other hand, currency is supposed to be all-encompassing, I feel. I don't think we should have laws restricting what kind of currency we can sue to pay fees to government. It's one thing if a store wants to say, "Hey, I don't wanna get robbed, so let's not accept anything bigger than a $50, eh?" It's another thing entirely for a gov't organization to say, "Screw your pennies, pay me in twenties or I'll have you arrested!" Especially since this could inherently affect the impoverished more than it affects douchebags like him. We have laws where homeless people are forced to pay fines for being homeless and those laws are being strengthened, not loosened, in some places - they can't just go into a bank and exchange their pennies for fivers like most others could.
That being said, he's still a douche.