It's not just pay your damn health care bill" but pay it like we want it!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20110606/od_yblog_upshot/penny-offense-man-fined-for-paying-fee-in-pennies


I'd pay a $500 bill in pennies.

Screw em.

 

How is that any different than some places refusing to take any bill larger than a $20?

 

Because a $100 on a robbery can be a pain in the ass.

Hand a robber $500 in pennies and he drops and runs.

 

Cut the guy some slack. Probably a sportswriter who'd just cashed his paycheck.

 

Stupid way to wage a protest. But I can assure you that if that happened at one job I had in healthcare, we would have taken it and said "thank you."

But if the man had any perspective, pay the $25 bill and STFU. People commonly have medical bills one hundred to one thousand times worse. A twenty-five-dollar bill might be a nickel-and-dime (or in this case, a penny) annoyance, but there are bigger fish to fry. Save your indignation for something better.

 

That's probably more of a security thing. I'm guessing most places that have that policy (small restaurants, convenience stores, places like that) aren't able to break a $50 or a $100 bill without cleaning out the register. Next time you buy a Coke at the gas station, pay attention to how much cash is actually in the register. Not a lot.
Many places require the cashiers to drop their $20 bills in a safe pretty quickly.

 

I've heard this tactic used before, for tax payments (like in the story), and library fines. Stuff like that.

Years ago, when I was a teen, I was in a disputed car accident. I say disputed, because I didn't actually hit the guy, but he claimed I ran him off the road (this was at a mall entrance), and caused him to scrape his 20-year-old car into one of the decoration rocks. Cop came, yelled at me a bit, too. Long story short, guy claimed he had $100 in damage to his shitty car, which wasn't even worth that muc. My father agreed to it to get the asshole to shut up, then I suggested paying him in a hundred $1 bills.

We meet, I give the guy his hundred ones. Guy has this priceless look on his face. He decides to count them out. There were only 99 of them. And the idiot actually complained about the dollar. My dad laughed, and gave it to him.

 

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If the pennies are rolled most places will take them.

 

Why would that be your fault that the subscribers canceled, and why should you have to pay for their lousy retention efforts?

I wouldn't have paid them anything.