Apparently it is.! The art of counting back change is all but dead. Heck, I was counting back change, when collecting money for my paper route, when I was in grade school!Was at Walmart in electronics, person in front of me had spent a hundred some dollars, gave the teen checkout girl $130 in 20's and a 50. She couldn't count it. Tried 3 times and could not figure out how to count up on the odd number. She finally handed it back to the customer and asked them how much they had just given her.
Was at the gas station getting a fountain drink $1.18. I didn't have a dime, nickel and 3 pennies so I gave her a quarter and 3 pennies along with my dollar. I get a nickel and 4 pennies back.
not only did I throw her off she couldn't count back the correct change. Is it really that hard?!
Now, I generally give cash in whole dollars, and never, never hand a clerk inexact coinage. Needless to say, the squeeze type change carrier (Yeah, that's right...the kind old men carry) that I use is always full.
But in defense of Wal-Mart employees, At the Martinsville store on Sunday, I was waited on at the ammo counter within a minute, and she even checked out a couple cans of Seafoam, so I wouldn't need to stop at the checkout when I left!