For those of you who don't know this already, I am a delivery driver for a
restaurant in Lafayette, LA. The other day I delivered an order to the
courthouse here in town. I was given a check for each of two orders, and a
$10 for the third, for which I was to return $3 in change. I took 3 $1 bills
from my pocket and handed them to the appropriate person. Upon adding what I'd
been given, it happened that the amount they were trying to give me was short
of the actual total on the ticket. When I pointed this out, they referred to
the page they had containing the individual totals for each person's order, as
given by whomever had taken the order at the store, then proceeded to count
what I had in my hand. The checks plus the $10 amounted to more than the total.
But I had returned $3 in change. When I confronted them with this fact, I was
told "But you took that out of your pocket! What's there is enough to cover
the full amount!" Unable and unwilling to tolerate any more of this foolishness,
and realizing that what had in fact happened was a blunder on someone else's part,
I told them to go ahead and pay what was on the page and that I'd have it taken
care of when I got back, and promptly left.
