I am probably one of the few people left that actively pays cash for everything.

I bought a wallet with a change pocket in it for this very reason - I love giving exact change or getting close to it.

Now something I have noticed is how hard it is for many cashiers anymore to process actual math.

If I cannot pay the exact amount, I pay (if able) enough to round it out to the nearest dime or nickle. And example is if you're bill comes to $4.49 - I will usually give a $5 bill and four pennies to get back 55 cents - two quarters and a nickle.

Lately the common theme is being handed back my clinky change as they process the bigger bill and give me even more pennies, ask me why I would even give them clinky change and then proceed to argue with me that the big bill is sufficient to which I retort with some thing called -oh I don't know -"logic", and today was a new one as I stopped for a bottle or water.

I broke the poor kid behind the counter.

My bill was like $1.98 and I gave him two dollars and 3 cents and he just stared at the bills, then the three pennies and continued to do so in what I can only describe as waiting for a divine intervention - until the smoke started pouring out of his ears and I had to explain to him that he is to give me back a nickle, and not two pennies.

This confused him more until he actually put the totals into the register and then smiled when my math was correct and he gave a relatively innocent, "Aaaahhhh...!"

We're a doomed society....