BTW – if you’re buying good pants it is well worth it to get the bottoms of the front pockets reinforced with extra material (inside the pants of course) – it is an inexpensive way of keeping keys and coins from tearing the pockets.
The many comments about “change management” are interesting. It must just come naturally to the male of the species, I’ve always just done it naturally because it speeds things up at the register to hand over bills + “just over the amount” of change.
Note that if you’re interested in checkout speed, you don’t want to fuss with exact change. You want to hand the cashier a couple of coins which are “just over” the amount.
Coin purses! Bleech. Nothing is slower than standing behind a person who is fishing in the bottom of an enormous, full, purse for a coin wallet, followed by the long wait for that person to count out the exact change.
(Note that I use the word “person” in the previous sentence to avoid being criticized for using the accurate, but politically incorrect, word “woman”.)
