Strange About Change

There's a strange thing about change, as in coins, here: people don't want to give them to you. They always expect you to give them the change in coins. They are happy to give you bills, but they really seem to dislike handing out coins. For example, if the price is 12 dirhams and you hand them a twenty, they will hand you back a ten and expect you to give them 2 dirham coins. One time in this situation I started to walk away with the ten and was mystified when they said I owed them 2 until I realized what was going on. If you don't have the two coins, they seem really put out.

Maybe there's a shortage of coins. Maybe it's piling up in jars in people's apartments, like pennies in the US. Maybe people throw them away like my son does. I often find quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies in the trash can in his room. It's a family joke, that Kurt doesn't believe in change.