50 cents

One of the funniest sequences of ‘'The father of the bride'  is when Steve Martin, the father, runs into a supermarket to buy buy hot dogs and hot dogs buns. It is only two minutes and it is worth it, because he is absolutely right. Why the packets of hot dogs or sausages and hot dog buns are not even? I don’t understand! 

 

Normally, the hot dogs come in packs of four and the hot dog buns in packs of six. Then, there are two over. If you get a second pack of hot dogs, you will be two over again. The only way to match them is getting three packs of hot dogs and two of hot dog buns. But, who eats so many hot dogs? Unless you have a very big family, you will have many hot dogs and hot dogs buns over and, probably, half of them will finish in the bin because they will go off.

After this silly thought, I would like to point out another one pretty similar. When I go shopping, I take my trolley with me. Since they stole us the one we had before, Jéssica has forced me to always lock the trolley. Obviously, I am not going to argue because she is right and I really like our new trolley. Until here, everything is fine.

Most of the times I go to Mercadona to do my shopping. To put away the trolley you need a 50 cent coin. And here comes my question: wouldn’t be easier to give the option to pay with a one euro coin? I don’t know you but, first of all, I don’t usually have many coins in my pocket because most of the times I pay by card. However, when I do have coins it is very rare that one of them is a 50 cent coin. Honestly, I don’t think it is a very popular coin and Mercadona should reconsider their policy.

What really annoys me is when you ask for change to one of the cashiers and they give you that look as if you were asking for gold. “Sorry! It is not my fault that you only give the option to pay with a 50 cent coin!” Another solution could be to install machines that will give you change automatically. This way the cashiers wouldn’t lose their time giving coins to people like me and I wouldn’t have to see their nasty faces.

I have to say that not all Mercadona employees are as bad as I said before and most of them give you change without any problem. In any case, I think it will be better if they give more options. Think about it!