Re: CULTURE: It's easier to lie

From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 16:19:29 MDT


On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Harvey Newstrom wrote:

>
>On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 06:14 am, Alfio Puglisi wrote:
>
>> I've seen it all the time, before and after euro. In my city there are a
>> lot of tourists, and most of them are not familiar with Euros now, and
>> lire before. They just fill they hands with coins and let the cashier
>> pick
>> up the right ones, accepting back any change without counting. Happens
>> at
>> little shops and supermarkets too, and sometimes with big notes
>> (10-20-50
>> euro) as well.
>> I never saw a cashier taking advantage of it.
>
>They would never take advantage of it while you were there to see it.
>But seriously, I hesitate to call this "trust". These people are
>obviously doing this because they are incapable of counting out the new
>Euros. How many people used to hand their wallet to the cashier to
>count out the right amount of money sight unseen before the Euro was
>implemented?

As I already said, this was already happening well before the Euro.
Granted, it's usually involving tourists, who probably don't have
familiarity with that strange foreign money.

Alfio



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