These Dollars Are The Same Size!

Let me start this off by explaining to you foreigners (not from NJ) that in the state of New Jersey, it is ILLEGAL to pump your own gas. Everything is full service. I'm not sure what the reasoning behind this is, but it has a bonus effect of providing me with laughter and joy every time I go out of state with someone who's lived their whole life in Jersey, when they can't figure out how to fill up. I can see how the process might seem easy and pointless to me being a native New Yorker for the first 18 years of my life, but the fact the instructions are right there on the pump give me the pass to laugh and laugh when the born-jersians are struggling.



This brings me to the point of this snoop bloggy blog. A few days ago I'm sitting in my car getting 10 dollars worth of Sunoco's finest (unleaded) into my truck (Toyota Echo) and waiting for the guy (man) to come collect my 20 and give me my change.

Upon handing the kind gas servant my 20 dollars, he responded with "Do you have anything smaller?" Yes. Yes I do. In fact I have literally thousands of 10 dollar bills stuffed into my glove compartment, but I get my jolly's by going from gas station to gas station and conning them into giving me their 10 dollar bills as change for my 20's. I love it. I can see why it seemed unresonable and shocking that I'd have a 20 on me. I doubt anyone ever tries to pay for 10 dollars worth of gas with a 20 expecting the gas station to have change. The state of utter shock and frustration on his face was understandable.

I didn't want him to be wise to my 10 collecting heists, so my I pulled out a nickel and asked if it was small enough. Then he shot me in the face and I'm dead now.