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Show The "Change" He Didn't Get. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) "I figure that one of the cash register companies owes me 15 cents and the interest thereon," remarked J. D. Brown, city passenger agent of the Erie road the other day. "When I was on a trip out west not long ago, our train stopped at a small station for lunch. About the only industry in-dustry in the town was one small restaurant res-taurant that was conducted by two women. Just for the sake of being up to date they had put in, a day or so before that, a brand new cash register which glistened on the end of the lunch counter. Now mv meal came to 35 cents. I handed the women a half dollar and saw her ring it up on the cash register. A few moments before time for the train to start on I asked the woman if I didn't have 15 cents coming to me. " 'Yes, indeed,' she says, frankly, 'you gave me 50 cents and your meal was only 35 cents. You're entitled to 15 cents change.' "But she didn't make any move to get it for me, and I asked her again what about my change. " 'Why,' she says, 'I made a mistake mis-take and rang up 50 cents on this machine. ma-chine. You've got 15 cents change coming com-ing to you, but I can't get it out of there now without mixing the machine's ma-chine's record all up." "I told her that there must be some way of getting around that, but 'she said that if there was, she hadn't had the machine long enough to find it out. My train whistled then and I went on. She was perfectly willing to give me my change, but she sim'ply couldn't arrange ar-range it." |