at TallG... I googled for 'coin shortage in Qatar' and came up with only one such story for it, on Qatarliving. Here is the link: http://www.qatarliving.com/node/304249 . All the other stories were pertaining to shortage of gold coins. Sincerely, I haven't heard that Qatar was having a shortage of coins. Now that you have said it, I'll enquire about it. But until I hear positively, what these big chains are doing IS INDEED day day light robbery.
at Qatarilady and chmb... thanks. That possibility never entered either mine, or the cashiers, minds.
at Britexpat... that's indeed a wonderful thing to do. Wonder if they'll start that in Qatar as well?
at Scorpio... LOL about the signboard idea... maybe they could say banana flavoured--> 25 dirhams (since it's the most popular), orange flavoured--> 50 dirhams (since that's what the man gave instead of 50 dirhams) and mint flavoured--> 75 dirhams (I guess you also get that taste when you chew a banana and orange flavoured gum together, LOL)
at TallG... I googled for 'coin shortage in Qatar' and came up with only one such story for it, on Qatarliving. Here is the link: http://www.qatarliving.com/node/304249 . All the other stories were pertaining to shortage of gold coins. Sincerely, I haven't heard that Qatar was having a shortage of coins. Now that you have said it, I'll enquire about it. But until I hear positively, what these big chains are doing IS INDEED day day light robbery.
at Qatarilady and chmb... thanks. That possibility never entered either mine, or the cashiers, minds.
at Britexpat... that's indeed a wonderful thing to do. Wonder if they'll start that in Qatar as well?
at Scorpio... LOL about the signboard idea... maybe they could say banana flavoured--> 25 dirhams (since it's the most popular), orange flavoured--> 50 dirhams (since that's what the man gave instead of 50 dirhams) and mint flavoured--> 75 dirhams (I guess you also get that taste when you chew a banana and orange flavoured gum together, LOL)
at ka78... sigh, I know...