"Would you like the receipt?" "I don't know. Does it have a nice personality?"
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I've given up unless I'll need it for taxes or legal reasons. For years I thought I could organize them. But that's not me.
Business purchase: receipt.
Big private purchase: receipt.
Everything else: no receipt.
I only ever ask for the receipt when I wanna see how much of my food stamps are left immediately after spending some. Or for some kind of electronic device I think might break in less than 90 days.
I thought always asking for a receipt would be more common. I use it to balance my register the next morning every day. I don't mind the email or text ones but paper is just easier to remember.
Balancing your register‽
TIL I'm supposed to be balancing my register every morning. Uh-oh.
TIL
I see what you did there ☺️
There are probably subtle subconscious cues that he’s unaware of himself
Does the cashier seem like she wants/needs me to take the receipt? Will she be crestfallen if I say, "I'm okay, thanks!?"
I always say no because receipts have been shown to commonly contain BPA and other cancer-causing/endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can be absorbed through your skin. The data seems to be mixed on whether or not the dermal uptake is significant enough to pose a threat, but I just don't want to take the chance.
If you have to have a receipt, try to touch it for the least amount of time possible, avoid touching the printed side, and keep it in a container or Ziploc bag in your main bag or somewhere else.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/receipt-paper-harmful/
https://www.ecocenter.org/our-work/healthy-stuff-lab/reports/receipt-deceit-toxic-chemicals-receipt-paper/test-results
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020319863
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33313651/
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/isee.2013.S-2-37-02
I would guess that the exposure to BPAs from handling receipt paper for a few seconds would be incredibly minimal, especially when compared to other potential sources of BPAs like food and drink packaging etc.
Maybe don’t reuse receipts as paper towels or toilet paper, but briefly handling them enough to put in a wallet etc is probably safe in the grand scheme of things.
So yeah, I think I am going to stop using those CVS receipts as toilet paper, but they should have a warning because they look very much like toilet paper.
Crazy this is the first I've ever heard of this
Always ask for a receipt. Let the capitalists sweat a little over the chance of you returning your purchase.
the only place I regularly ask for a receipt is at the grocery store, so nobody can hassle me on the way out. and I do sometimes have to return grocery items
One of my favorite Mitch Hedberg jokes. https://youtu.be/xPq0-8dyl8I?si=hMvEM-iFcJbrC0MA
His joke always reminds me of Patrice O'Neal's counter point:
You left your SI in the link
Thanks, fixed it
Lol I came here just to see if someone had posted this. I think of this joke almost every time someone asks if I want a receipt.
Same, that and his escalator joke. Rip Mitch.
I always ask for a receipt at gas stations with talking pumps because I want to waste their resources. It’s petty and small, but fuck them.
Ha! I always thought I was the most petty and malicious fucker out there for doing exactly this. If they have a working hidden mute button I forgive, but if not I punish them with wasted receipt ink/paper (I don't even look at it!) and fill their trash bin much faster than it would otherwise be filled! Together you and I are going to teach these assholes a real lesson!
Fun fact! If the talking pump has buttons (usually four on each side of the screen), press all of them from the top down right when it starts yammering at you, and one or more of these magical button presses should shut its trap!
I, too, hate being audibly ad-blasted at the gas station.
Most of the ones in my area don’t actually mute, sadly.
I once even had an attendant ask what I needed help with over the little speaker, because one of the buttons was an unmarked ‘call for help’ button.
I did try pushing the buttons the other day and got the same. Basically told them I was looking for the mute button and that their speaker was messed up because a previous person had done some manual percussive muting of their speakers.
When the greetings guy at Walmart asks for my receipt/proof of purchase, I handed to them an continue walking towards the exit.
I don't understand why they love to collect receipts, it is not easy to build a fortress with such, at least it won't be as sturdy as cardboard. /S
I like to think about it for a second or two and then say yes. And if i get one i act like i got the right answer in a quiz.
I tend to switch it up between "No" and "Stare at them without a word until they throw it away on their own", and then there's the rare manoeuvre "Come back in after just leaving and say that I'm sorry but I realised I actually need one this time".
I always ask for a printed receipt. You never know when something breaks and you need to return it or you order food and they get it wrong. It's way easier to dispute stuff when you have a receipt. I'm actually surprised it's not given out by default in the US. Back in my home country it's required by law to issue a receipt.
Always? Like if you buy a juice and bagel, you are grabbing a receipt even if the exchange happens in real time? Why? I always do for groceries and wine (good luck bringing in a rotten watermelon and just telling them you bought it there yesterday), but not much else.
Can someone explain to me what's the joke ? I don't understand...
Not sure there is a joke in there. For some reason the question kind of surprises you and you have to quickly decide on the spot whether to have the receipt or not. So you end up winging it, sometimes having it, sometimes not.
Nowadays, I mostly decline but on occasion still end up agreeing, so I can relate.
I think they might be European like me. What question?
In the US, you often get a choice (via the PoS terminal or via the person at the register) if you'd like your receipt. Whether it's printed automatically without asking you is in and of itself arbitrary and not even consistent within a single type of business, and there are often several options ("No receipt", "Print", "Email", "Print and Email"). Even if it's printed mandatorily, cashiers will often ask if you want a receipt and toss it if you don't. Finally, different PoS terminals have different interfaces for this sort of thing. So it's generally not at the forefront of your mind, it's not really standardized, and you need to quickly weigh a bunch of factors as to whether you want the receipt and often in what format, so the poster here is joking about how extremely arbitrary their answers are since it usually doesn't make that big of a difference which you pick.
ok I get it now, and yea European ahahaah
but we do have these things here too, I just did not realize that was much of a troubling question. My time of thumb is purely ecological: I prefer not having it. I'd prefer by mail if that's not possible and paper is only kept if there is a debt involved
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