Hello Hivers, Today I am here to talk about an important topic which I don't just talk about online but also in my real life. Did you know I got in trouble because of my passion to make people understand the value of a cent?
So, once an uncle came to visit us. He put his money on top of the refrigerator. While taking the money when going out, a coin of 1 rupee dropped. I saw he didn't pick him up. I ask him, why? He said it was just one rupee. He showed disrespect to the smallest unit and that got me triggered. I said, "Those who don't value 1 rupee, don't deserve many rupees." A simple talk between us was reported to my family later that night.
I said this statement in my flow but my family argued later in the night that the person was jobless and was looking for a job. You shouldn't have said it. To me, it was just me being me. Leaked footage of that night (jk):
This wasn't all, once I went to the photocopy shop and the guy charged me 5 rupees for 2 pages although it should be 4. He would have given me 1 one rupee back but he choose violence ;). So what happened was, I forgot to take my 1 rupee back and went home. When I was visiting the same place for groceries on the same day and reminded him of my one rupee, the guy tried to bring me to shame by saying it's just 1 rupee and you come this far just to take your 1 rupee back. Oh, boy he committed the crime of disrespecting money.
I said: "When I come to you, you sit up from the comfortable chair and smile at me. You pull the machine up, put my paper inside, and press some buttons. Why you do hustle for 1 rupee profit? Looks like you understand the value of money. Why is this even a question about me coming back to take my 1 rupee?"
Another example is when samosa was of 3 rupees and I pay 5 rupee coin, they don't return me my 2 rupees while they also don't get 1 rupee advantage and give 2 samosas in 5 rupees. Here you can see it was 25% of my purchase. If they don't give 1 extra then why I give 1 or 2 more? Also, in Pakistan we usually don't go to buy groceries for one month so it's like me visiting same shop 3-4 times daily while being out for other reasons. It's our culture to visit shops alot of times as mostly if someone is making a biryani they will remember that masala pack is not available just before 5 mins. So yes we will have to go to shop if we don't want a world war just to buy one item. Due to culture difference while this issue don't make sense to some, it's a real issue in Pakistan. Also, it's not be just arguing with random people but with someone we see alot of times in day and we know they are just using candy selling strategy on us.
That's not all, I don't like the 49, 99, and 149 price trends. When you ask for your 1 rupee back they never give you. Happened a lot of times with me. Whenever we fill petrol in our vehicles the price is mostly 99 by design. Why that matters? Cause when you have 1 rupee less they will treat you like you are a leech but when you ask for your 1 rupee back you are also a leech? Logic left the chat.
Another time a grocery shopkeeper made a habit of giving me candies for my coins. If I would have bought candies with my own will then that's another matter. But forcing me to have candies is not the best thing to do with me. I tried to argue but he didn't give me my rightful coins. I saved up his candies for a week and then bought items with candies. Ya, I was giving candies as a medium of exchange. He can't argue anymore cause he himself treated candies as a medium. All he wanted was an increase in sales but he was playing a net zero game with me. Of course, he learned his lesson and now he never tries to give me candies.
What are your thoughts about 1 cent? Do you take it back or let it go? Would you dare to try to take my 1 cent when I am morally and ethically the owner of it? Let me know your stories where you try to take your things back from someone. The comment section is all yours.
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we have different view points on either it's worth it to defend what is mine just cause it's a small amount. I don't fight for my penny, I fight against this ideology or culture of stealing alot of pennies one by one from all customers and the culture of requesting your penny back as something wrong. Usually I like bringing justice no matter how many boats I have to burn so yes it's worth my time to bring justice against this culture or other taboos in society.
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