Dutch people be like

I work at a bakery in Germany that’s open on sundays (most things are closed). Yesterday was absolutely flooded because of Mother’s Day and we kept running out of coins.

I had a man wait over five minutes before I was able to give him his change of one cent. I wish I were so in charge of my finances.

That's why I hate X.99 prices.
Just make it 4.50, 4.80, 4.90 or 5.00
- If it helps, it was a price ending in a different digit. It ended in six, he gave me seven cents, and wouldn’t accept my offer of his two cents back and I’d be happy to pay the difference personally. He wanted to pay exactly what he owed, which is his prerogative.
1 cent?! We don't even deal with those fiddly little coins in our shops anymore. 5 cents is the smallest change.
- We just got this rule in Estonia too this year. Cash payment, round to nearest 5 cents, card payment, still exact number.
- The price of our plain Brötchen is indivisible by five, which means I get to impress the shit out of people with very basic mental math, but we do have to mess with the fiddly coins. Normally people are a little embarrassed and grimace while waiting for a tiny amount of change, but this guy was chilling. Honestly, more power to him.
Germans' hate for electronic payments strikes again
Yes, getting rid of 1c 2c and 5c would be great

Here's it is without the pointless first half.

Here it is with an elongated first half
To each their own.
- It's so weird how Americans turned this phrase around. I looked up why a while back and apparently it was just to make it sound fancier initially and then it caught on. Either way, each to their own.
You may not like the format, but it was used correctly in this case.

How many half A presses is that when converted?

Hahaha I’m curious how many people know the word ‘Pannenkoek’ just from the Mario 64 youtuber
- I didn't know it was dutch until this post lol. But it's obviously pancake looking at the word. Or so I thought! Looking it up it's specifically a Dutch Pancake?
  Is there a different word for a western pancake?
About 1/1000th of a washing machine.
(Ironically, this was my 1000th comment on this account on Lemmy)

0.05 Mcdonalds mayo (you dipped once)

they might settle for a stroopwafel, or a handful of hagelslag

Hagelslag only on buttered bread.
- that's the way! and the stroopwafel slightly heated up above a cup of a hot drink

Wait like, between friends?

Euh, yeah. Usually in the group chat.
- Times like these I think the Hellenes had it right with the idea of xenia.
Yeah. We use it to settle a lot of things with friends etc. Going out for dinner or having a drink at someone's place? Split the bill and send everyone a Tikkie. Sometimes there's even multiple because someone paid for the beer and someone else for the pizza.
For context: in the Netherlands we generally pay using debit card instead of physical money or credit card. Almost every bank has their own "Tikkie" service nowadays. There's also Splitser, which allows you to keep track of who paid for what over a longer timeframe with more people. Like a holiday with friends.
- Yeah but for €0.43? Here in the states people tend to think more like "it'll even out" especially among friends.
  I wouldn't ever ask my friends to pay me back $0.50 lol

Lmao. When I lived in Austria I remember I chilled with a friend and he let me take a couple sips from his Beer.

The next day he asked me to wire him 0.3 euro for half the beer 😭.

I just told him next beer is on me.

Pancakes

I thought I would never need to see this meme format again...

I swear Dutch reads and sounds like an English speaker making fun of German people.

"Ja I joost drooped mein pannenkaken entoo de poopengarten." This is what Dutch sounds like to me, you have a practical rainbow of Germanic languages and then there's Dutch which sounds and reads like a shit post.