Now watch my head explode

I order lunch at Quizno’s: Price 23 dirham. I pay with a 20 and a 5. The clerk opens the drawer. It has a single dirham coin in it. She says, “Sir, do you have three dirham?” “No,” I reply and she gives me one dirham change.

So my lunch cost me $.25 more than it should have.

Later I cross campus. Before I enter class I stop to buy a Coke. Price: 2 dirhams. I hand the woman a five. “Sir, do you have 2 dirhams?” She shows me her empty cash drawer. I show her my one dirham. She takes it and says, “That’s OK.”

Why the #$#^@ can’t any store or restaurant keep a supply of dirham coins in the register!