Tim Streater wrote:

Some 40 years ago I was buying as it might be apples in a greengrocer's
in Naples. Change was 400 lire, and he showed me four 100 lire coins in
his hand. Turns his hand over to drop the coins in my palm, put puts his
thumb over one of the coins. Result: 300 lire in my hand.

As he would have been dropping the coins into my open palm, he'd have
been shown the shortage. Then again, I've been known to mention being
given too much change.

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Tciao for Now!

John.