All About The Benjamins

Okay, so my associate gave me a whole lecture about how I have been an irresponsible co-blogger by not posting anything yet. So as I was contemplating a topic to resume my blogging activity, I was reminded of this thing I used to like doing in school, where I rant on petty things that annoy me and seemed nonsensical to me. Things that just used to ‘grind my gears‘. That being the brief yet, mediocre introduction, let me introduce ato you, this section of the blog, which will appear in random and not in any co-ordinated sequence, namely, “What Grinds My Gears”.

So let me start by asking you, you know ‘What Grinds my Gears?’

Money……

Thats what grinds my gears.

Making Cents

Making cents……… Hmmmmmmm !

I came up with this great hypothesis when I was watching this foreign movie on TV ……… at least within the 10 seconds I was browsing through the channels and reading its subtitles.

The scenes I saw was of a lady giving some change to a shop keeper, when the shop keeper said that he did not have 40 cents with him ………And at that very moment ……. It really dawned on me ……. How this “cents” business really works.

I am no conspiracy theorist but just ponder this though……… Don’t you think that the whole business community is taking us for a hell of a ride at least here in this small miracle….using cents as a weapon?

When was the last time you saw a 2 cents,  5 cents or for that matter 10 cent coin………(may be when you were in 5^th grade). Also when was the last time you received a change in the form of “cents” from any of the shops………

Believe me it’s a multi million rupee businesses… that all of us are involved whether we like it or not.

What is the point of making a product 49 rupees and 49 cents?

There is no logical reason to it except the fact that it is a bit less than 50 rupees … but you pay it any way. It’s all a marketers’ twisted view on things that we eat up like chocolate cake

You never get the 50 cents so why bother about the cent………….

In my though all products should be marked in rupees and should remove the cents in them …. Bring all prices to the nearest rupee with out fooling us all…….. The so called precious customers (Mi @ss)

I am quite sure that they have a column in their account books with the heading – “ Profit made because we never gave cents to those fools”

My estimate for the waste of our cash each year because we never collect change is at least between 5000 to 10,000 rupees………. Kid you not, it might be even more

It is a considerable sum in these dire economically unstable days……… LOL !.

So remember ! The next time YOU decide to buy stuff a bit cheaper ….. You will probably be paying the same amount you were going to so pay in the first place

Now its you time to  you to leave a comment and your POV on this………….. not so important matter.

Till L8r………..!

Masked Out.