Last night I needed to park at a meter, didn’t have change, went to my destination restaurant, Neyla, and they told me they didn’t have any quarters at all — none, just dollar bills. Could that even be possible?
Well, thank goodness for the lovely young lady at Papyrus — who told me she had just started there, maybe a student — because she converted three of my US dollars to twelve US Quarters.
Like I said, when I parked outside and didn’t have any quarters for the meter I went in and asked for Quarters.
I asked the hostess at Neyla for change and she said they didn’t have any. I asked for the manager and she led me to what looked like the owner. I asked the owner for some quarters for some dollars and he said that his entire restaurant did not have any change or quarters at all and that he could give me dollar bill change for my $20 bill but physically did not have any change at all in the entire restaurant.
Is that even possible? Or, was the staff having me on? Are there really restaurants that do not maintain a till or a draw with any change or quarters whatsoever?
Back to the young lady at Papyrus at the corner of N and Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown, I really have to thank her! She’s new there and she was lovely. I asked her name but forgot it.
When the manager at Neyla told me there were physically no quarters in their entire restaurant I left the restaurant and headed across the street to the store on the corner and told the woman working there there that I would be happy to buy something there but what I really needed was quarters for the meter
She told me not to buy anything and asked me how many quarters I needed — she told me I didn’t need to buy anything at all and was happy to help me out!
She told me that I probably needed three dollars of quarters and she broke my twenty and returned to me 12 quarters and I was on my way.
God bless her!
I will surely make sure I make a special trip for all of my stationary and printing and wrapping paper and blank journals and greeting cards and even any fancy fountain pens and gifts I might need from Papyrus in general and the 1300 Wisconsin Avenue Papyrus in particular!
Sometimes it only takes the lethal generosity of one person, even the evening shop girl at a corner stationers, to make the day of someone who was very close to being super-bummed.
Thank you very much Georgetown Papyrus girl!
(More background on the evening over at Why Neyla Mediterranean Grill Sucks)
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