Jiang Yifan
In the early 60s, in front of the gate of the Hunan Textile Mill, a southern goods store was built. Big, spacious façade. I heard that it was a new store opened by a supply and marketing cooperative. Selling soy sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, white sugar, rock sugar, and many different types of biscuits, a variety of delicately packaged sugar particles, but unfortunately they are all rare to buy. Brown sugar and white sugar require sugar stamps, sugar particles also need stamps, biscuits do not require biscuit stamps, they ask for food stamps, and a pound of biscuits requires a pound of food stamps. Most families don't dare to use food stamps to buy biscuits to eat, so they have to buy rice to cook and eat.
On this day, I went to make soy sauce. When I walked into the store, I shouted, "Uncle, make soy sauce!" The salesman made half a pound of soy sauce for me with a bamboo hanger, and I was about to leave, when I heard a loud voice in front of the counter selling sugar particle biscuits on the right. Looking at it from the side, it looks like a fight about to start.
Curious, he took a few steps back, closer to the place where he was arguing, and stopped behind the crowd that was gradually surrounding.
Listen to the salesperson say in an affirmative tone, "You didn't give the money." The man replied stiffly, "Give the money! It's a ten-piece piece. The salesman lifted the wooden lid of the cash box and closed it immediately. Say, "In this box, so many ten pieces of five pieces of one." Which one is yours?"
The two argued, and neither of them would budge.
The customer said, "That's it, don't go away, call someone else to call the head of the store."
After a while, a female leader came. I asked the two of them about the situation first, and the process they said was similar. It's just that he said he had given money, and another said he didn't give me money.
The male customer calmly said a four-digit number. He said, "You two take out the ten pieces that are in the money box and look at them." There is a tail number that is this number, which is the ten yuan I gave. No, I didn't give money. I don't have any other ten dollars on me. ”
After a while, the two men took out the wooden box that was placed on the counter. Flipping through the wooden cover, I found a banknote with the same tail number as the customer's number in the messy banknote. At this time, the salesman was looking guilty and guilty. The female leader sincerely apologized to the customer. The customer also reasonably, "It's okay, it's okay." "Pick up the goods, get the change back, and go.
I watched from behind the crowd, chewing on the process. I didn't expect that when dealing with people, there are such details to pay attention to, and I appreciate this person's meticulousness and meticulousness from the bottom of my heart.
When I got home, I told my father and mother about the strange things I saw when I hit soy sauce. After my father's explanation, I learned that on the counter, the salesman has an old rule of three singing, which is also the basic skill of a qualified salesperson.
The old shop apprentices learned these things. I'm a layman, I never knew. It seems ordinary, but it is a necessity in daily business. After receiving the money submitted by the customer, the first song collects how many denominations of money from you; the second sings how much the total number of goods should be collected; the third sings how much money you should make up, and submits the balance of the compensation to the customer with both hands; and finally the goods temporarily placed on the counter are gently pushed and pushed to the customer one by one from the inside to the outside, and the handover is done. At the end, I will add a sentence of silver and goods.
At this time, I couldn't help but wonder that the old colleague in the store would make up for the salesman's kung fu lesson of three singing again, right?
This is something I experienced first-hand when I was about nine or ten years old.
Since then, I have been buying things with banknotes in hand, and I always remember to carefully look at the three or four digits at the end of the banknote before handing over the banknotes, and memorize them by heart, at least until the money and goods are cleared. Especially for money tickets with larger denominations, be more careful. Like the fifty pieces that came out later, and the one hundred pieces. When I get it, I will be very careful to memorize the tail number. The number on the end of this banknote, remember three or four digits and then hand it in, and I have not forgotten it until now. It's just that there are more payments without cash now, and there are fewer opportunities to remember the end number of banknotes.
In fact, there is not much time to really need the newspaper suffix number to distinguish whether the money has been given or not, or to debate who is right and who is wrong. In my memory, there have only been a few times in the past 60 years that have really played a key role.
Remember the tail number, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work, don't be annoyed. It's always good to be a little more prepared for everything, and it's better to be prepared.
This little habit, I guess it will follow me for the rest of my life.
There is a saying that pays attention everywhere is learning, and it is also!
Since then, it can be regarded as another trick.