Registering A Complaint
Why the future tense?
I feel like responding "Yes, but how much is it now?"
Or maybe "Great, I'll pay you when I get the cash."
To be fair, the payment is in the future--the immediate future--but really, she's talking about the price in the present.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:03 AM
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That will be $8.45 that you will need to pay me to take home this fine piece of essential merchandise.
What's the alternative phrasing - present tense connotes a demand- Please pay $8.45. and that sounds a little rude (even if it really isn't)
Thinking back to recent commercial interactions- admittedly with bored teen convenience store clerks.=, I think they would just say "$8.45" and I am fine with that
The cashier can simply say "that's $8.45." Present tense works fine.
Or even better, "that $6.45."
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