I really need to get with the program and have all my withdrawals broken into 20, 50, and only a few 100 peso notes because too few vendors do enough volume to provide adequate change.

I picked out 23 pesos worth of veggies a few minutes ago and my smallest bill was 100, but I did have 3 pesos. I figured that 80 pesos would be easy enough to provide change for. Nope. I would never give a small vendor more than 100 for a purchase of 20 or more without checking that they have change, but I thought that 80 pesos of change would be easy to come by, especially that early in the day. Then again, if everyone does that…

So now, I have to find another way to break that 100 today so that I can give Mr. Veggie Guy the 20 pesos I owe him the next time I see him. But, YES, he let me have the veggies on credit!!!

Oh, well, that’ll give me change for hot dogs tonight, too, which I was going to skip due to my lack of change… I think I’ll do my walk early so I can stop in at a restaurant for a cold limonada after. Hmm, that sounds rather like a good idea. 🙂

I can’t count the number of times since I got here that I’ve not bought something because I only had a largish bill. I even got chicken on credit one day because I only had a 200 and they didn’t have the 150 pesos of change to give me, never mind that just about everyone pays with 50s and 100s.

Really, the solution is to get my withdrawals converted to small bills every time, regardless of the lineup at the teller.