They're Not From Here

There's nothing I like more while waitng in line is to watch the people around me. Especially if it's the person in front of me paying the cashier.

It's actually quite bizarre how many different ways there are to hand over his/hers money!

But the weirdest is when the customer in question is told the amount and he/she pulls out a wad of cash and/or a shitload of coins and hands it all over to the cashier to sort through. As though it's the cashier's job to count out the correct amount (or as close to the correct amount as possible). And these people all seem to be English speaking Australian nationals.

Ok, that last bit may have been somewhat of an assumption.

But these customers in question can clearly speak English without any problems. Probably because it's their first language. But you understand what I mean, right.

And if it's an elderly customer who hands over his/hers money for the cashier to count out, I can understand that. I don't really need to explain why ...

But when it's a young to not-so-elderly person handing his/hers money over for the cashier to count out?

That one is just confusing!

Unless you consider the fact that the person isn't from here ... and from "here" I mean Earth and/or this time.

It makes total sense when you think about it!

Most of the world's currency isn't that hard to figure out, especially if the same alphabet is used. And if you happen to be able to perfectly speak the language, it figures that you should be able to understand the little numbers on the notes and coins.

So unless these people have some very special, rare, unknown mental condition (and I hope not, because then I'll look stupid) that makes them unable to count out money, these people JUST can't be from here. They've got to be some kind of travellers, exploring our planet/time for whatever reason/s.

Hopefully peacable reasons