So, metaphorically speaking, he was now down to counting out change.
Mr Peterson grew up counting out change in the family diner in Nebraska.
The mother tongue she uses "like a baby", counting out change in halting Cantonese, is mine, too.
This time, after handing me the package and counting out change, he asked, shyly: "Did Mr. Obama win the nomination?" "Yes," I said.
He shopped for soda and sweets at Adam Altareb's 99-cent discount store on 10th Avenue, counting out change or small bills at the counter.
In person, Mr. Sorokin is diffident and thoughtful; a former stutterer, he releases words into the air around him as carefully as a cashier counting out change.
Maybe some fabulously inventive bus company, or at least one whose execs have visited Amsterdam, will try out ticket-strip sales in local shops to end those jams caused by overworked drivers counting out change.
When Benny awoke, he and his mother slowly made their way to a friend's house in Brooklyn, with Benny reading the subway stops out loud on the way, and counting out change at a vegetable stand.
What I have observed, I am sure, is not the product of bad luck: a not-insignificant fraction of people paying in cash (counting out change... for a while... holding up the line).
A transaction using a paper check takes on average about 64 seconds; credit card transactions take 40 to 45 seconds; debit cards about 35; and cash about 29, which includes the "fumble factor"–allowing the clerk to count out change.
