Arbitrary rules are annoying.

But sometimes, you can use the rules in your favor.

In this woman’s case, her bank wouldn’t accept coin rolls unless they were full, but she came up with a way to get what she wanted anyway.

Let’s see how she did it.

I can’t deposit change unless it’s a full coin roll? Okay!

So, this happened a few months ago when banks started the whole ‘we no longer accept change deposits’ thing.

Well, I had just come across an old piggy back during some spring cleaning and wanted to deposit the coins I found in my bank account.

Seemed like a pretty standard thing: to want to put money in the bank.

Yup. But there would be an unexpected issue.

I knew I would have to count them myself and put them in coin sleeves.

What I didn’t know until I spoke with the teller is that not only will they only accept coin rolls, they will only accept full coin rolls.

At this point I was furious.

That’s very arbitrary and she didn’t know about it beforehand. But she came up with a quick fix.

Not only will my bank not accept my money but now they won’t accept it even if it’s fully sorted and counted for them.

It was at this point that I had an idea that I’m still kinda proud of to this day.

I asked and found out that while I can’t deposit coins unless the roll is full, I can withdraw any amount of change I want.

How interesting. They were not expecting that!

So after counting up all my change I went back to the counter and asked for 73 pennies, 11 nickels, 19 dimes, and 7 quarters.

And then I watched as the smug look fell off the teller’s face when he realized he’d have to count my coins after all, and this time there wasn’t any stupid policy to get him out of it.

Funny how a bank is refusing to accept money.

Maybe they should reconsider this rule or at least let people know in advance.

Let’s see what Redditors have to comment on this.

Someone shares another story.

That’s an interesting point.

To help fill up the rolls she already had, probably.

This commenter has a different take.

True.

Someone sympathizes with her.

They were only thinking about their own convenience.

But she found a way to roll with it.

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