Making Change

Getting short changed in Italy is commonly accepted

One of the first annoying things I discovered about Italy is every cashier's extreme reluctance to break a 20. I was in Rome on a class trip, and on the first day our professors took us around to some of the museums. Naturally, having just arrived, we did not have an abundance of loose change. Each of us had whatever the ATM machines had given us, predominately 20s and 50s.