Paying with Change

Today there was a girl who got on the bus and paid the fare entirely with small change. Paying the $2.25 fare with change is not unusual, however, this girl had an entire handful of coins and I could see at least 20 pennies. It took her a while to pour all the money in and when she was done she was 10 cents short. She was so sure she had counted right that she got down on her hands and knees and started looking around to see if any of the change had fallen on the ground - I would rather break open my wallet and put in another dollar bill than do this. After holding up the bus for almost a minute (a minute is a long time when you are sitting on the bus - in fact one bus minute is more like 10 real life minutes) the bus driver gave up and let her on the bus, which for 10 cents, he should have done 58 seconds earlier (or nine minutes and 40 seconds earlier in real life).