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Yay basic math skills!

Chaotic42

Chaotic42

Lifer
I got out of class at 10:50 this morning and decided to go home until I had to go to work this afternoon. I stopped in the gas station to get a coke, one of the new "Pitch Black" Mountain Dew drinks. It wasn't my intention, I just saw it and decided to get it.

So I get to the register where a twenty-something girl is taking money. She says "$1.14". I give her a five, to which she responds "I don't have any ones". So, I give her two $1 bills and she gives me the $5 back.

Now the fun part...

She asks "What are the two ones for?"
Me:"I need to pay you for this drink"
Her:"You owe me $3.90"
Me:"I don't think so, I think it's $1.14"
Her (Checking reciepts): "Oh, ok"

She then goes and punches more numbers into a calculator than I can imagine this requiring

Her: "So I owe you like forty cents."
Me: "The total is $1.14, right?"
Her: "Yeah"
Me: "So you owe me eighty-six cents."
Her: "See, now my calculator lied to me... I don't have any pennies."
Me: "Don't worry about it. Have a nice day."

How the heck can you go through life not knowing simple addition and subtraction? I feel bad for the girl.
:beer:
 
Originally posted by: Dissipate
You could have exploited her. A good short change artist would know what to do in that situation.
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Nah, that's not my style.

I half-way wanted to go get her a GED-training pamphlet, but it's not really my business.

I just wonder how she made it out of middle school.
 
I run into that sh!t all the time...if the register is down they are fvcked when trying to make change.


Ausm
 
There's a Dilbert comic that sums this up perfectly. Too bad I can't find it.

Dilbert's in the checkout line at a store and the cashier says something like "Your total is $3.64." Dilbert replies "I'll just give you $4.39 to make it easy." And then the cashiers head explodes.

Well, maybe not that last part. But needless to say the cashier couldn't figure it out.

It was much funnier in the comic strip.
 
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