Random musings

[stlouie_lipp]

At the risk of being accused of math shaming or something, I love it when a cashier, usually younger cashier, hits the wrong button on the register. The look of shear panic really cracks me up.

I had a total of $7.25, gave her $20.25, something went wrong with the register and she looked like a deer in headlights. I told her the change is $13 and she says, "thanks, I've always been bad at math". Bad at math? This is basic subtraction, not solving for "x".

[ghostrunner]

I think mental math like that is inherently difficult for some people. The other thing is that you don't get practiced at it when all you do is ring it up on the register all the time. I've worked a few tills in my time and At many places your register gets tallied up and sometimes there's a certain number of times you can be off and by a certain amount. I forget what the penalties were. So you just depend on the register to calculate and help ensure you don't make stupid mistakes. Usually the amount is $5 or some higher amount but every little bit helps. Then you have to do dozens to hundred of those calculations a day vs the one time for the customer. Maybe the not good at math thing is a nervous excuse, or she might just not be very bright. In this case I'd have known since it was even change but I can see others being different.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

It's basically a given that after people say their dog is so well behaved/smart/good that it will do something wrong.

[MrCrowesGarden]

Why in the blue [expletive] when you purchase an assigned seat at the movies in an uncrowded theater and can see which seats have already been purchased would you ever choose to sit next to a stranger?

[jim]

At the risk of being accused of math shaming or something, I love it when a cashier, usually younger cashier, hits the wrong button on the register. The look of shear panic really cracks me up.

I had a total of $7.25, gave her $20.25, something went wrong with the register and she looked like a deer in headlights. I told her the change is $13 and she says, "thanks, I've always been bad at math". Bad at math? This is basic subtraction, not solving for "x".

She was probably just a stupid person. She kind of sounds like it.

[lukethedrifter]

Is blazes an expletive ?

[MrCrowesGarden]

Is blazes an expletive ?

Nope. I pulled a line from The Green Mile for that one.

[wart57]

[wart57]

[Molly]

At the risk of being accused of math shaming or something, I love it when a cashier, usually younger cashier, hits the wrong button on the register. The look of shear panic really cracks me up.

I had a total of $7.25, gave her $20.25, something went wrong with the register and she looked like a deer in headlights. I told her the change is $13 and she says, "thanks, I've always been bad at math". Bad at math? This is basic subtraction, not solving for "x".

She was probably just a stupid person. She kind of sounds like it.

Hubby and I were just having this discussion last night. God forbid you give them pennies after the register has already told them what your change should be!