CAJUNLAWYER
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$2 bills and dollar coins are my favorite currency denominations for the very reason you set forth
I can't tell you how many times a cashier has had to call the manager to find out if they were in fact real currency.
I really did not mean to cause a problem.
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I can't tell you how many times a cashier has had to call the manager to find out if they were in fact real currency."remember the song 'In the year 2525' " ?
Well yeah, and now its stuck in my head and will probably stay there all day. My wife thinks it quite humorous that I go through life giving free math lessons (and math shortcuts) to anyone I think can use them, particularly store and restaurant staff.
Well yeah, and now its stuck in my head and will probably stay there all day. My wife thinks it quite humorous that I go through life giving free math lessons (and math shortcuts) to anyone I think can use them, particularly store and restaurant staff.
BarbC
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I'm still trying to get my head around the part where a husband made a milkshake run for a wife. 
The Highlander
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As a restaurant owner, I will add that when you have literally hundreds of people to feed in a short time period, using the change calculator on the register is a great aid. There are many other things going on that I have to deal with, is my staff handling the weird order correctly, are they being efficient, what is that thug-wannabe wearing sunglasses and a hoodie indoors up to...
As the husband of an educator, I'll also reply to those that bash the school systems. The schools are easy targets for a lazy parent to blame. They have your children for a few hours a day, five days a week, for a portion of the year. YOU on the other hand, have them the vast majority of the time. It is not the sole responsibility of the school to educate, raise, and nurture your offspring.
Many people on this board have the correct opinion that we need to take responsibility for our own actions. Well, you had the child, take a little responsibility for raising it. Don't just blame the teacher because your child isn't proficient in a topic. Get up and do something about it yourself. Maybe something like make sure they read everyday, or review their homework with them, take them for a nature walk, do just about anything and you and they will be better off.
Oh yeah, the same parent that blames the teacher/school because little Johnny can't read, is the same one that jumps on me when I fire their kid because they don't feel it is important to be punctual, follow orders promptly, be courteous to others, or to put their cellphones and ipods down while they are at work!
I gotta go find a cup of coffee.....
As the husband of an educator, I'll also reply to those that bash the school systems. The schools are easy targets for a lazy parent to blame. They have your children for a few hours a day, five days a week, for a portion of the year. YOU on the other hand, have them the vast majority of the time. It is not the sole responsibility of the school to educate, raise, and nurture your offspring.
Many people on this board have the correct opinion that we need to take responsibility for our own actions. Well, you had the child, take a little responsibility for raising it. Don't just blame the teacher because your child isn't proficient in a topic. Get up and do something about it yourself. Maybe something like make sure they read everyday, or review their homework with them, take them for a nature walk, do just about anything and you and they will be better off.
Oh yeah, the same parent that blames the teacher/school because little Johnny can't read, is the same one that jumps on me when I fire their kid because they don't feel it is important to be punctual, follow orders promptly, be courteous to others, or to put their cellphones and ipods down while they are at work!
I gotta go find a cup of coffee.....
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A big + to HIGHLANDER
venomballistics
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reading this ... this MUST be what BHO REALLY ment when he campaigned with ...
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"We need Change"
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"We need Change"
cballman
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Chalk up the truth AAA+++ for Highlander We all need to educate our children in manners and other life lessons.
Actually she fumbled the bills with a confused look on her face and when the manager got there she handed him the bills and said "How much is here?" I kid you not. The salesman wasn't any smarter. He tried to tell me the computer came without an OS and I would have to buy that seperatly even though it said XP Media Center Edition on the box. I later heard that was the store they sent employees that couldn't do their job but didn't want to fire them. No wonder it was the only one that had the PC I wanted still in stock.
highlander-exactly right. my wife is retiring this year from teaching grade school after 40 yrs in the same district. the schooling is being handled at the federal level so much that the ordinary things we learned are not even talked about these days. it's almost like it's intended that the learning is of a lower level. when you have to make things easier so every kid can get a higher score on a test, all you do is dumb it down for the smarter ones. i do the same thing with dollar coins myself. it's a real hoot at a fast food joint.
Smithboomer
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Two-dollar bills, dollar coins and Kennedy half dollars . . . I have GOT to try that the next time I'm not in a hurry. Betcha it will work at 7-11 too.
Chik a Boom
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Bingo, Barb.I'm still trying to get my head around the part where a husband made a milkshake run for a wife.
Back in the "old days" (pre-calculator) when I worked the drive-in cash register we always had to count the money backwards as we returned it to the customer, starting from the total spent back out to the amount given (got that?).
There's a lot to be said for proper parenting, as Highlander said, and it can't all be left for the school system, but I believe that's a whole 'nother thread.
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I was at a neighbor's home the other evening. Their daughter (8th grader) came into the living room to ask about a question in her work book. Yikes! When was the last time ya'll looked in one of those? She was asking about something like this -- A quotient of two radicals with the same index number... blah blah -- (I just ducked for cover
) If the kids of today are passing and understanding what was in that book.... there is no need to worry about their math skills, IMO.
) If the kids of today are passing and understanding what was in that book.... there is no need to worry about their math skills, IMO.
Forester
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Correct. There are engineers and carriers-of-water in every generation.I was at a neighbor's home the other evening. Their daughter (8th grader) came into the living room to ask about a question in her work book. Yikes! When was the last time ya'll looked in one of those? She was asking about something like this -- A quotient of two radicals with the same index number... blah blah -- (I just ducked for cover
A little update, a fact I did not make clear nor consider when I originally posted this thread.
My clerk was not a high school 'ditz". My clerk was an older female and perhaps she was just frazzled. I know that the Braum's has the type register that will do the figuring but for whatever reason she hit a little bump in the road.
Sorry, to have taken so long to get back and thank everyone for the responses, just got assigned a major theft case involving a probable inside job of theft of over $10,000.00 that will require lots of face to face interviews, and called out to process a burglary crime scene for latent fingerprints, and then had night qualification with duty sidearm along with pepperball qualification.
Busy week.
My clerk was not a high school 'ditz". My clerk was an older female and perhaps she was just frazzled. I know that the Braum's has the type register that will do the figuring but for whatever reason she hit a little bump in the road.
Sorry, to have taken so long to get back and thank everyone for the responses, just got assigned a major theft case involving a probable inside job of theft of over $10,000.00 that will require lots of face to face interviews, and called out to process a burglary crime scene for latent fingerprints, and then had night qualification with duty sidearm along with pepperball qualification.
Busy week.
BarbC
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Thanks for the update. I thought you had come home with the wrong flavor.
The Highlander
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I will admit one thing that throws me everytime, and it is always an, ahem, ummm, older generation person that does it.
They will hand you bills, say a $20. We actually have a button on the register that just says "$20" on it, and pressing it will quickly tell you how much to hand them back. Just AFTER you press this button, they will say, "oh, here is another quarter." Great, I was in the process of counting back whatever the idiot box told me, now I gotta do MATH! My brain was already moving on to getting their drinks for them, my hands were on cruise control, and now I've got to stop all processes, and think. Screws up the whole proceedings, and I have a college degree, made a living for parts of three decades doing chemistry and then as a Financial Advisor before "retiring" to buy a couple of restaurants!
They really shouldn't make me think, it messes me up!
They will hand you bills, say a $20. We actually have a button on the register that just says "$20" on it, and pressing it will quickly tell you how much to hand them back. Just AFTER you press this button, they will say, "oh, here is another quarter." Great, I was in the process of counting back whatever the idiot box told me, now I gotta do MATH! My brain was already moving on to getting their drinks for them, my hands were on cruise control, and now I've got to stop all processes, and think. Screws up the whole proceedings, and I have a college degree, made a living for parts of three decades doing chemistry and then as a Financial Advisor before "retiring" to buy a couple of restaurants!
They really shouldn't make me think, it messes me up!
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What is so difficult? Just give em back their change as indicated on the register plus two dimes and nickel.
When i now get the fast talkers I will tell them that "I can't hear as fast as they talk " they usually smile and slow down.
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