zzzippper
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I was just going to post this. It is a well reasoned "square peg/round hole" protection from people throwing away their trays. As far as the trash can, I would just move it with my foot.
I think society is doomed.
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Badkarma 1
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I've seen these types, glued to their phones likes its life or death!
But there are two things you can do about it: One is too stare at them intently till you get their attention, when you do LAUGH at them and walk away! They'll ponder that for hours!
And two: If its during a movie or the above mentioned concert (Those ladies can really belt it out by the way!) go over and pull it out if their little paws, what follows will either be the classic "deer in the headlights" look or something that will remind you of a cat clawing for its life, then say loudly "TIME OUT!!!" They'll sit there or go into babble mode and as you watch they'll either go into withdraw, the fetal position, or a severe case of the DTs, all the while either screaming for their phone back or threating you with their stylus! Oh it's great fun!!
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vito
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If you think young people don't have writing or spelling skills anymore you would be right, but that is nothing compared to the lack of math skills. Many young people, including college graduates, have no number "sense" at all. I worked in the nursing home field and we commonly used digital scales to weigh the residents. I have witnessed an employee, ostensibly educated, not notice that the resident's foot was on the floor, not the scale, and so an obviously full size adult resulted in a reading on the digital screen of 58 pounds. When I told the employee to re-weigh the resident, the employee was puzzled, saying she already recorded the weight as shown on the screen. When I tried to point out that this resident could not possibly be only 58 pounds there was total confusion. Numbers had no intrinsic meaning to her and her math skills were close to non-existent.
I also had the experience in a McDonalds of handing the employee $12.54 for a bill of $7.54. When he saw that my change, as computed by the register, was exactly $5.00 he was astonished and asked me how was I able to figure that out?
With this level of non-education, we are indeed doomed. It does not surprise me that literally hundreds of thousands of jobs go unfilled in this country because employers cannot find candidates with even the basic skills to learn a moderately complex job.
I also had the experience in a McDonalds of handing the employee $12.54 for a bill of $7.54. When he saw that my change, as computed by the register, was exactly $5.00 he was astonished and asked me how was I able to figure that out?
With this level of non-education, we are indeed doomed. It does not surprise me that literally hundreds of thousands of jobs go unfilled in this country because employers cannot find candidates with even the basic skills to learn a moderately complex job.
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pineappleshooter
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This about sums it up.
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Steely Dan
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You boys probably know this but if you are in a rental car or someone else's, you always know what side the gas fill is on by looking at the fuel gauge
There will be a little arrow pointing left or right by the little fuel pump icon
I do this routinely. Most clerks are used to it, but every so often, and not at all rarely, he (or she) will stand there slackjawed, paralyzed by their befuddlement, until I say "Just give me five bucks".
Sometimes I think it's not so much dimness or lack of training as that they are mesmerized by the stultifying boredom of their jobs and the low expectations. But yeah, sometimes they are just dumb.
In my Tacoma truck and my wife's Yaris the fuel gauge is on the right and the gas fill is on the drivers side. No little arrow.
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I've been thinking lately, and I'm pretty sure that our society is circling the drain.
If anybody has seen the movie "Idiocracy", that's what I'm talking about.
Not only the fact that most people in public are plugged-in techno-zombies, but also several times lately, I've seen things that only an idiot would think up.
Things like....
A trash can in a fast food joint with a round hole and a square tray.
A tray that is several inches wider than the hole you are expected to empty into, so you can't help but make a huge mess:
Or, something like a paper towel dispenser hanging only a few inches above the trash can, so you have to reach INTO the trash can to tear off the towel:
These are just a couple examples, but if you look around, you see it everywhere.
Hang on, folks! It's going to be an interesting ride!
I noticed that too. I dont eat at junk joints like McDs etc. Usually, I slide the trashcan out of the towel dispenser and my way w/ my foot, then I proceed to wash hands. Also, what gets me EVERY time is, that after you finish washing my hands and before turning off the fawcett, I do so w/ a paper towel in my hand. If you dont know why? think about ut. After using the bathroom, you HAVE to touch the handle on the fawcett to turn it on to wash your already soiled hands. OK fine and dandy, we all knew that already. Next comes using soap--and many do NOT use any soap) you wash and rinse hands-then what most people do--is to grab the unclean handle to shut the water off. Aka, your hands are no longer clean.
Another that gets me are handles or knobs on any door the general public has access to. They are also never clean. Say if entering a restroom, doing business and even being careful to use a towel to turn off the water. a person will throw away that towel, go to door grabbing bare-fisted-said soiled door knob= hands dirty again.
Im no germaphobe, but if you think about it? you will see what I mean. All it takes is ONE person using restroom and not washing hands and touching that knob you will eventually touch. Personally, I dont want another persons germs--I have more than enough of my own to live with.
A couple well-known personalities who do as I do and carries a napkin or something--purely to use for opening doors in public places.
Radio talk show personality: Michael Savage does it, Bill O'Reilly does it, and others also admit to it. I carry several napkins w/ me-for throwing away after using it somewhere-and stocked w/ another to use elsewhere.
kwselke
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Or, something like a paper towel dispenser hanging only a few inches above the trash can, so you have to reach INTO the trash can to tear off the towel:
These are just a couple examples, but if you look around, you see it everywhere.
Hang on, folks! It's going to be an interesting ride!
After you took the picture of the men's room trash can did you pull the can out from under the towel dispenser, then wash and dry your hands?
I'd be more concerned that it was over flowing than it being out of position.
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After you took the picture of the men's room trash can did you pull the can out from under the towel dispenser, then wash and dry your hands?
Dryed my hands on my pants.
kwselke
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Dryed my hands on my pants.
Yes the Hillbilly way. Back pants pockets only so you cannot see the stains!
And everyone else can misinterpret them.Yes the Hillbilly way. Back pants pockets only so you cannot see the stains!
finesse_r
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40 + years ago checkers would check groceries or other goods for 8 or at times 10 hours and make literally hundreds of such computations in their heads while making change, and then run a tape at the end of the shift and have it balance out to the penny, well at least much of the time. LOL
Now to be a checker all you have to do is know what the picture means, or use a scanner, and count out the change the cash register tells you to count out and pray it does not have a glitch in it. Also with these electronic cash registers, when they do break down and they do break down, the place is out of business unless they have backups, which not all do.
all of Wal-marts registers crashed the other day except for the self-check out ones. LOL Someone there said they were only allowed to have one register per day repaired. LOL I just left and went elsewhere.
Now to be a checker all you have to do is know what the picture means, or use a scanner, and count out the change the cash register tells you to count out and pray it does not have a glitch in it. Also with these electronic cash registers, when they do break down and they do break down, the place is out of business unless they have backups, which not all do.
all of Wal-marts registers crashed the other day except for the self-check out ones. LOL Someone there said they were only allowed to have one register per day repaired. LOL I just left and went elsewhere.
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When I was much younger and working at a Circle K convience store, we had a power outage that lasted several hours. The Rushy Registers couldnt work. We simply did all cash transactions writing it down on a paper bag. Both mine and Sarge Bill's figures came out to the Penny. They lost thousands due to not being able to sell gas.
40+ years ago as a "ute",I worked in German delis-we figured everything on the back of the bag.
For the last 38 years,I've been in the cash register business,mostly doing the old mechanicals for bars,as well as a few electronics.It's getting to be that any employee under forty is amazed that the old ones don't add or calculate change.
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As long as the masses are pacified with "bread and circuses" provided by the rulers, nothing else matters...... 
My wife says that people were wetting themselves about Y2K fearing that all the worlds computers would fail.
Well Y2K did happen, except that instead of failing, computers and electronic gadgets took over making thinking obsolete.
Unless, you happen to live in a backwards little town in the mountains of West Virginia.
The stores stayed open during our last power outage. They didn't need no fancy electrictonic gadgets to figure up a bill or count out change. I guess I should correct that and say store, just the one.
Well Y2K did happen, except that instead of failing, computers and electronic gadgets took over making thinking obsolete.
Unless, you happen to live in a backwards little town in the mountains of West Virginia.
The stores stayed open during our last power outage. They didn't need no fancy electrictonic gadgets to figure up a bill or count out change. I guess I should correct that and say store, just the one.
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