"Steve B" wrote in
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"Pete C." wrote




I have some medical "issues" which are beginning to limit me.

Your excuse to remain comfortably in the operators seat of the rented
telehandler

I have run forklifts for a lot of years, and up to a 60 ton crane.
Looks like I could handle some small trusses and whatever else had to
be hoisted up with these.

Do these people think you can't even operate a calculator?

I expect so, and with recent "graduates" of our "educational" system
I expect they are correct. The latest batch can't even figure out the
mileage their car is getting.

Why do that? Nowadays, the cash register tells you how much change to
give, and if you push a button, there's a mpg indicator on most cars.
You DO have to be able to read the manual, though.

Steve




Why do that? Nowadays, the cash register tells you how much change
to give,

Personal true story (read it on the Internet...has to be true right?). Go
to pizza joint. Bill is 16.21 and I go to register. Open wallet and start
to pull out bills. First a 20. On the ball HS kid sees me pull it out and
punches 20.00 into register. Then I pull out a $1 and give him that and
..21 so I get a 5 back. He goes into toxic shock. Looking around at stacks
of stuff near counter in total confusion. Finally he guesses and gives me
back $4. I says I gave you the extra 1.21 so I could get a 5 back. He
takes the four $1 bills back. Gives me back a $5 & a $1. Owner is a small
business owner and good friend. I give him back the buck and tell him
only supposed to get $5 back. He goes into tilt mode and just stuffs buck
back in drawer. Probably thought I was a flim-flam artist.

But then at that, we, the Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida crowd, are
running the country today...:-(