On 7/2/2012 12:30 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Han wrote:


This morning, my haircutter girl at the neighborhood new Great Clips
made a mistake in entering data into the cash register. Now she had
to pull out the calculator to subtract $7.01 from $14.00. I'm just
saying ...

Why did you have to go there Han? Now it's my turn... I bought something
at a local cash and carry type store. The total came to something like
$7.20. I gave the girl $20.20. Didn't even throw her a curve ball by
giving her a twenty and a quarter - straight up $20.20.

She screwed somethin up on her "think for me"-cash register and had to ask
another cashier for a calculator to figure out my change. I was so baffled,
I didn't even come up with a smart ass comment...

It hasn't gotten any better, and most certainly has gotten worse. Some
thirty years ago I bought something at a store, gave the young clerk a
twenty, and she looked at me very apologetically, as if to say "I'm
sorry, I don't know how to calculate your change." I had to coach her
through the process, and when done, she then did say "Sorry it took so
long." During the incident, I could sense that she was realizing that
either her schooling had failed her, or she had failed her schooling.
Never saw her again.

Matt