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Making change at a cash register

Bill Juffernbruch · 2023-09-16T02:36:34Z

Remembered George Schire’s coffee talk a few weeks ago about a McDonalds employee not being able to make change when he paid for a cup of coffee. Well, it happened to me today. I returned an unopen quart can of flat white paint to a Sherman Williams paint store that I purchased a few days ago deciding I needed semi-gloss white instead. I had the receipt, so no problem making the exchange. The clerk, a young man about 25 years old, zapped the bar codes on both cans putting information into the cash register. He then told me the exchange resulted in my owning .37 cents. I gave him a dollar bill, the cash register opened and he looked at the coins in the register with a totally confused look on his face. It was obvious that he couldn’t figure out how to make changes. After about 30 seconds, I said you own me .63 cents. He looked at the coins in the drawer again trying to decide what coins to give me and eventually gave me .42 cents. Another sad example of our educational system in the United States.

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16/09/2023 12:03 pm

@jack-dodds. The good ones are now coveted collectors' items. But so are commodore 64s!

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@jack-dodds. The good ones are now coveted collectors' items. But so are commodore 64s!

For that matter so are ashtrays encircled with scaled down car, truck and tractor tires and Paladin gunfighter ensembles....but I digress.

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16/09/2023 5:30 pm

I have never once in my 83 years needed Algebra, trig or calculus but I have used arithmetic virtually everyday.

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