Posted on 03/12/2018 7:10:37 PM PDT by rickmichaels
I blame that on their parents. 15+ years ago me and some other dads taught a course to a room full of millennial kids on auto maintenance basics and roadside safety. Taught them how to do basic fluids checks and change a tire, among other things. Two Saturday mornings in length, very hands-on.
After the course, one of them moms (of a macho, pickup driving football player kid) saw me and thanked me effusively for teaching her kid how to do that stuff, saying her Boomer husband didn’t know how to do that stuff either.
If you have $1.33 to give the kid, you would have to be able to give $1.08 exactly, so why the extra 25 cents? I, too, would be taken aback by something so pointless.
But you’d say here, sir or ma’am you gave me too much change without struggling with it. Most younger people would be dumbfounded and couldn’t figure out how much change to give back.
Well, yes, but a better example would have been to hand over, say, $2.02 for a $1.72 order. Lots of Millennials can’t handle that without the cash register telling them how much change to give. Some older cashiers, too.
So...there’s no need to know how to change a light bulb anymore? Either you’re living far in the future or far in the past.
Yeah that’s why I want it only for short-term - a couple weeks at most I figure unless I keep a spare tank.
I’m not sure how reliable those tanks are; given that they go through a lot of exchange.
Anybody know the over/under on shelf life on BBQ gas? (propane tanks). I’ve never had a propane BBQ before.
I guess we know she hadn’t been tagging railroad cars.
Well, that’s just an example. Those were likely not the numbers I had (been several years). So don’t take those numbers as anything more than an example.
For whatever my bill was, I added in a few cents to make it easy, i.e. get a quarter back.
Q: How many radical feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: That’s not funny!
The one thing I remember was I was trying to get rid of extra change so I bumped it up a nickel or so (whatever the amount was) and wanted a quarter back. The guy froze.
After about 15 seconds the manager on duty, a black lady, said “Give the man his quarter!”. I gave her a nod in appreciation.
I run into that situation quite often.
It’s like you handed them a Japanese Yen.
They do not know what to do.
Yep. Often times I’ll have a collection of pennies, dimes, nickels that I want to get rid of. I like to hand them off, because, frankly, they can often use them (so they don’t have to open up a fresh roll).
It was a phenomenon I began to notice about 15 years ago, it seems.
Oftentimes
I have done all three of those.
I may have had 3 dimes and a few pennies. Can’t remember. Should have made it easier on the guy (not that the perpetually-indignant could figure out any other scenario - not directed at you).
let me give you another example - when I was still in the states I used checks without thinking much about them. But here in Poland checks are unheard of - they leap-frogged straight to where cards or cash only are used. And in China most transactions are using mobile wallets
Knowing what to put in your check is no longer needed
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