HA! That's why homeschooling is the way of the future. That is until the NEA is disbanded and the Department of Education is done away with.
ROFLMAO
LOL! Good stuff!
BTW, I hate being bothered by all things Math. I just use a calculator. ;^)
Great post.
This has happened to me more than once. I had to explain to the clerks, "Just punch the amount I gave you into the computer." In one case, the amount was odd, I gave an odd amount in payment, and received a dollar bill in change. "Duuude, that was awesome!" was the clerk's reaction.
This is making me feel old- I had to learn to make change in my head.
My wife tried to pay with cash once at a mall store, and the clerk had to call the manager. She didn't know how to process a cash transaction!
There's been a few times when I've given them change, confused the cashier and I got extra money back.
PING
I am one that usually has the "over-the-top" amount of change available so that the cashier can minimize the exchange of coins.
With the advent of touch pad registers, like those in the fast food places, they just enter the amount and follow the register's calculation. Seldom do I hear an example of counting back change. Usually those that are without the math skills just quietly place the change in your hand displaying a near total lack of confidence about what just happened.
Across the board, I have observed those working the registers at asian restuarants really perk up when the extra change comes out with the cash. One, they appreciate the courtesy being extended to the cashier (more change available in the till), but also it is like one can see the little wheels spinning. They like the extra math. Seldom do I see any hesitation. The same transaction that I worked out as I was heading to the check-out, they immediately grasped.
For the guy/gal in the burger place who begins to panic at the first display of extra change, I now just pull it back and let them process the $5, 10, or $20. It is all they are comfortable to do.
Math: The only universal language.
Joy! My ten-year-old was able to figure the change in her head, and solved the original logger problem in under a minute.
Beautifully explained!
In defense of the young cashier, that kind of thing could happen to many people. When I was a teenager, I spent one summer working in a concession stand at the local minor league baseball stadium. Most nights I was a cashier. Now I was not bad at simple math at all; in fact, at the time I was on my school's math team (we were the "mathletes"). But even I was tripped up by the occasional customer giving extra change to me. The concession stand was extremely busy for several hours each night. I would quickly get into a routine - take the money, punch in the amount, give the change back according to the display on the register. Obviously I could've easily done the math in my head, but there wasn't time to do so. When a customer did something out of the ordinary, like giving me extra change, it threw the routine off and I had to stop and think for a few seconds about what to do. It was especially confusing when they gave me extra change after I had already entered their original amount into the register. I knew how to do the math, I just needed a few seconds to adjust. But even if I hesitated for a few seconds, some jerks would start making condescending comments and explaining the math to me like I was a child.
ROTFL. This is very good.