Posted on 02/15/2021 6:53:19 PM PST by SamAdams76
Before barcode scanners, being a supermarket checker was a tad more complicated.
Have run a calulator since 1956.
Have run a comptometer for years pros 1957 thru 1973.
Have typed on a manual typewriter still—preparing W-2’s, etc.
NO carepala tunnel at all.
Also have had horses for over 35 years, and ridden long distances,50 & 100 miles-— using reins to properly pace a very competitive horse......
Have run a calulator since 1956.
Have run a comptometer for years pros 1957 thru 1973.
Have typed on a manual typewriter still—preparing W-2’s, etc.
NO carpal tunnel at all.
Also have had horses for over 35 years, and ridden long distances,50 & 100 miles-— using reins to properly pace a very competitive horse......
Interesting.
I still have a portable Royal Manual I got in 1969 or so.
Typed many a W-2 & 1099 on that machine.
I was a checker in a Hollywood store run by Hughes.
I waited on Betty White & her mother many times.
Both very classy ladies.
You are damned right we could...STILL CAN.
A really good checker/bagger combo will put all like items together as much as possible.
Bathroom items.....canned goods...frozen goods... fragile items...THOSE teams knew their job!!!!
The skill I learned in Elementary School that most intrigued me (other than reading) was learning about and determining longitude and latitude.
I’ve never had any reason to use it; and I have to agree that typing has been most useful - especially with the advent of computers. I see a lot of people hunting-and-pecking who do very well, but never as efficiently as ‘real’ typists do. We don’t even have to look at the keyboard :-)
I wish I had saved mine. But getting ribbons for them is difficult.
(Until Woolworth’s here disappeared in the early to mid 1970s, I could always find the ribbons there - along with lots of other useful stuff.)
I remember the boys with the price-guns, now.
Well, I can’t look at it; but I’m sure it’s lovely.
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