Buggin
Something's been buggin me ever since this morning. As yall know, I kinda celebrated my birthday today and as a birthday present for myself, I got a Sonicburger and fries. What's buggin me is what happened there. I gave the girl a $20 bill to pay for the $4.48 cost. She had to get out a calculator to figure out the change!!!!! Have we come so far that our young people need a calculator for such a simple task? Before she even took the calculator out, I knew what the change would be. How hard can it be!!!! Do we, now, have an educational system that doesn't teach simple math? I could have made that change when I was 9 years old! Granted, as most of yall know, I grew up in my dad's grocery store and started handling money early in my life. But such a simple calculation???? Think about it. When was the last time someone counted back your change. I know I can't remember. They just give you your change and tell you how much it is. The cash register figures it for them. And it's not new. When I was graveyard manager of Sambo's, I caught a waitress giving back the wrong change to a customer 30 years ago. The cistomer had given her a $20 bill and she was giving him back change for $50!!!. Why? Because she had put $50 in the register as his payment and the register, not knowing the difference between a 20 and 50 dollar bill had told her to. What happens when the batteries run down? Or when the electricity goes out?
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