PeteTheRookie
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Went to get some grub to fix for dinner at the local supermarket.
Total comes to $23.98 and young lady hits the "exact" change key instead of entered $50 that I gave her.
She could not calculate my change in her head OR on a piece of paper!
Now it may be that me handsome son who was with me made her nervous, but even after I explained round it up 2 cents to $24 and 6 is 30 and 20 more is 50 she did not get it. She just gave up and said I trust you and gave me the 26.02 I told was the correct change.
I think this is the NEW MATH. I hear they use it in Washington DC too!
God help us middle aged souls. We have to keep working to pay for the baby boomers retiring before us and we are going to have to work till we drop as the generations after us can't even perform simple arithmetic. How are they going to take care of us when we get old?
Pete
Total comes to $23.98 and young lady hits the "exact" change key instead of entered $50 that I gave her.
She could not calculate my change in her head OR on a piece of paper!
Now it may be that me handsome son who was with me made her nervous, but even after I explained round it up 2 cents to $24 and 6 is 30 and 20 more is 50 she did not get it. She just gave up and said I trust you and gave me the 26.02 I told was the correct change.
I think this is the NEW MATH. I hear they use it in Washington DC too!
God help us middle aged souls. We have to keep working to pay for the baby boomers retiring before us and we are going to have to work till we drop as the generations after us can't even perform simple arithmetic. How are they going to take care of us when we get old?
Pete
