how do they survive?

[golfer2]

>>How do these people survive?
>>
>>
>>ONE Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could
>>have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen
>>nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the
>>counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve,"
>>was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order
>>six?" "That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
>>
>>TWO I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and
>>the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up
>>one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed
>>it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had
>>scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider", looking it all
>>over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she
>>said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed
>>my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today." She said "OK," and I paid
>>her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.
>>
>>THREE A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy
>>drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she
>>was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept
>>asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."
>>
>>FOUR I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do
>>you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I should have
>>replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into
>>my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store)
>>would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm,
>>too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it
>>and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the
>>door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the
>>batteries. It's a long walk."
>>
>>FIVE Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day
>>she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of
>>typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," the
>>secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank
>>piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five
>>"blank" copies.
>>
>>SIX A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs
>>to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid was eating ants. The
>>dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should be fine,
>>the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer..... Dispatcher: Rush
>>him in to emergency!
>>
>>Life is tough...
>>it's tougher if you're stupid."

[Catwoman]

I was at a department store picked a item 2 for $10.00 took it to the register and explained 2/$10 she asked me how much would that be.

[blueroadster06]

Ask an young person teenager to make change without looking at the register display.....

[Mike in AZ]

Whenever possible, I will give paper money and some change to make the returning change easier.

This past summer, I remember a (young) sales girl ringing up my purchase and holding out their hand for payment of the $5.16 that came up as total. I handed her a ten dollar bill and a quarter and a penny......... She was stunned. She thought for a minute and gave me back four ones, 84 cents in change and my quarter and the penny. I then handed her back four quarters and asked for a dollar bill. She was again stunned.........

The basic issue is that we have removed the need to use the brain.......

Jeez.

[XSELER8]

Originally Posted by Mike in AZ

The basic issue is that we have removed the need to use the brain.......

Jeez.

The old story. When they gave out brains...some poeple thought they said trains...and they missed they'res

[grimmye]

In the old days when the clerk counted out the change they started with the coins first, which meant they went into the palm of your hand and could not fall out! Now they give the coins after and on top of the bills and they slide allover the place. And IF YOU ASK FOR THE COINS FIRST they act like your try to trick or rob them! I had one who called for Her superviser and said " This man wants His coins first, can I do that?"
grimmye

[RUN ROD RUN]

Originally Posted by Mike in AZ

The basic issue is that we have removed the need to use the brain.......

So long for the good ol' days.

[Maui Mike]

Stupid is, as Stupid does! FG

[hdflstf]

Originally Posted by Mike in AZ

Whenever possible, I will give paper money and some change to make the returning change easier.

This past summer, I remember a (young) sales girl ringing up my purchase and holding out their hand for payment of the $5.16 that came up as total. I handed her a ten dollar bill and a quarter and a penny......... She was stunned. She thought for a minute and gave me back four ones, 84 cents in change and my quarter and the penny. I then handed her back four quarters and asked for a dollar bill. She was again stunned.........

The basic issue is that we have removed the need to use the brain.......

Jeez.

I do that all the time. Usually get the deer in the headlights look.. Once in awhile they will key in the amount I gave tham and they will see an even amount come up as the correct change. Sometimes you can see the very dim bulb get a little brighter when the y figure out what I was doing giving them that wierd amount to pay for the item

[ssr71]

Originally Posted by Mike in AZ

Whenever possible, I will give paper money and some change to make the returning change easier.

This past summer, I remember a (young) sales girl ringing up my purchase and holding out their hand for payment of the $5.16 that came up as total. I handed her a ten dollar bill and a quarter and a penny......... She was stunned. She thought for a minute and gave me back four ones, 84 cents in change and my quarter and the penny. I then handed her back four quarters and asked for a dollar bill. She was again stunned.........

The basic issue is that we have removed the need to use the brain.......

Jeez.

wholeheartedly! I've never been a math wizard, but we're not talking advanced algebra or calculus!


I used to work retail for a few years after I got out of high school (People's Drugs for those that may remember it). Anyway, we didn't have them fancy barcode scanners back then. I actually got pretty good at entering prices with my left hand (I'm right handed!) while picking up and bagging with my right hand. The registers we had were basically calculators with a cash drawer, but even as "primitive" as they were, it still did all of the adding. However, figuring out change isn't that hard.

[Mike in AZ]

I used to work as a cashier in the local supermarket when I was in High School. The cash register had buttons to push and a "grocery" thing to hit with the heel of your hand. It also had a large chrome shift lever for subtotal and total. We had to make change mentally and always balance out the cash drawer.

Does anyone remember the per can price for 6/$1 and 7/$1???? We had to memorize them.... all of them. It was in the late '60s....

Mike

[Focks]

I worked at Skllern's Liquor Store when I was 18. Do you remember getting a case of Coors for $5.88. And that was when you could only get it in Colorado and Parts of Texas. There was a Vette convention in town, and these people were buying 20 - 30 cases or more to take back to New York City. It was pretty funny.

[mcvett2]

Originally Posted by Focks

I worked at Skllern's Liquor Store when I was 18. Do you remember getting a case of Coors for $5.88. And that was when you could only get it in Colorado and Parts of Texas. There was a Vette convention in town, and these people were buying 20 - 30 cases or more to take back to New York City. It was pretty funny.

I only bought 7 case to take back to Indiana in my 67 Corvette coupe, thats all I could put in the back. Thats the good thing about are SSR's we can haul more beer.

Carl

[Nancy24]

I was a store manager at a junior retail store and had a straight A student that couldn't make change. I insisted that the girls count change back the old fashioned way and she just couldn't get it. She got calculus, but couldn't get change!

[flynSS/R]

Originally Posted by Focks

I worked at Skllern's Liquor Store when I was 18. Do you remember getting a case of Coors for $5.88. And that was when you could only get it in Colorado and Parts of Texas. There was a Vette convention in town, and these people were buying 20 - 30 cases or more to take back to New York City. It was pretty funny.

In the 70's I worked for a Cessna Aircraft dealer here in Illinois. We had an open house for the new planes that year. We flew to Wichita to pick up some new planes for the open house. One of the workers at the delivery center also owned a liquor store in town. We had two twin engine planes that we where taking delivery of. So the boss and I loaded the two planes up with 150 cases of Coors beer and headed home.
When we had the open house, you should have seen the faces of our customers when we only served Coors Beer when at that time the beer of choice was Pabst Blue Ribbon.

[XSELER8]

I was in line in a hardware store. The lady in front of me tells the salesperson ..I need a mousetrap. And hurry up I want to catch a bus. Salesperson reply...sorry we don't have them that size.........