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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

2 + 2 = ?

So I do not profess to be some kind of mathematical genius. I do admit to using a calculator often. But there are still the basics.

Tonight I stopped off at the local Canadian Tire. I had to pick up a few bits and pieces. $3.36 worth. As I sifted through my pocket, the young lady at the till figured I had exact change, and hit the button. But I tricked her, I didn't have the change. So in an effort to keep those around me on my toes, I gave the cashier $4.00.

Now some people are quick with numbers, and would look at it, then hand over the $0.64 in change. I may opt to cheat, and count out 4 pennies, a dime, and two quarters. But this young lady had me beat. She voided the transaction, and re-entered the whole thing in, this time entering in the $4.00 I gave her, so the computer could give her the change. No, this isn't one of the tills that spits out the change automatically. The cashiers still need to do that manually.

What a let down.

2 Comments:

At Wed Mar 29, 07:57:00 a.m. MST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Further proving my theory that "Calculators are ruining the world."

 
At Wed Mar 29, 10:26:00 a.m. MST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Someday in the not so distant future we will look back fondly at the quaintness of having a live person at a checkout...thoughts from the land that invented the ATM

 

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