I really enjoyed the story about the guy trying to buy something at a fast food joint with a $2 bill. Think I'll go to the bank and get me a few and go have some fun.
Pretty common these days. If your bill is $1.27 and you pay with 2 $1 bills and 2 pennies, your chances of getting 3 quarters back is almost zero unless the cash register does the math for our future leaders. I learned how to make change in the third grade, but by then, we already knew how to count.
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Jim Shoe wrote: I really enjoyed the story about the guy trying to buy something at a fast food joint with a $2 bill. Think I'll go to the bank and get me a few and go have some fun.
Pretty common these days. If your bill is $1.27 and you pay with 2 $1 bills and 2 pennies, your chances of getting 3 quarters back is almost zero unless the cash register does the math for our future leaders. I learned how to make change in the third grade, but by then, we already knew how to count.
Hate to say it but, I would have to have a calculator to figure it out. I flunked math and I have never had to deal with making change. There was a scam in my area a little while ago where two guys would go into a store and get the check out person so confused she would end up giving them more money back then what they cam in with.
Math was a whiz for me in school and never gave counting out correct change a second thought. I doubt anyone did in the 50s and 60s. Still, the company I worked for my senior year sent a letter saying we'd have a visitor who would con us at the cash register. Sure enough, this guy gave me some bill, after fifty years the details are long gone, I gave him change, he asked to break a bill if I recall and, sho 'nuf, after a minute or so he said he had bilked me out of something, five or ten bucks I would guess. Then he called the manager over and reenacted the whole thing for us. It was amazing.
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