As I was standing in the checkout line at a local convenience store...

[bunyip]

My friend had a cashier call her to the register for assistance.

A customer's change was $11 and there were no tens in her drawer.

A 7 and a 4 would do it

 

[crashz]

My wife's elderly aunt stayed with us for the month of January as she lives in Greece and was here on vacation. I never witnessed her washing her hands, but constantly saw her picking her nose. And my wife pleaded with her to shower at least a couple of times.

My wife spent the entire month trying to keep her aunt from "helping" with the cooking...

 

[Fuddy1952]

A lot has to do with who's doing the licking

 

[Oaktree]

Wait until the total comes to $1.98, and someone hands her a $5.00 bill and 8 cents...

I guess I'm a bit unimpressed with the abilities of some of the clerks today, having spent several years in the grocery business back in the late 50's and early 60's. We had the old manual National cash registers; you had to calculate the tax mentally, memorize all of the specials, and count out the change.

Plenty of instances of deer-in-the-headlights looks back before electronic cash registers too when a customer would do the $5 bill & 8¢ thing too. We don't have sales tax here so I can't comment on that, though I'd imagine most stores had a chart they could reference...cashiers weren't the best and brightest 50 years ago either. Easy to view the past thru rose colored glasses.

 

[ruffdog]

It's called the puking clerk diet program......it would work for me!:yuck:

 

[Steppenwolfe]

The concern was licking fingers and then transferring saliva to the subsequent cakes.

No... my concern is your over the top political signature line. The fact you don't worry about an offense or transgression sure say's a lot about your classless attitude. If the system moderators are cool with this type of political statements in a signature line, I can't wait to compose mine.

 

[the old grind]

Please let it rest. We can't ask that opposing views be suppressed, no matter how disagreeable.

(btw, that I haven't slept well in over two two years is a personal problem, not yours or someone else here's)

We sometimes show our own class by saying less. That said, I have none whatsoever unfortunately.

Therefore I dare say that not liking our current President does not make one a socialist. Made a few of us EX-Republicans, but so what.

Oh, and "in before the lock!"
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1) God gave us rainbows 2) He told me that "Rainbow Friendly" is good 3) No ERA yet says we have more issues that that Jim Crow isn't really dead yet!! 4) I don't care if you're a "White supremacist" by anyone's definition. 5) You have a right to express your views, too.

 

[Jstpssng]

Wait until the total comes to $1.98, and someone hands her a $5.00 bill and 8 cents...

I guess I'm a bit unimpressed with the abilities of some of the clerks today, having spent several years in the grocery business back in the late 50's and early 60's. We had the old manual National cash registers; you had to calculate the tax mentally, memorize all of the specials, and count out the change.

How many people here actually count their change to make sure that they get the right amount? I confess that I"ve gotten out of the habit, especially in the last few years as I've also gotten into the bad habit of paying for more things with credit cards. Last summer I was buying an item in the local grocery store and it rang up 60 cents too high. The clerk insisted that it was the bottle deposit, even though that was listed directly below the price. The other clerk went off doing other things so as I tried to get it straightened out she kept jumping to the other register for other customers. After about 15 minutes I realized I wasn't going to get my sixty cents back and gave up. (This is one of those small mom and pop grocery stores which people lament the loss of, the owners had gone home for the weekend and they didn't have a manager.)

A couple of weeks later I had made a purchase from the same clerk, and realized 2 miles down the road that she had given me back $10 too much. It was tough to turn around and go back, and it completely went against my upbringing to cut into the front of the line to give her the money back. I was tempted to give her $9.40, but it wasn't worth the hassle. I can easily say that I've returned thousands of dollars above what people were supposed to give me; one time it was over $700, and at least twice it was $100 or more.
Yet when they give me back too little, correcting it is like pulling teeth.

 

[ovrszd]

Why do you guys do this.

If you or someone you know contracts this virus what politician are you going to call?

 

[Jstpssng]

Why do you guys do this.

If you or someone you know contracts this virus what politician are you going to call?

I can't answer that question because I don't know nor do I care about the political leanings of the doctor who I hope will treat me... and that's who I am going to call.