They Say I'm 'Exceptional'.

[2LaneCruzer]

fixed it for you.
By the way, I was taught how to do that by my dad, about 58 years ago.

Back in the 50's, we checked groceries on the old National Cash Registers. You figured the tax in your head, memorized the specials, and counted the change backwards. If the total was $4.57, and they gave you a fiver plus 2cents, it was mentally subtracted and you counted thusly: $4.55...(two dimes) "65, 75" (a quarter) and "5".

I still remember my first week checking; my right hand was so sore, and I couldn't figure out why...until it dawned on me, that to get the sub total and the total, you had to hit the cash register "total" bar with the side of your hand. You really needed to be able to keep track of the money in your head; we had what they called (as I recall...) short change artists, the would come in, ask for change, do some fancy stuff and you would come up short.

 

[arrow]

Debt lovers score........a zero should be the goal. Only product in the world you beg them to let you buy it. And as the thread shows brag about how good you look in their eyes. The most marketed and studied industry in the world.....we are merely their sheeple

Exactly. What better way to afford "credence" than to make up your own scale.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I must say tht I find that I am increasingly challenged to add up a few cheques for deposit. It's all good unless the column totals go over 9! Too often, the teller has to make a "slight" correction.

Never mind. this week the Teller at RBC got her zeros mixed up insisting I had only a fraction of my CC bonus points.

 

[atsah]

Lets see, in HS i took required English, so i know the difference in board and bored. Math (algebra, geometry, trig, calculus intro). Science (biology, chemistry, physics), French (only foreigners language offered), typing, PE. and art.

We did have the choice to go to a vocational (trade) school instead, but that would have been boring.

I would have liked to have taken wood shop, but didnt have the time. Besides, we had tools at home and i learned woodworking on my own, plus as 4H projects. I learned small engine repair in 4H. I used to rebuild mower engines a lot. Also electrical stuff, i was building electronic items all the time, including soldering together my own power supplies, etc. I also learned construction while a teenager (framing, roofing, electrical, plumbing). I was driving 10 ton dump trucks by the time i was a freshman in college. And front end loaders, dozers. Of course i was driving a tractor much earlier
I still have many of the items i built in HS, like the lamp I'm using now.

I say all this to say it all helped me in everyday life, and none would i call nonsense.

Forgot to mention, i grew up dirt poor. I worked summers to help pay my way in college. And i never drank, but i did have the desire to learn.

Sounds great. I'm glad you picked up the bored spelling, very important point you make. Maybe not everyone did what you and I did back in the dirt poor days, ya think.. You think people do things the way we did them, Nope.. Sounds like you like to toot you're own horn, pretty common around here..

 

[Bird]

Very few people understand that making change is easiest by "adding" rather than "subtracting".

But lots of us old folks know that.:laughing: I started working in my Dad's service station that he bought when I was 16. We later added an auto parts store, and we became the bus station for both Greyhound and Continental Trailways. No computers or calculators, and relatively few credit cards in those days. Then about 3 years later, when my younger brothers were old enough to help out there, I went to work for the Dallas Post Office when I was 19. A year or so later, I began working as a window clerk, taking in packages and mail, selling stamps, envelopes, postcards, etc. Still no computers or calculators. As far as I know, I only made ONE mistake. When stamp prices went up from 4 cents to 5 cents, I had a customer ask for half a sheet of stamps (50 stamps on half a sheet) and I charged him $2, as I'd been accustomed to doing. After he left, it dawned on me that, with the price increase, I should have gotten $2.50, so I lost 50 cents.:laughing:

 

[dnw64]

Never mind. this week the Teller at RBC got her zeros mixed up insisting I had only a fraction of my CC bonus points.

I once had a teller mix up her decimal points. A deposit for $1,741.xx was entered as $174,1xx.00. That would have been caught by end of day...

But yesterday I had customer duplicate a payment of $47,000 and change. When I told them they had already paid it they said:

Thank you very much for letting us know, and my apologies for the further confusion. That invoice paid twice was from the month I was out of the office, and I must have missed that had been submitted. We had also switched AP systems during that time, so I imagine that is how it slipped through our usual safeguard which catches duplicate invoices.

My take on that was that if I hadn't said anything they wouldn't have ever noticed.

 

[ovrszd]

fixed it for you.
By the way, I was taught how to do that by my dad, about 58 years ago.

Thank you James.