at a vestavia track meet Tue night, i ordered an $8 hamburger combo, a $3 bag of peanuts and a $3 diet coke of which i paid for with a 20. lil HS girl proceeds to give me my order, a smile and then $4 change.

after kindly explaining to her she shorted me $2, she appears with her mother, a track booster and 3 iphone calculators. we ultimately had to agree to disagree. i ended up getting my additional $2 and 3 very disgusted looks from what i'm sure were 3 very nice young women most of the time.

it's a sad state we live in when simple logic, common sense and basic math skills are almost absent from an entire generation.

rant over

even with three calculators they couldn't get it right??

they need those calculators with the pics on em so they don't have to hurt their widdle brains actually thinking.

Damn. Who raised this no-good-for-nothing, hopeless generation

and the calculators could have very well been an assumption on my part...they may have been facebook messaging someone for help

They used the same math as the female engineering department at FIU used in calculating the structural loading on the pedestrian bridge. You know, the female professors who claim traditional math is racist and male oriented.

Ran out of fingers to count on.

In the immortal words of Jed Clampett, "Pity.Full. Jes' Pity.Full.!!"

Probably each other

Or they could have been running it by aldeer no probably using today's new math NASA can't even figure it out

"WTF, this guy is trying to screw us out of $2..."
"Just give it to him. Look at his shoes, he's wearing boots..."
"OMG, right??? I need a latte."

Maybe it was gratuity? COMMON SENSE AIN'T COMMON NO MO! You should have had your calculator out to show them!

Meant to say aldeer see whew today's intranet AS confusing AS today's math

The good ole information age!!! "We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom"

I have a sneaky suspicion that there are a whole lotta folks like that.
And even worse. I really don't know how some people function day to day.

doesnt suprise me at all if u saw the different ways they are trying to teach math maybe thats the plan raise dumb kids in school so they have to depend on government to survive

Sort of like the girl at the Freeport Hardees. I bought a $4.25 breakfast, paid for it with a $5 bill and a quarter. She had to go get the manager..............

I finally quit doing that, for the very same reason. I think a lot of the registers have symbols or pics of bills in different denominations. Ring up the order, guy gives you a $5, hit the five pic, machine figures the change. She didn't have an easy way to enter your $5.25. What I do now--take the 75 cent change, add my quarter to it, and ask to trade it for a $1 bill. Even that is too much for some of them, or the company policy wont let them handle any transactions except payment. When they hire minimally educated kids at minimum wage, they need a policy to protect them from scammers.

Are you sure she wasn't contending that you gave her an $18 bill instead of a 20?

Had the same thing happen at McDonald's in Clanton. Moron had the bills in one hand and coins in the other hand. Looked at both hands a few times and then looked at me as if to say "I don't understand" frikin dipschitt.

It takes all kinds.....
My daughter gave a woman change the other night(50 cents)
The customer came back up to the concession stand a few minutes later and demanded her 50 cents. She was informed it had been given to her. Customer stated her hands were full and she left it outside the window but still expected it to be given back to her.