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The lost art of ? #7332648
08/17/21 07:45 PM
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Counting Change!!!!!!!We are losing so many simple everyday things in this world. I noticed today how hard it was for a young man at McDonalds to figure out change. My meal was $8.19. I gave him $20.19. and it took him two minutes to give me back $12.00 and then he just handed it back to me. Hardly anyone counts your change back to you anymore!

Scott


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Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332652
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Lack of paying in cash... Common core math, always takes longer. Lol.

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332659
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Around here they still count it not the correct way but they count what they’re giving you.

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332662
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i always forget about the change thing to make your change a dollar or 5. then again i dont carry coins very long they go straight to the coin jar

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332668
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You really want to mess with them, pay with silver Susan B's! ROTFLMAO!


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Re: The lost art of ? [Re: BigBob] #7332679
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Originally Posted by BigBob
You really want to mess with them, pay with silver Susan B's! ROTFLMAO!

Same for the Sacagawea dollars.

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332683
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Used to be a scammer chick at the corner store that always gave you charge for a ten when you gave her a 20.


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Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332684
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Doing sums in your head.

Quoted a guy 425 to do one job and toss in the other one for 250. He whips out his phone to do the math. And this was a grown man!


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Re: The lost art of ? [Re: warrior] #7332686
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Originally Posted by warrior
Doing sums in your head.

Quoted a guy 425 to do one job and toss in the other one for 250. He whips out his phone to do the math. And this was a grown man!

Must not of done very well in the speed math quizzes in elementary school. Do they even do those anymore? We did them in the mid 90s

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332687
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Several years ago I drove through a McDonald's for an Egg Mcmuffin and the guy working the window, after a pregnant pause, said "You want to pay, with money?" I should probably add that by the time he said this he already had my money in his hand. He is probably the manager by now.

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: warrior] #7332690
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Originally Posted by warrior
Doing sums in your head.

Quoted a guy 425 to do one job and toss in the other one for 250. He whips out his phone to do the math. And this was a grown man!


He probably went to a SEC school.


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Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332696
08/17/21 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ScottPhillips
Counting Change!!!!!!!We are losing so many simple everyday things in this world. I noticed today how hard it was for a young man at McDonalds to figure out change. My meal was $8.19. I gave him $20.19. and it took him two minutes to give me back $12.00 and then he just handed it back to me. Hardly anyone counts your change back to you anymore!

Scott

lol..1 or 2 second answer

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332701
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I noticed it alot in philippines scott in grocery store....younger generationl We werent allowed calculators. Cashier was stumbling figuring my change and I said 18 cents change. She said wow sir you"re very good in math. I said everybody my age does this.

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Kid in McDonalds must have been in management training, All he had to do was input the amount you gave and the machine would tell him the change...

This is nothing new, the fast food places went to smart cash registers in the late 70's, cause kids couldn't make change then either.

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332960
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Around here they ask if you want your change to go into a Tip Jar?
Consider the young kids that have not had basic addition STRESSED due to this virus?
Teachers cannot really check progress when kids are at home on the computer learning...going to be interesting....

Re: The lost art of ? [Re: ScottPhillips] #7332968
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Meanwhile, those younger people are bemoaning that the older generation doesn’t know of or know how to use Venmo/PayPal/etc. Any guesses if cash or digital payment methods will last into the future?


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As a single parent I'd send one or both of my daughter's to the local grocery store for whatever milk , ice cream or bread with a $ 20.00 or a $ 50.00 bill once and I'd instruct them to get a receipt .
When they returned home I'd make them count back my change which I'd try to turn it into a fun game I'd be surprised if many of their classmates know how to count change .


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Originally Posted by ScottPhillips
Counting Change!!!!!!!We are losing so many simple everyday things in this world. I noticed today how hard it was for a young man at McDonalds to figure out change. My meal was $8.19. I gave him $20.19. and it took him two minutes to give me back $12.00 and then he just handed it back to me. Hardly anyone counts your change back to you anymore!

Scott



I was at a farmers market two weeks ago they deal in cash all morning every week

I forget what my total was but he gave me back 3-4 dollars more than he should have , I did the math for him and handed him back the extra , he thanked me for being so honest.

my great aunt taught us to count back change at great grandpas store that she ran till she retired

speaking of things no-one seems to use or understand anymore
my don was telling his class back in the spring about this fishing trip we were taking

when he said plan was get out the gazetteer and pick a spot that looked good and go fishing where ever we pleased. not one of them knew what a gazetteer was including he teacher who is about 35 he had to explain a gazetteer to his class and teacher.

when the kids were still in booster seats we would pass the gazetteer to the back seat and point to where we where and where we were going and let them give the directions and later a compass and tell them what road we were on and let them figure where we were from other road sings.


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Re: The lost art of ? [Re: west river rogue] #7333067
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Originally Posted by west river rogue
I noticed it alot in philippines scott in grocery store....younger generationl We werent allowed calculators. Cashier was stumbling figuring my change and I said 18 cents change. She said wow sir you"re very good in math. I said everybody my age does this.

When I was younger , calculators were just starting to get popular. My mother was a bookkeeper. She refused to let my brother and I to use calculators , we had to do the math on paper or in our heads. I hated it at the time. Very glad now however , can do math in a jiffy in my head.

Mom always knows best.


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