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Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65
We're having a discussion over at GMI right now...
A member and his wife went out to dinner and the final bill was $11.98. The wife handed the cashier a $20 bill and two $1 bills.
The cashier was super confused and said, "You gave me a $20."
The wife responded, "Right, and you give me $10 and 2 cents in change."
The OP is attributing this to the younger generation's overdependence on technology and being unable to do the math.
I disagree. If the bill was under $20, and you handed me a $20 bill and two extra bills, I'd be confused too. I'd probably just hand you back the extra cash and make change from the $20.
OP refuses to confirm, but I'm guessing his wife wanted a single $10 bill rather than have a $5 bill and 5 $1 bills. The thing is, it's not the cashier's job to read minds if the wife hadn't explicitly stated her intentions. I don't think the cashier was as dumb as he thinks, in fact from her response, it sounds like she thought the wife was the idiot in this situation for paying with more than was required.
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First: I'd like to know where two can eat out for under $12
Second: I do this with toll booth operators all the time.
Change from $20 is $5 + 3- $1 + .02 (four pieces of paper)
Change from $22 is $10 + .02 (one piece of paper)
That's all there is to it, fewer pieces of paper.
They need the small bills and I prefer not to sit on a wallet full of $1 bills.
If you eat out almost constantly you end up with a wallet that can't even fold anymore.
In all my years I've never met a toll operator that didn't do the math in less than 3 seconds in their head and give me the correct change. Fast food cashiers are another story. It's just inexperience.
The art of counting change is a victim of modern technology, the same as Engineers using PC's to draft, Millwrights using modern electric tools to build furniture, and Machine shops using 3D milling machines to create parts. The results are finer, but at the expense of knowledge.
Watch any modern company try to live without electricity for one week..... I can't think of any that could.