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   On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:07:17 -0800, Snidely  wrote:   
   >On Wednesday, Roger House yelped out that:   
   >   
   >> 2.)  In relation to number 1, as an example, if your order total comes to   
   >> something like, say, $18.02, when you give me your payment money, you do not   
   >> *NEED* to give me $20.05, twenty even covers it just fine.   
   >   
   >Some of us prefer to get 3 pennies back, rather than 98.  Most cashiers   
   >I've tried this with understand just fine.   
      
   Occasionally they don't.  I was in CostCo recently, and my total was X dollars   
   and 36 cents.  I gave the cashier the bills to cover it and a penny.  That   
   seemed to confuse them, and subsequently they screwed up entering the "cash   
   tendered" to the point where another employee had to come over and reset the   
   register.  I would think that one doesn't have to work too many shifts as a   
   cashier before becoming well-acquainted with this practice.   
      
   Some cashiers rely so completely on the register that they can't even do basic   
   arithmetic.  At a burrito shop, my total came to $22.80 and I gave the young   
   woman $25.  She stepped away from register for a moment to speak with the cook,   
   and in the process lost the read-out of the change due.  She came back and   
   fished out a pen and paper and started figuring.  I realized she was   
   calculating   
   my change -- she couldn't do that basic sum in her head.  I had to chide her   
   for   
   that.  She weakly made some excuse about "being out of school."   
      
   --   
   The Romans could never have invented algebra, because they always thought   
   that X = 10.   
      
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