From: Beaver_Fever@live.com   
      
   On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 1:23:59 PM UTC-8, Questor wrote:   
   > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 03:36:32 -0000 (UTC), darkon  wrote:   
   > >use...@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:   
   > >>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."   
   > >   
   > >Yeah, they get confused when you give them odd-seeming amounts so that   
   > >the change will be more convenient, such as wanting three quarters back   
   > >instead of 69 cents. In their defense, working fast food can be mind-   
   > >numbing. You're tired, your feet hurt, everything smells like grease,   
   > >then some customer hands you $7.06 for a $6.31 purchase and asks why   
   > >you don't do it in your head.   
   > I agree that working in a fast food place can be mind-numbing, but this was   
   an   
   > upscale "gourmet" burrito shop that's never busy like a fast-food restaurant.   
   > That $22.80 is for just two burritos.   
   >   
   > --   
   > With a phrase book in her silk-soft hand, she spoke in riddles while the   
   vodka   
   > listened   
      
   That's not much more than you will pay here for 2 burritos unless you are   
   eating at Del Taco.   
      
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