From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 19:43:12 -0800 (PST), Beaver Fever    
   wrote:   
   >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.   
   >   
   >That's not much more than you will pay here for 2 burritos unless you are   
   eating at Del Taco.   
      
   I can get an undistinguished burrito at any of several taquerias in town for $5   
   to $8, depending on filling.   
      
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