Went to the Dollae Tree for a bunch of crap I really didn’t need. Was buying Christmas goodies for neighbors kids. At register was the same worn sign they hand printed in July “DUE TO COIN SHORTAGE PLEASE USE EXACT CHANGE BUT WE PREFER CARDS NOT CHECKS”. My total was $18.90. I gave the worker, snowflake, not sure what gender due to blue/pink hair and nose rings and Sparkly mask $18.90. He/she/it said “ We can’t take cash unless it is correct amount!” This is our future!!!!!
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This is nothing new. I think the real reason for these signs is because their cashiers have no idea how to make change because they apparently haven't taught the most basic math for 40 years or more.
You can really stump some cashiers by handing them a dollar, a quarter and a nickel for a $1.27 bill. Or worse, a dollar, a quarter, dime and a penny for a $1.36 bill.
This is true too. If my total is 5.xx and I have a 10 I'll give them 11 so I get a 5 and change back. 95/100 times the cashier has a deer in headlights look completely overwhelmed with getting $11 and being incapable of pressing 1-1 on the register to find that I was trying to make their job easier and my wallet thinner.
“Uh, anon, here’s your $1 back, you gave me too much.”
“No, punch it in, you’ll see.”
Everyone needs to teach their kids, even the 20-somethings, and grandkids how to make change. The schools aren't doing it nor are they teaching basic math. Actually, I'll repeat my usual refrain - get your kids out of the public schools. If you can't homeschool, see if your church will help with the costs of a church-sponsored school. Or gang up with other parents and start your own school.
Yeah, it's hard but not nearly as hard as life is going to be for your kids with a lousy education and probably brainwashed into thinking Communism is a great idea.
They have just justify their existence not by doing a good job of teaching kids but in coming up with one hairbrained educational disaster of a theory after another and then experimenting with it on the children. They've actually been doing this for a very long time. When I was in public school in the 50s and 60s, they imposed the idiocy of "new math" and phonics on us. Luckily for us, they were still teaching basic reading, history, and so on.
They also expected us to buck up and take it when we got a poor grade instead of protecting us from our own laziness or stupidity. And we were actually "tracked" by our intelligence and skill levels instead of expecting the smart kids to be bored out of their skulls while everything was taught at a level for the least intelligent kids' comfort.
After us, came the deluge of educational jackassery.
I had one class in high school that wasn't tracked so was taught lowest level. I was bored out of my skull. However, they didn't expect drugs to discipline kids, they expected teachers to back then. So we didn't do rowdy.