Honestly, I hated that. You work a till and you like to get a flow going. Mental math, last minute currency changes mess with that. Retail work sucks, especially if it's busy. A mom and pop it's probably no big deal, but a big chain has procedures and there's pressure to move things along.Molly wrote:Hubby and I were just having this discussion last night. God forbid you give them pennies after the register has already told them what your change should be!jim wrote:She was probably just a stupid person. She kind of sounds like it.stlouie_lipp wrote:At the risk of being accused of math shaming or something, I love it when a cashier, usually younger cashier, hits the wrong button on the register. The look of shear panic really cracks me up.
I had a total of $7.25, gave her $20.25, something went wrong with the register and she looked like a deer in headlights. I told her the change is $13 and she says, "thanks, I've always been bad at math". Bad at math? This is basic subtraction, not solving for "x".
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It annoys me when athletes play with their mouth guards. Like Steph Curry. He's a great player but all I see is him gnawing on his mouth guard. Victor Martinez can't keep his in place either. Just one of my weird quirks, I guess.
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I may be off at every point here. But I kind of think bluetooth headsets were dubbed 'douchey' because they came in too early in the smart phone era and were perceived as people showing off how great they were. I also think that if they came along now, they might have a totally different life.
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It annoys me that athletes wear mouth guards. Man up pussies.Radbird wrote:It annoys me when athletes play with their mouth guards. Like Steph Curry. He's a great player but all I see is him gnawing on his mouth guard. Victor Martinez can't keep his in place either. Just one of my weird quirks, I guess.
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Mostly they're douchey because the users tend to be narcissists whose conversations take precedence over everyone else in the vicinity.MrSaigon wrote:I may be off at every point here. But I kind of think bluetooth headsets were dubbed 'douchey' because they came in too early in the smart phone era and were perceived as people showing off how great they were. I also think that if they came along now, they might have a totally different life.
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But no one's considered douchey for using their handset or having their nose buried in their phone regardless the situation nowadays. Or at least it's not a nearly universal narrative like it was for the bluetooth pieces.lukethedrifter wrote:Mostly they're douchey because the users tend to be narcissists whose conversations take precedence over everyone else in the vicinity.MrSaigon wrote:I may be off at every point here. But I kind of think bluetooth headsets were dubbed 'douchey' because they came in too early in the smart phone era and were perceived as people showing off how great they were. I also think that if they came along now, they might have a totally different life.
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It's a matter of douchey vs antisocial.
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If you're having a phone conversation in public with your phone on speaker, you deserve the be flown into the sun.
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I don't get how some things go viral. I finally watched the chewbacca mask mom after reading she made over 400k from the video. She just puts on a mask and starts laughing, why does this have 300 million views? I don't get it.
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I saw this, yesterday. So glad that others saw it too. My kid was right there with me, and missed it.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illi ... 2d67e.html



