A friend and I had the same experience at a restaurant in Emigration Canyon. The waitress/cashier just could not make change and didn't have a calculator. It was a hideous, long, embarrassing wait while she struggled. Eventually she just had to let us take the proper change. Luckily for her, we were honest. ------------------------------ On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 8:50 AM MST Chuck Hards wrote:

It's not just people in service industry jobs and simple math. I know many educated folks who can't spell common words. One, a teacher with an English degree is particularly bad at spelling and grammar. I know teachers who can't deal with the simplest algebraic expressions. There are excellent teachers out there, to be sure, but many who make me wonder about how rigorous their degree program was.

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Bruce Hugo <bruce.hugo@yahoo.com> wrote:

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Back on Nov 22nd, I purchased dinner and it came to $6.03. I gave the cashier $10.05 and she says "oh shit!" and walks off, rummages around, rummages around and finally finds a calculator. She entered $10.00 in the register before I handed her the change so the register didn't tell her what change to give me. I started to say something but decided to let it ride... it took her 3 tries on the calculator to come up with the correct change to give me. Sad.

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