ben on Humzoo

Monday, June 30th, 2008
I love high school summer workers

I walk into the dry cleaners.

They bring me my two jackets.
The girl says $11.50.
I say "I think I get a discount at work"
Girl asks coworker...."he says he gets a discount"
Second girl walks over....how much is your discount suppose to be?
I go. I'm not really sure...I think 10 percent.
She takes credit card....walks to register...ok....$1.50
I say...no...I think 10 percent...not 10 dollars...she goes...well I could make it free.

I am baffled not sure what that meant or what her logic was....and she charges my credit card for $1.50.

11 Comments

1) Higher learning at work!

Emmy Ann Monday, June 30, 2008

2) Nice discount! Gotta love the math challenged. Yesterday at the wine store, my total was $16.10. I gave the guy $26.10, so all he had to do was give me a 10 back. The guy stared at the money I handed over for about 10 seconds, then counted it carefully 2 or 3 times before saying "I said it was $16.10". uhhhh.........

sandy Monday, June 30, 2008

3) Amazing...all he had to do was put the amount you gave into the register and, unless it is one of those ones form the 19th century, it would have told him how much change to give back.

LimeyGeorge Monday, June 30, 2008

4) George, you are definitely not from here if you think young cashiers ever realize that and use it! We had an adult once at the place I used to work retail "amazed" that we could figure out 10% of 350.00 as fast as we did (for the math challenged, that is $35.00). We tried to explain to her that you just drop a 0 and get the amount and she looked even more impressed. I think I could have disappeared into thin air and it would have seemed less magical to her.

LGrant Monday, June 30, 2008

5) Yeah, I'm definitely not from around these part. I'm a real Limey you know.

LimeyGeorge Monday, June 30, 2008

6) I wonder if she thought you meant that you get it for 10% OF the price instead of 10% OFF the price. That would be $1.15, not $1.50, but I can see how someone might make that mistake.

Does that make it all right? No.

Does that mean, as a math teacher, I'm not shaking with fury? No.

Scott Monday, June 30, 2008

7) I am going to send you my dry cleaning. What a deal! Perhaps she was overcome by your charm. LOL

Leslie Monday, June 30, 2008

8) Even I could figure that one out, and I'm about as bad at numbers as they come.

Sarah S. Monday, June 30, 2008

9) That's because we're English majors, Mrs. Shoo...no need for math there. Besides, I married a software engineer - he does the math.

Angi Monday, June 30, 2008

10) I was a math major but I'm still not too good at mental arithmetic because I'm too used to using a calculator to speed up the simple stuff leaving the brain to sort out the more crazy stuff.

LimeyGeorge Monday, June 30, 2008

11) Mr. Shoo is the math person. It's funny how totally different our brains work, but we've noticed we usually have many of the exact same thoughts...scary as it is.

Sarah S. Tuesday, July 1, 2008