Comments on: Errant, Adulating Adults Enable Stupid Youth

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:15:49 +0000

Actually, today’s youthful dimwits are the TSA employees of the future! Here is another article on how they protect America from killer grannies:

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/mother-41324-search-adult.html

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:35:47 +0000

Dimwit valley girls are one thing – try dimwits in the Pentagon that spend tens of billions of dollars!!!

By: JP

JP — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:35:10 +0000

@William, yes, but how did it make you feel?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:52:59 +0000

LOL Classic analysis

By: William

William — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:43:02 +0000

Recently, while standing in a service counter line at a local grocery store, a man around my age (mid fifties)asked the clerk if he could get a bottle count on his returns, since the “recycle” machines were typically inoperable. The service clerk called a “courtesy clerk,” (bag girl) to help with the situation. The CC asked how many bottles the gentleman had, and he replied that he had twenty-seven bottles in his cart. The young lady then said nervously, as though she were on an emergency mission, “I’ll have to get a calculator to see how much we owe you. The gentleman looked at me in disbelief, and we both said simultaneously, that the amount was $1.35. With her snotty valley girl accent the girl who was about nineteen or twenty said, “how do you guys ‘like’ know that?” I replied with a tinge of sarcasm, “we learned the old math.”

Even with knowing the return rate was five cents, she was lost without her calculator.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:12:56 +0000

Clarification, my wife reminded me that the new silver dollars look like quarters, not half dollars. You could be walking around with dollars as loose change.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:01:54 +0000

James, are you kidding? Half dollars are so rare they are usually worth seventy-five cents to a dollar to a coin collector. I’m getting a better kick out of the cashiers that give me one of the new silver dollars that look like fifty cent pieces in change. I’m not getting rich counting change, but, one of these days, my wife and I will get to go to supper and even tip like Ingemar. On topic, a couple of years ago, the ARBYS had a cash register blow out. The manager had a pocket calculator and it was fun watching him teach the clerks how to figure and keep a running count on a tablet.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:19:29 +0000

Do you want a chuckle? Get a hand full of 50cent pieces and try to buy something at a drug store or a fast food place. Those vacant, staring twits who pass for American students nearly hyperventilate trying to figure what a half dollar is.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:36:39 +0000

Ingemar – Many people (myself for one) often leave the amount and tip and if you left an amount roughly equal to amount and tip, it is reasonable to ask if you want the change back. If you left a $ 50 on a $ 13 check, it would be a stupid question but if you left $ 45 on a $38.55 check, it might be quite sensible to ask if you needed change back.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:21:23 +0000

One is often ammused at what the “yoof” are incapable of. Luckily I woke up in time to correct my course. I can do all high school algebra and about half of geometry in my head. granted, I am a member of Mensa, so I don’t expect everyone to be able to do it, but at least one should try. I mean, I was totally clueless about cars until I decided one day that I need to change this. I’ve subsequently learned how to do things like installing bigger brakes, performing minor services and debugging simpler electircal faults.

It’s really not that hard once you get your hands dirty.