TOTALLY GEEKED!

I really hate to tell tales on one of my cousins but.. The other night we were suppose to meet up at Chef Louis, he watched us drive by as he waited for us at Happy Chef...

-- Edited by just Czech on Monday 16th of February 2015 10:28:10 AM

Think I have told this before.

while getting ready for a big snow storm, I was at the store picking up a few things. The shelves were about bare. I am picking up some veggies in the canned goods aisle and this couple was completely stupefied because the soup was almost all sold out.

I hear them talking for a minute while trying to find the item I was looking for.

Then say to them, "you know, if you can warm that can of soup, you can warm that can of green beans".

They looked at each other like I had just hit them on the head with a 2x4 and then started grabbing canned veggies.

I'll tell on my mom! My dad bought a new truck last night. He was following us home. As we approach our exit, a truck goes speeding past us. My goes, quick, call your dad, ask him if I'm supposed to follow him! I'm all confused, yell for her not to miss the exit. She says, but your dad just passed us. I said no, he's still right behind us. She said but a white truck just passed us. Yes mom, a white FORD just passed us, dad is right behind us in his white CHEVY

just Czech wrote:

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Divine Geek wrote:

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I'll tell on my mom! My dad bought a new truck last night. He was following us home. As we approach our exit, a truck goes speeding past us. My goes, quick, call your dad, ask him if I'm supposed to follow him! I'm all confused, yell for her not to miss the exit. She says, but your dad just passed us. I said no, he's still right behind us. She said but a white truck just passed us. Yes mom, a white FORD just passed us, dad is right behind us in his white CHEVY

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This resembles me... I couldn't tell a ford from a chevy to save my life.  

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They all look pretty much the same to me...

flan 

Domestic Engineer wrote:

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With the approaching winter storm being forecasted to hit here tomorrow, I decided to do my grocery shopping today rather than my usual Monday run.

First stop, the deli counter to pick up some luncheon meat.  As I wait my turn, the gentleman in front of me ask for 4 ounces of cheese. I watch as the the  ignoramous dude behind the counter goes over and speaks to his even more ignoramus  boss.  Ignoramus dude then returns to the nice gentleman and says, "I asked my boss and I can't sell you 4 ounces of cheese, we only sell cheese by the pound".  The nice gentleman then says, "ok then, I'll just take a quarter of a pound". Ignoramous goes, "I can do that".      I totally lost it!  

-- Edited by Domestic Engineer on Sunday 15th of February 2015 04:36:01 PM

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 Wow, that's bad.

Divine Geek wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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Divine Geek wrote:

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I'll tell on my mom! My dad bought a new truck last night. He was following us home. As we approach our exit, a truck goes speeding past us. My goes, quick, call your dad, ask him if I'm supposed to follow him! I'm all confused, yell for her not to miss the exit. She says, but your dad just passed us. I said no, he's still right behind us. She said but a white truck just passed us. Yes mom, a white FORD just passed us, dad is right behind us in his white CHEVY

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This resembles me... I couldn't tell a ford from a chevy to save my life.  

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They all look pretty much the same to me...

flan 

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 Well, there is the big emblem on the tailgate.....

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Like I'm suppose to look at a tailgate....

Sadly, tailgates all look the same to me. 

Sadly, DE's example has to do with the dumbing down of America. The scales read in pounds, quarter pounds, half pounds, and so on. There is no reason for stupid people to actually KNOW that four ounces is a quarter of a pound. This is the same reason some kids can no longer count out change. We have cash registers that tell them exactly what to give back to the customer. So they can no longer figure it out on their own.

The if you REALLY want to confuse her, ask her to give you a five for those five singles.

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my bill was $15.30. I gave the cashier A 20 and a single. SHe yelled at me, gave me back my single and gave me four singles and 70cents.
ok, much easier her way.......

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 I do this when I pay with cash (which is really rare these days). When they give me the confused look,I just say "trust me and type it in as I gave it to you". Sometimes when they get my change, they say "ohhhhhhhhh, I get it!" Sometimes they just stay confused. 

I think the change problem stems from everyone using plastic. Hardly anyone uses cash anymore. If we used it more, we would be better at it.

I haven't carried more than a few dollars in cash on me for the last 10 years or so. Unless I am traveling and need it for tolls (and most toll places take plastic now or EasyPass) or unless I am overseas and even then I use plastic for the good exchange rate.

I was constantly training people how to count back change. I really don't know why it is so hard for people to learn.

Had one young, new cashier with .34 in her hand ask me if it was right cause she couldn't count money.

Took her off the register immediately.

Cant tell you how many times I ran more than one register because the power went off or something and the cashiers couldn't conduct transactions without the register.

It was something I made sure to teach my kids. There is no excuse for some things.

I remember getting worksheets where you had a quarter and you had to circle the coins that made change for it using the smallest amount of coins possible. We had to learn all about change. Now granted I went to school when the dinosaurs roamed the earth but they don't teach this skill anymore. Sad really.

SS will count his piggy bank over and over again. He can tell you exactly what is in there!

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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I remember getting worksheets where you had a quarter and you had to circle the coins that made change for it using the smallest amount of coins possible. We had to learn all about change. Now granted I went to school when the dinosaurs roamed the earth but they don't teach this skill anymore. Sad really.

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 DD's class is doing it a little. They are not that far, but when adding and subtracting they work with money too. 

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 I remember those worksheets! 

 

I am sure you can blame standardized testing...counting change is probably not on the tests. 

Mellow Momma wrote:

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MM, do you remember in school being taught to count change? Remember having to learn how many pennies equaled a dime and how many different coins equaled a quarter and on an on? They don't teach that anymore. Kids don't have to learn that. Why? No reason to because cash registers will figure it out for you automatically. In this day and age we have machines that figure out everything for us so there's no reason to actually KNOW how to do it without the machine. Or so they think.

SS is in fourth grade. They have never dealt with money and we asked his teacher if they will. She said they no longer teach that. We are teaching him about money at home.

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 Kids need to be taught if for no other reason than to know if they are getting short changed or not. 

 

I have never seen a register that would tell you how many of each coin to give out. Most, even the newest, will tell you just what the change should be. Now, I think at McDonalds and other fast food places, they have more "idiot proof" change suggestions...I think they actually tell you which coins to give out. That's wrong. 

anyone who has ever rung up a register for any length of time can tell you that .41 is one of everything in the change cups, quarter, dime, nickel, penny. 

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 I was thinking exactly of McDonald's.  All the fast food places in our area tell what to give back.

The other day when DH and I went to see American Sniper the cash register was having issues.  The guy couldn't give out change.  They actually had to call a manager in.

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Mellow Momma wrote:

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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MM, do you remember in school being taught to count change? Remember having to learn how many pennies equaled a dime and how many different coins equaled a quarter and on an on? They don't teach that anymore. Kids don't have to learn that. Why? No reason to because cash registers will figure it out for you automatically. In this day and age we have machines that figure out everything for us so there's no reason to actually KNOW how to do it without the machine. Or so they think.

SS is in fourth grade. They have never dealt with money and we asked his teacher if they will. She said they no longer teach that. We are teaching him about money at home.

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 Kids need to be taught if for no other reason than to know if they are getting short changed or not. 

 

I have never seen a register that would tell you how many of each coin to give out. Most, even the newest, will tell you just what the change should be. Now, I think at McDonalds and other fast food places, they have more "idiot proof" change suggestions...I think they actually tell you which coins to give out. That's wrong. 

anyone who has ever rung up a register for any length of time can tell you that .41 is one of everything in the change cups, quarter, dime, nickel, penny. 

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 I was thinking exactly of McDonald's.  All the fast food places in our area tell what to give back.

The other day when DH and I went to see American Sniper the cash register was having issues.  The guy couldn't give out change.  They actually had to call a manager in.

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 That would be funny if it weren't so sad. 

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Mellow Momma wrote:

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NAOW wrote:

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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I remember getting worksheets where you had a quarter and you had to circle the coins that made change for it using the smallest amount of coins possible. We had to learn all about change. Now granted I went to school when the dinosaurs roamed the earth but they don't teach this skill anymore. Sad really.

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 DD's class is doing it a little. They are not that far, but when adding and subtracting they work with money too. 

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 I remember those worksheets! 

 

I am sure you can blame standardized testing...counting change is probably not on the tests. 

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 Nope.  And like Lily said no analog clocks.  It's all about teaching for the test.  We heard that so much in the conference with SS's teacher the other day.

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 All the more reason to home school. 

 

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The other day I was talking to a lady about disability and what I know about the system. She'd had spinal surgery and lost feeling in one of her feet. She was truly disabled. She said she applied and was denied four times. I didn't understand why for the life of me. A week later she tells me that she's here illegally. Sigh.

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 See...when she applied they should have deported her if she admitted on the form that she was illegal. That is ridiculous. I hate people who try and get services like that and don't truly deserve them. ner disability qualifies her, but her status says she doesn't deserve them anymore than I deserve the social programs from Finland or France!

 

I am socially liberal on a lot of topics. But when it comes to immigration I am really conservative. Yes, my great grandparents immigrated. But they did it legally and followed the letter of the law. They didn't ask the schools to teach Italian, they encouraged their kids to learn English . They held jobs and were  active members of the community and worked to make the US a better place. They were not takers. Urgh!

I am pretty conservative with US immigration law too. I did everything I could do - legally - to become legal, but it was a no-go. Even though I had an advanced degree, was a skilled worker, and had held a long term job while on my work visa. I also didn't use any social services, but contributed to all of them. I also paid through my nose for health insurance.

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Tignanello wrote:

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I am pretty conservative with US immigration law too. I did everything I could do - legally - to become legal, but it was a no-go. Even though I had an advanced degree, was a skilled worker, and had held a long term job while on my work visa. I also didn't use any social services, but contributed to all of them. I also paid through my nose for health insurance.

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 You are the kind of person I would happily allow in! Paying taxes, going through all the proper channels, etc. 

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 I thought so too!  But apparently Homeland Security disagreed.  They'd rather populate the country with illegals.  I could have been an illegal.  I also had offers of fake marriage and a guy who would get me a new name, a green card and a line of credit.  I didn't do any of it, and I lost everything :(

I don't get it either. It makes no sense to me whatsoever.

When we lived in Indiana, there was a facility near us (some type of medical research or something, I really am not sure, it had a generic name) that brought over people from India by the score. There were condos near our house that had 8 people living in each unit, multiple generations of the same family, that the company brought over. I don't have a problem with the company bringing people over here to work, but I did wonder how hard the company looked to fill those positions with college graduates from the US. I am betting they paid far less than a grad here would take. Several of the families would get into trouble with the law for simple things like noise ordinances, parking violations, etc because they didn't know the customs here and weren't aware of the laws and the older folks couldn't read English. It was kind of a cluster.

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Sometimes I think our system makes it too hard for honest people like Tig and way too easy for the cheaters.

Obama just had a little press conference and said illegal immigrants are Americans in every sense of the word except they're here illegally. Um, isn't that the very definition of not being an American? He also said they are our neighbors and we should be kind to them. Hey, I'm kind to my neighbors but I don't want them living in my backyard and using my electricity that I pay for.

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 That is an excellent analogy!!  

And how close do you have to live to be considered a neighbor? If I live down the block (or in Syria) am I still a neighbor? Or does my property have to touch yours (like Canada?) 

And I don't want to have to call the cops on them either. I want them to live next to me, keep their house nice to maintain property values, and cut their grass regularly. I don't want more of a relationship than just a wave when I am getting the mail.

Ha! I just had another marriage proposal. From a woman who I have had a professional relationship with who I think might have been serious. It was a little unnerving - How do you say no to a fake marriage proposal that might be rooted in truth for the other person?