Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for December 02, 2024

An ungodly large number of people.

No, no I wouldn’t

I’ve ran into many people who don’t know what a “C” note is.

Even when you make it easy for them (which just makes it harder, it seems). Then again, if they’re smart enough to make change these days then they can easily get a better job.

For me it would sting a lot more to reward the ‘strategic incompetence’ than donating a little of my time to help him to calculate and find that exact change.

Most of these round up orgs I’ve never heard of, ask the cashier if she’d roundup your change for your Help Me From Having To Choose Between Food Or Medicine Org.

What’s that in his hand?

The cash register will tell the cashier how much change to give.I bought some salad ingredients and my bill came to $6.32. I gave the cashier $7.07 to get back 3 quarters. She gave me 68 cents because she punched in $7.00 instead of $7.07.

What no Google Pay?

They are the ones who can’t do it unless the cash register tells them the amount.

Where’s his tip jar?

I’ve given the exact amount to some younger cashier, they stand there looking at it for a while just dumbfounded.

What happens with the money? Education? Equipment?

Now that is not only funny but (alas) very true

Yes…please. Not in my skill set.

No thanks. How about you round down.

I remember, way back in the olden days when they taught math each year while in grade school. I even got advance math during high school. Addition and subtraction were easy.

Making change is not a matter of subtraction; it’s addition.

You add enough pennies to get to the next nickel, enough nickels to get to the next dime, enough dimes to get to the next quarter, enough quarters to get to the next dollars, enough dollars to get to the next 5, enough 5s to get to the next 10 and enough 10s to get to the next 20.

I give this comic 4.63 stars!

I remember when you could just pay for something and leave and not play 20 questions with a machine.

How about round down and the cashier gets to make up the difference?

Boy, isn’t this the truth!

Ha-ha, nice try!

No.

I don’t mind that so much as the automatic assumption that the minimum I want to tip is 15% for handing me a bag. I have gotten to the point where I hit the tab other amount, then enter 0.00

Stupid is a Stupid Does

I see PANIC in their eyes when handed cash!

Isn’t making change almost an obsolete skill these days, like taking shorthand or changing a typewriter ribbon?

Making change? Who uses cash anymore?

Yeah, this seems to be the gripe of the current age, cash registers constantly asking for extra for whatever, I think some folks took the wrong lessons from Covid don’t you ??? Happy Monday ! ;-)

A friend was the manager at a convenience store. She typically had $80 to $100 extra in the tills when she balanced them each day. Her clerks weren’t real good at making change.

bingo!

When I was promoted to a checker in 1977 we had manual cash registers so you had to know how much change to give back to a customer even if they decide in the last second to give you a partial coin change – pennies for example so they don’t end up with more pennies. I’ve done that to the cashiers after the register said X amount of change back and they almost always have a deer in the headlights look when I do LOL pretty much explains why America’s K12 students rank 27th or worse in Math worldwide.

That foundation has a WHOLE lot of members now-a-days..

Most cashiers these days can’t do it without a calculator.

And people complain about self-checkout aisles. Go figure.

Giving change by counting upwards is a lost art.

For years I ran restaurants then trained management, then wrote training manuals. I made sure I had a class going on how to make change. Of course this was “pre-computer” days and people actually had to think for themselves. Even today if I give a clerk change, I’ll tell them how much to give me back and in what denominations.

The reality of this cartoon staggers the mind!