It's a dying art...
The art of counting change.
We went to Wibbley's for the best fucking hamburger short of zips in Cincinnati ever. I ordered the Wibbley burger deluxe with a 1/2 order of fries. My order taker who we will call Tyler to protect his anonymity. Took my order wrong. No worries he read it back and it was all good. No not a mushroom burger, ick that's a fungus. No not a full order of fries, just a 1/2 (again all good). So he rang me up, correctly announced the total, as I was taught when I worked cashier at Kings Island when I was 15 or so. Then I handed him a 20 and he hit the button without entering my $20.00. I could see it on his face. Oh shit. Poor Tyler was stressed out. I said, "Dude this is easy, just count up the 12 cents all the way to a dollar that gets you six then count up to 20 in bills." Tyler didn't listen (just yet) he went with the subtraction method. He came up with some change amount from the subtraction and was then stuck. His boss wasn't sure what was wrong but Mr. Wibbley was busy Wibbley burgering or whatever. So then I tried again and said, "OK you got me to six now count up to twenty with bills." Again with the subtraction. He counted out 12 bucks. He was about to short me two dollars. Trust me I'm short enough without Tyler's help. So now I said, "It's 6, and 4 is ten, ten is twenty." This didn't jive in Tylers head. Wibbley comes over and I think thinks I'm trying to short Tyler (who is like 8 feet tall and 12 years old seemingly) I said again, "It's 6 and 4 is ten. ten is twenty. You have the ten right, but you only have 2. The correct change is $14.00." Wibbley concurs. At least I think that was what he meant by the noise. I get my money and I re-explain counting change to Tyler a little bit.
Wibbley hands him a calculator... This is why it's a dying art. Bygones.
We went to Wibbley's for the best fucking hamburger short of zips in Cincinnati ever. I ordered the Wibbley burger deluxe with a 1/2 order of fries. My order taker who we will call Tyler to protect his anonymity. Took my order wrong. No worries he read it back and it was all good. No not a mushroom burger, ick that's a fungus. No not a full order of fries, just a 1/2 (again all good). So he rang me up, correctly announced the total, as I was taught when I worked cashier at Kings Island when I was 15 or so. Then I handed him a 20 and he hit the button without entering my $20.00. I could see it on his face. Oh shit. Poor Tyler was stressed out. I said, "Dude this is easy, just count up the 12 cents all the way to a dollar that gets you six then count up to 20 in bills." Tyler didn't listen (just yet) he went with the subtraction method. He came up with some change amount from the subtraction and was then stuck. His boss wasn't sure what was wrong but Mr. Wibbley was busy Wibbley burgering or whatever. So then I tried again and said, "OK you got me to six now count up to twenty with bills." Again with the subtraction. He counted out 12 bucks. He was about to short me two dollars. Trust me I'm short enough without Tyler's help. So now I said, "It's 6, and 4 is ten, ten is twenty." This didn't jive in Tylers head. Wibbley comes over and I think thinks I'm trying to short Tyler (who is like 8 feet tall and 12 years old seemingly) I said again, "It's 6 and 4 is ten. ten is twenty. You have the ten right, but you only have 2. The correct change is $14.00." Wibbley concurs. At least I think that was what he meant by the noise. I get my money and I re-explain counting change to Tyler a little bit.
Wibbley hands him a calculator... This is why it's a dying art. Bygones.
posted by J.R. at 7:19 PM
2 Comments:
That's really sad...
LOL, that's classic! Thanks for the laugh. I haven't tried Wibbley's yet. How was the burg?
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