SHOPPING

ANOTHER CASE OF "SERVICE WITH A SMILE"

Donnie reports, "The young are not to be envied.  So dumb.

I bought a bag of deer corn for $11.47.  As the clerk is turning to the register I say, "I think I have the 47 cents."  "Too late," he replies, "I already rang it up."

First I thought he was joking, then I saw him fishing the coins out of the register.  He could not make the simple calculation in his brain, or maybe he thought that once the machine has been told what is happening, one can't move the money any other way."