I went to breakfast with my wife this morning after dropping our boy off at school. We went to Bojangles for some biscuits, and while we were in line I witnessed something so sad it was almost funny. The guy in front of us bought something that only cost $0.53. I don’t know what it was; in fact, I didn’t think there was anything there that cost so little. Anyway, to pay his $0.53, he handed the girl working the register a $1 bill. She laid the bill in the cash drawer and began to think. I know she was thinking because of the look on her face. After several seconds of “thought,” the look on her face changed from concentration to the “deer in the headlights” look. She then looked at the customer and said “How much change do I give you?” I was floored. This girl couldn’t make change from a $1. The customer was good enough to A) not laugh at her, and B) tell her $0.47.
What’s really sad is that this girl clearly graduated from high school, otherwise she would have been in school instead of working at Bojangles at 08:30. Sad, sad, sad. Pathetic, really.
That’s really sad in itself, but consider that if she had just bothered to tell the cash register that the customer gave her a $1 bill, it would have told her how much change to give.
Wow.