Dating - Good/Bad Experiences

[mc-m3]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

You want to have some fun? The next time you hear their big job is being a cashier, ask them what change you get if you give her $10.02 for a $8.27 purchase. No calculator allowed. I guarantee you will see a doe in headlights. It boggles my brain how no one can make change unless they key it into the register.

This is so true it makes me want to cry sometimes. Even better, give them $10.07 for the $8.82 purchase. They look at me as if I have 2 heads or something. I tell them to just enter it. All these people must have tubs of change at home since they don't know how to use is. Oh that's right they charge everything.

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by mc-m3

This is so true it makes me want to cry sometimes. Even better, give them $10.07 for the $8.82 purchase. They look at me as if I have 2 heads or something. I tell them to just enter it. All these people must have tubs of change at home since they don't know how to use is. Oh that's right they charge everything.

It's sad and a lost skill. My dad made me beat the cash register for a treat when I was young and it helped me learn to calculate in my head very quickly.

The future is in their hands!!

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Slacker. You forgot daughter of a wine importer or, better yet, owner of a great vineyard or distillery.

Your list is now complete. We're here to help each other with these important details!! You're welcome!!

I don't drink, so as long as she's not the daughter of a well-armed and over-protective psychopath, I'm good. But thanks for the assist!

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

You want to have some fun? The next time you hear their big job is being a cashier, ask them what change you get if you give her $10.02 for a $8.27 purchase. No calculator allowed. I guarantee you will see a doe in headlights. It boggles my brain how no one can make change unless they key it into the register.

They couldn't pour piss out of a boot if you wrote the directions on the sole. But by God, they've managed to memorize a list of 39 micro-aggressions to be on the lookout for, and the correct way of showing how offended they are for each of them.

Thanks, shitty socialist-infested schools.

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

It's sad and a lost skill. My dad made me beat the cash register for a treat when I was young and it helped me learn to calculate in my head very quickly.

The future is in their hands!!

A lifetime ago I was an inventory manager for a lumber wholesaler. Spent many an hour out prowling the yard, verifying and correcting inventory counts. I had to do 3- and 4-digit addition in my head, adding up the counts of multiple bundles - sometimes as many as 15 or 20. I had to do it in my head because calculators with LCD screens don't work when it's minus 20 degrees. And these precious snowflakes can't make change? There's no hope.

[Dang3r]

Originally Posted by FuriouslyFast

So you are gay & looking for a hairy Indian man. Hey man, do you!

Stop da fuq my head cinema immediately!

[Rmtt]

Originally Posted by FuriouslyFast

She have a sister? I'm back on Match...till they ban me again for no reason. Maybe I am too ugly.

Unfortunately no....but she has a brother that is 6'5", about 270lbs, and looks like he could be a member of the Duck Dynasty clan.

He does own a very successful business though.

Just keep doing what you are doing....it will happen when you least expect it. I read some of your posts on here, and I was the same way when single. But I wasn't looking for anything serious at that time either. So different week, different girl.

It's when I didn't care about it that it happened.

[Rmtt]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

It's sad and a lost skill. My dad made me beat the cash register for a treat when I was young and it helped me learn to calculate in my head very quickly.

The future is in their hands!!

I learned with an Abacus. I shit you not....it was in these "Project Climb" classes that they took a few of us out of elementary school on certain days to another campus. We got to do a lot of things that were not in the general curriculum in our traditional classes.

We also learned "Left to Right math" where after some work, you could do a lot of stuff mentally very quickly....although I have forgotten the concepts now.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

It's sad and a lost skill. My dad made me beat the cash register for a treat when I was young and it helped me learn to calculate in my head very quickly.

The future is in their hands!!

When we were kids, every night at the dinner table, my father would pick one of us (4 siblings) and call out a number. We had to do the multiplication tables to the beat of his hand on the table. Talk about pressure. I'll be damned, we can do math on the fly. And my father, still at 80, can run his finger down a page with 30, 40 numbers on it and total faster than any calculator.

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by Rmtt

I learned with an Abacus. I shit you not....it was in these "Project Climb" classes that they took a few of us out of elementary school on certain days to another campus. We got to do a lot of things that were not in the general curriculum in our traditional classes.

We also learned "Left to Right math" where after some work, you could do a lot of stuff mentally very quickly....although I have forgotten the concepts now.

Too funny...we had those, as well. When my parents were in their PhD program we were the guinea pigs for many an experimental learning program.

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

When we were kids, every night at the dinner table, my father would pick one of us (4 siblings) and call out a number. We had to do the multiplication tables to the beat of his hand on the table. Talk about pressure. I'll be damned, we can do math on the fly. And my father, still at 80, can run his finger down a page with 30, 40 numbers on it and total faster than any calculator.

Ah yes...the family table math contests. My dad is still the same at 88. When he sees math or any type of statistics he springs to life. It's good but a little disturbing. I never took him for any statistics class but my friends who did say it was an absolute boot camp and they came out not just knowing how to complete the problems but truly understanding formulaic relationships.

Positively tough parents are a boon to all of humanity. Now we get helicopter parents shepherding little darlings to an unrealistic world view and a hair trigger on being offended. Yea?

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Too funny...we had those, as well. When my parents were in their PhD program we were the guinea pigs for many an experimental learning program.



Ah yes...the family table math contests. My dad is still the same at 88. When he sees math or any type of statistics he springs to life. It's good but a little disturbing. I never took him for any statistics class but my friends who did say it was an absolute boot camp and they came out not just knowing how to complete the problems but truly understanding formulaic relationships.

Positively tough parents are a boon to all of humanity. Now we get helicopter parents shepherding little darlings to an unrealistic world view and a hair trigger on being offended. Yea?

I can relate. My parents were both science teachers. I think I still have a deck of periodic table flash cards somewhere. We didn't watch Happy Days; we watched Nova. Got my suitcase-sized chemistry set when I was about 6...and of course immediately took out the vial of mercury and rolled a blob of it around on the floor.

[Turkish Pickle]

Oh man it seems like i'd do great in retail after yesterday

went to chase to deposit my jar of coins, mostly pennies. they didn't have a coin counter so they made me count it (i had lots of time yesterday, first day of classes), spending an hour counting literal pennies will teach you a lot

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by Turkish Pickle

Oh man it seems like i'd do great in retail after yesterday

went to chase to deposit my jar of coins, mostly pennies. they didn't have a coin counter so they made me count it (i had lots of time yesterday, first day of classes), spending an hour counting literal pennies will teach you a lot

Welcome back, Pickle

[Turkish Pickle]

also, was writing down stuff on my post it pad and saw this a few pages down - i could not tell you who it was :I

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Positively tough parents are a boon to all of humanity.

This. Parents are a proxy for the world, and the world has no mercy for weaklings or dolts.

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

I can relate. My parents were both science teachers. I think I still have a deck of periodic table flash cards somewhere. We didn't watch Happy Days; we watched Nova. Got my suitcase-sized chemistry set when I was about 6...and of course immediately took out the vial of mercury and rolled a blob of it around on the floor.

Dude!! Same thing. Mercury wasn't sooooooo bad!!

[FuriouslyFast]

Originally Posted by Rmtt

Unfortunately no....but she has a brother that is 6'5", about 270lbs, and looks like he could be a member of the Duck Dynasty clan.

He does own a very successful business though.

Just keep doing what you are doing....it will happen when you least expect it. I read some of your posts on here, and I was the same way when single. But I wasn't looking for anything serious at that time either. So different week, different girl.

It's when I didn't care about it that it happened.

I really don't think caring/looking not caring/not looking has any bearing on when it happens. That's just something someone made up to feel better back in the day

[FuriouslyFast]

Originally Posted by Dang3r

Stop da fuq my head cinema immediately!

Looks like someone has no sense of humor!

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Dude!! Same thing. Mercury wasn't sooooooo bad!!

And the second thing I did was put everything under the microscope - stuff out of the fridge and kitchen cupboards, dead bugs, dog hair...I was a strange child. But focused as a mf-er.

The mercury didn't affect me at all. The third eye on the side of my head gives me hella peripheral vision. Blindspots? Nope.

[nyalpine90]

Originally Posted by Turkish Pickle

also, was writing down stuff on my post it pad and saw this a few pages down - i could not tell you who it was :I

first clue: its a woman's handwriting lol

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by nyalpine90

first clue: its a woman's handwriting lol

I sure hope so......

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

And the second thing I did was put everything under the microscope - stuff out of the fridge and kitchen cupboards, dead bugs, dog hair...I was a strange child. But focused as a mf-er.

The mercury didn't affect me at all. The third eye on the side of my head gives me hella peripheral vision. Blindspots? Nope.

And the hair falling out of my head? It'll grow back!!