Sunday, January 7, 2007

Math Overload

After a middle aged woman with Wanda on her nametag took my order at Quizno's today, I moved down the line to pay for my sub. I quizzed two teenagers standing behind the register, "How  ya doin."

"Boooooring," moaned the girl with Celeste on her nametag.

"Slow day?"

"Yep," as she rung up the sale; $8.69 appeared on the register screen.

I gave her a gift card worth five dollars.

When she credited the five dollars, the $8.69 morphed into $3.69.

I gave her a ten dollar bill for the remainder.

A long pause; a perplexed look. "The machine has a problem," Celeste confessed.

She yelled to Wanda, "It won't figure out the change."

Wanda couldn't fix the register problem. She then showed Celeste where the hand held calculator was kept.

It took a few tries on the calculator, but Celeste finally solved the ten take away three sixty-nine problem.