Overheard while waiting in the checkout line:
Cashier: Your total is $18.76. Hey – 1876 – that’s the year I was born!
Elderly Customer: 1876? I don’t think so, dear.
Cashier: Haha, I mean 1976. I wasn’t even thought of in 1876…
Elderly Customer: …
Cashier: I don’t even think my mom was a baby in 1876!
Happy Holidays!
Sigh.
Math is hard.
Perhaps it explains why she’s a cashier at 33 years old? Not that I’m judging or anything – a job’s a job these days. I’m just glad she has a fancy machine to tell her totals and doesn’t have to actually do math or anything.
I used to say I was born in 1877 until someone asked me how George Washington was. I think I was about 6 when I found out that nugget.
That was definitely a fail, but I’m glad we can all chuckle at her expense. I agree with Daisee579 in the fact it’s probably good she’s not wingin’ it on the math.
Does she give that type of commentary to everyone?
“Your total is $9.25. Hey, that’s my birthday!”
“Your total is $33.50. Hey, that’s my waist size!”
I think the best response would have been, “Hey, you’re totally stupid!”
Old people always think they’re so smart. That cashier will be the one laughing at this story a few years from now when time travel becomes common.
Wooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
What’s a hundred years or so?
I love that picture!
I miss entries like this.