Modern Education
Picture the scene, sunbed shop, pretty but vacant girl behind the counter.

I had prebought credit and wanted a 6 minutes token taken from my balance of 105. You've already worked the sums in your head right ?... She didn't.

Out comes her calculator "You've got 93 minutes left, can you sign your sheet".

"I think your sums are wrong" I replied "I've used a calculator it must be right" she said, starting to get stroppy. Great I thought time for some sport...

"I'm sorry but I used my brain it's 99 minutes"

She looked about ready to explode, but we were right next to the shop owner. I don't think she could count either.

"Everyone makes mistakes" she said...

...Not with 12 years of schooling and a bloody calculator.
(Yellow Car is now red, Mon 10 Jan 2005, 13:24, Reply)