Today, I was working in the box office. A group came in for tickets but wanted to pay individually. One paid $40 for a $25 ticket. Laughing, I reached for the calculator while saying, "I went to public school, so I can't do math." They didn't laugh. They were all teachers in public schools. FML
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Today, I was tending the cash register. I scanned a lady's items which totaled $89.68. She paid with a $100 bill. I gave her $11.32 change. She angrily gave back the extra dollar and complained about "schools nowadays". I'm an AP Calculus student. FML
Today, I went with my friends to see a movie. I handed my student card over to the cashier as proof I was old enough to see it, and he started laughing hysterically at my picture. Then he called over a colleague, who also started laughing. FML
Today, I was working a concert ticket booth. A lady gave me her ticket, I punched it, and told her to enjoy the show. She asked for the “hotel.” Apparently, she thought that the concert ticket cost included a hotel stay, since she traveled from out of state. She cussed me out and had to be escorted out. FML
Today, a lady came into my workplace to pay her $120 bill in one dollar bills. I kept losing count. FML
Today, I rang up a customer’s items. The total came out to $24.67. She handed me a bag full of coins and looked at me expectantly. I asked if she had any other payment methods; she got irritated and said ,“If I did, I wouldn’t have given you this, stupid!” I had to count them. She was still 6 dollars short. FML
Today, as I worked as a cashier, two girls came up laughing. I smiled as I rang them up, asking what had made them laugh so hard. One looked me dead in the face and said, "You." They then both walked away, laughing. FML
Today, in calculus, our substitute teacher told me I was smart. Everybody in the class, including my friends, burst out laughing. FML
Today, I went grocery shopping. Being a bartender, I had a huge wad of dollar bills from cash tips. As I was counting them at the register, I looked at the cashier and joked, "You probably think I'm a stripper or something." He looked me up and down and said, "Uh... hell no." FML
Today, it was our class field trip. I got five dollars from ten different people because they wanted me to sit away from them. FML
Today, while checking out a couple at work, I handed them their receipt and wished them a good day. The woman promptly pulled her husband to the side, and whispered to him about how much of a "fucking idiot" I was for making the prices so high. I work at McDonald's. FML
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ZuRG_fml 7
Why? Why are people so giddy that they're mathematically incapable? Nobody goes, "teehee, I read at a 6th-grade level!" "I struggle with subject/verb agreement and homophones in my native language!" Don't be proud of the fact that you're a dumbass.
iKaite 0
Its really not that hard a sum, dude. o_O
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Stormcat 0
YDI for being a dumbass and not being able to figure out 40-25 You cant blame it on school, hobo's can do better math than that
cuppycakemagic 0
#190 (and all others who are complaining), it seems to me that YOU are being a dumbass. Clearly, this person wasn't actually blaming this on public schools - they were joking about it. I was easily able to tell this because the word 'laughing' usually denotes that something is funny; hence, a joke. Also, even though I'm in 8th grade taking 9th grade math, I would have used a calculator. I'm good at math, but sometimes I can be a little slow. And yes. This is a win. And kind of a fail... A wail or a fin, whatever strikes you, I suppose. ;D
carlottabobatta 0
OMG fail. I also can't believe this thread is debating 40- 25. It equals 15 and #67, no. This isn't a thread to discuss evrything in math in general... It's to discuss this person's FAILing to be smart. Whis is quite fun. And no, you don't make that joke, /to strangers/, okay? Sheesh.
da_funk_masta 0
Hey OP: it's not because your from a public school it's cause your from new jersey.
Compass 0
These are the kind of teachers I hate. They don't even have a sense of humor. Always serious.
mooshibear140 4
YDI...like seriously? my nine-year-old brother can figure that out in like 8 seconds. o.0
alexthecutie 0
public school teachers get paid to do nothing
evi661 0
what's the big deal? the teachers had a long stick up their ass.
Emperorerror 8
Rofl fail. And any 5th grader in public school knows that 40-25=15
TheOtherMakona 0
I go to public school and I've impressed college kids. So XP
kibotoyuki 7
First off, YDI because you can't figure out the answer to an extremely simple math problem. Second of all, why should going to a public school mean that you can't do math? If you seriously can't solve 40-25 in your head, you're an idiot.