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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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LoveFifteen 0
If $40 minus $25 requires you to reach for a calculator, then I don't think you're in your ideal career. *cringe*
Da_Gov 0
you dumbfuck YDI
demonkey_fml 4
My mother taught me backwards math. Round up the $40.00 to an easier figure (say $50.00) $50.00 - $25.00 = 25.00 subtract the $10.00 you added to the $40.00 = $15.00 Change = 15.00 This used to be called "old math" before some dildohead made up the "new math" which has everyone grabbing for the calculator. Old math you can do in your head. We should all learn it.
JCho321 0
or you can subtract 25 from 40...
plexico 4
I'm sure they weren't mad at you personally, it was just that they were so filled with shame that their life's work is unleashing idiots like you on the world with a so-called diploma in your hand!
ramdoodle45 0
YDI for being a dumbass and not making the most of school. There's a reason you don't qualify for anything above ticket stand cashier, failure.
Chubtubdaplaya 0
#39 lol
nikki1001 0
omg I really hope you are from South Jersey. I'm from North Jersey and went to public school, but at least I can do 40-25!!
merri_fml 0
Not only did I go to public school, I was in remedial math courses. Even I'm able to tell you that you'd owe the woman $15...YDI
LolCows 0
Are you mildly retarded?
lucky0514 0
public school? i don't know what type of area you live in, but i've gone to public schools all my life and i learned how to do subtraction like that in third grade YDI.
01100110 0
how do you get hired and not be able to do that?