Priceless Moment...

Setting: Tuesday morning around 7:15am PDT at the Resort's coffee counter

Situation: I had just made my breakfast purchase which consisted of a huckleberry yogurt parfait and 1 Venti coffee of the day. Total cost of aforementioned purchase came to $5.09. Two forms of payment were used to cover the purchase cost - $5 hotel voucher (basically a $5 credit) and $10 bill as I had ran out of change during my previous weeks' stay and paying $0.09 for each breakfast purchase.

Moment: Cute, little blonde cashier who had to be at least 6+ years my junior, entered the payment into the register and the change amount came up as $4.91. She mumbled under her breath that that wasn't right and opened the drawer underneath the cash register to use the calculator to calculate my change. After she had done her creative math on the calculator, she counts out the $5 and four $1 bills and gives me my change of $0.10. I said that wasn't right and she proceeded to argue with me that since I had given her a $5 voucher and a $10 for the $5.09 purchase, that my change back was $9.10. I said I agreed with the $9, but the change should be $0.91. After she was done talking sternly to me in a raised voice, I think she finally got it that 100 - 9 = 91. I was shaking my head during the entire process because she entered in the wrong amount tendered, used a calculator to calc the difference AND STILL got it wrong!!! WHAT IS UP WITH EDUCATION THESE DAYS?!?! Are we so reliant on calculators and technology that we can't make correct change?!?!

Tsk Tsk... For Shame... Everyone should make sure no bills are passed to help support our schools because today's kids are turning out GR8!!!

What if tofu is people?

I'm reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged right now and I found my thoughts spilled out on the middle page 411. Dr. Ferris is talking with Rearden:

"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against--then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of law-breakers--and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

Thanks SOX404... thanks for my bonus and raise.