Another view on this - back in the day when I was a struggling college student (before the Jedi Master era ;) I worked at Taco Bell. In drive through, it was always safer to give them the paper money first, then the change, so that the change would 'weigh down' the paper money and it wouldn't fly away.
-rc > -----Original Message----- > From: Braver, Ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:29 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Math+FastFood > > > Pet peeve: > > when they "counted up" your change from amount due to amount > tendered, they used to give you the coins first. They worked > up to the next dollar, then counted out the bills. > > now, the stupid machine says "give them $3.45" so they give > you the bills, then dump the coins on top of the bills. Of > course a lot of the time coins slide off. I try to say > "please give me the coins *first*, then the bills" and get > blank, uncomprehending stares, as if that won't work for some > reason. Puny cpu's in robots with limited programming, <sigh>. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
