Saturday, September 15, 2007

The decline and fall of Western Civilization: drugstore edition

So, my mom went to the local CVS the other day, where she picked up various items which cost $21.48. She handed the cashier exactly twenty-two bucks in good old American greenbacks. The girl behind the register, apparently baffled by this non-exact-change transaction had to go find a calculator to figure out the correct change, and in my dear old mother's words, "she had trouble with the calculator, too." I honestly have no idea why the cash register didn't tell her that she had to dish out 52 cents.

Anyway, I would like to welcome our new alien, Morlock, or Chinese overlords, whichever the case may be. Because we're totally screwed.

1 comments:

Kevin Parrott said...

I like how at some fast food restaurants, there are no numbers on the registers, just pictures of the food.