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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8307513, member: 100459&quot;]CASE 1:&nbsp; I&#039;ve noticed on several occasions, women that bring a hand calculator to the store to tally up their purchases.&nbsp; When their purchases are scanned, they compare the totals.&nbsp; However, it gets complicated with sales taxes.&nbsp; Food is 2% and other purchases are 7%.&nbsp; To verify the taxes, they would have to keep up with groceries separate than other purchases.&nbsp; In our state, soft drink purchases are not considered food.&nbsp; When the change of tax rates first came up, sales taxes on Pepsis, and other soft drinks, we paid 2%.&nbsp; Our state legislators, in their infinite wisdom, decided that soft drinks and other beverages were a luxury and 7% should be charged.</p><p>CASE 2:&nbsp; When I went to school, we were taught how to make change in First Grade.&nbsp; However, it seems to be a lost art, like writing in cursive (another problem..I can&#039;t spell.)&nbsp; Many businesses today have cash registers that scan your purchases and when cash is paid, it tells the employee how much of each denomination is to be given in return.&nbsp; (I like the story above telling how the change to be given is $9.95, and the patron offers to give the employee a nickel so the cashier would give a $10 bill in return.)&nbsp; </p><p>My wife was a High School English Teacher for over 30 years.&nbsp; She told me that her students were &quot;dumb as dirt&quot; when it came to total up their grades.</p><p>My wife used to get upset with me when we would go to a McDonald&#039;s and I could tally up the amount due, what the change should be, and how many of each denomination I was to receive in change.&nbsp; I retired 10 years ago as a CPA working for the state.&nbsp; I had fun doing it, but cashiers aren&#039;t the only ones unable to give change.&nbsp; I have more stories that I got from the people I did work for.&nbsp; Even many CPA&#039;s can&#039;t count.&nbsp; They use H &amp; R Block to do taxes (so do I).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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