Ordering a combo meal at the Sonic drive-in with a DIET COKE...the order taker immediately offers to add a slice of CHEESECAKE for dessert (I think, "oh sure, that will more than make up for the lack of sugar in my drink...next time I'll just order a diabetic coma 'to go' " )...the carhop brings my order, I give her a $5 & 2 pennies for a $4.92 tab, & the little airhead tries to give me 8 cents change because she doesn't have a cash register in front of her to tell her what the correct change should be...I drove off thinking again of the deporable state of education these days, & how as a cashier in the old days, I had to know how to calculate change (& even sales tax at times) IN MY HEAD...

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