Shayne Parkinson on Nostr: Felt my age (in a good way) just now. The cafe till had malfunctioned, so staff were ...
Felt my age (in a good way) just now. The cafe till had malfunctioned, so staff were working out totals using a calculator. All fine till I waved my card for a discount. Lovely young woman at counter tried to work it out but was stumped. Asked another staffer, who said "I don't know how to do percents." I offered to help, asked the total and said the discount - 10%, so super-easy if you know how. As I told them, "I'm older than calculators" - not strictly true, but older than mass-market ones.
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