Ok, just have to share this one. It's like a bit right out of some stand-up routine!
On Tuesdays, I pick up my daughter from daycare and head back up to pick up my wife from work an hour later. In the meantime, we stop at McD's for a happy meal. (It's the only time any of us eat fast food...yay!) I drive up yesterday, order, and pull around to the first window. Total is $7.41, so I dig out some change and hand the girl at the window the following:
One $5 bill
Two $2 bills
1 quarter
2 dimes
1 penny
To her credit, she counts the change before putting it into the register. I say 'her credit' because this is apparently the only smart thing she does while I'm there. This late-teen blondie counts it twice, pushes a few buttons on the screen, turns to someone inside that I can't see, and makes the gesture of counting with her fingers at this other person. The other girl walks over, they talk for about 5 seconds, she nods her head and walks away. Blondie puts the change in the drawer, looks at it for another 2 seconds, then pulls out a nickel, opens the window to give me my change, and says, "You know you handed me 46 cents?" My reply was, "Yes, I didn't have any nickels, but now I do."
I drove off wanting to go club a baby seal, or myself for that matter.
...and they let 'em vote & breed...