So, how was it?

I was just telling myself no, I can't write about my new job because my new boss is my friend on Facebook and my Facebook page links to this blog and he might read it OMG! then I realized waaaiiit... considering I didn't burn the store down or steal all the money or even alienate people, what the fuck am I going to blog that's more embarrassing and compromising than what I have already blogged about on this blog? Like for instance getting kind of turned on by an Onion article. So, as always, god forbid any of my work colleagues should ever discover this blog, but not because I'm going to say anything the least bit shocking about them or their business (unless it's the public library, in which case it's a continuous lurid exposé), but because nobody needs to know half of what goes on in my mind. Except of course for total strangers, and friends who I've known 1.) at least 10 years, and/or 2.) carnally...and to all of you I say Hello. Welcome back.

So.

I just got back from four days minding a shop some ways out of town, because these things happen. For a reclusive, antisocial person like myself it's actually something of a dream come true as it affords me the opportunity to spend the bulk of my free time alone with the beverage of my choice; and also to spend a fair portion of my work day making buttons! Making buttons is fun, y'all. I may have made too many.

The most surprising moment of the weekend may have been the moment I finally yielded to my mother's exhortations to count back change the old-fashioned way. It works. It really works. And when most of your customers are over fifty, it works especially well. And when you're not super slick with maths, it is your friend.

(this is not how to do it)

Yeah I thought somebody would have a video explaining this. But say you have an item that costs $5.18, and the customer gives you $6.

It's so simple.

Start with the price of the thing--$5.18--and hold that in your mind. You will now add coins to that amount, til you reach the amount the customer paid.

1. Say: "Five eighteen."
2. Locate two pennies, because you want to round out that number to:
3. "Five twenty"
4. Locate a nickel.
5. "Five twenty five" (see what I'm doing here?)
6. Locate three quarters:
7. "Five fifty! Five seventy five! aaaaaand SIX DOLLARS!"

Voilá. You just made your generation look good. Though it's probably best not to use too much of a flourish no matter how proud you are of yourself for not being an idiot.

...Did I do that right?


p.s. Girls talking about change is apparently a genre! I'm so proud to be a part of it in my own small way.