Maths Genius

Don't you just hate getting lectures from people who are so ignorant they correct you on things you know far more about than they do?

I went shopping today, and parked in a multi-storey car park attached to the shopping centre (mall) by a pedestrian bridge.

Just as I was about to go back across to leave, I realised I didn't have any change for the ticket machine. I went to the cash desk in the store I was about to leave and asked if they could change a £5 note next time the till (cash register) was open, but everyone seemed to be paying with cards, so the cashier asked someone else (a supervisor?) if they could open a till and change the money for me.

No, she said, because the till would not then balance.

Of course it will, I said, I give you a £5 note, you give me 5 £1 coins, it's still the same amount of money.

No, she explained to the idiot who could not understand the simple principles of mathematics, it knows if you've taken £5 out.

Please don't talk rubbish to me, I replied. You will also have put £5 in, the till doesn't know if a customer has given you one £5 note or 5 £1 coins. Nor does it know if you gave change to a customer as a £5 note or five coins. She suggested getting someone who could explain her logic to this dolt customer.

Don't bother, I said, I'm now an ex-customer of this store. (For UK vixens, it was Debenhams in Bromley, a major store in a major shopping centre.)

Across the way a small one-off store changed my £5 with absolutely no problem, and I was able to get out of the car park without further ado.

I also made note of the fact that the machines in the car park can now give you change from notes...