I'm 64 years old so, I grew up in a time when General Stores were where we all shopped. The attendants stood behind a counter and all the stuff were packed in shelves on there side of the counter. The customer were then "served"; you asked for the things you needed and the attendant fetched the goods for you. One could also hand in a note, or use a "grocery book" and your goods were then packed in a box and you could come and collect it later on. Now these General Dealers sold everything, from a policeman to a dead eliphant!! And the most wonderful smell lingered in such a shop. Only someone who have been in such a shop, will know what I mean.
Whenever I open a box/tin of snuff and I bring it to my nose, the smell carries me away to those days!! And I love it

Yeah and nowadays I can't get a cashier to understand why when my total is 5.77 I am giving them 11 dollars and 2 cents! They think I am trying to pull a scam or something!

LOL. What always got me thought was it was always a cashier with a computer cash register. They could type in anything and it would do the math for them. Shoot most fast food places have a machine that count out your change and dispenses it for you automatically. I remember one time I had given someone a ten and a one when the total was five dollars and change. I didn't go as far as trying to make the change correct, I just wanted a five back. The person kept giving me my one back saying that ten was enough. So finally I just said fine and after she gave me four ones back I gave her my dollar and asked for a five. Still didn't click in the cashiers head!

Ohh I know it. Growing up I can remember at least three jobs I had where I had to stand at a cash register. A convenient store, a grocery store, and a fast food place. From what I remember the fast food place had their cash registers completely computerized. It was a touch screen computer with mostly pictures of things. When you rang somebody up it would show you pictures of all the dollars and cents and give you a few different amount that the customer might give you. Like I said earlier as well when you rang them up the coins would automatically be dispensed from a machine so you never had to count them. I mean it was just so obvious of the caliber of people the store knew they were employing. I soon decided construction would be more my style while still in school.

the very first times i tried best sp and high dry toast they seemed very familiar like i remembred them from a past life. i don't really believe in reincarnation but those two just brought about like a deja vu of the same kind i get whenevr i smell a black iron fence thats been in the weather.

Last week I was in Tesco's supermarket and noticed an end-of-aisle display stocked with booze and large "1/3 off" signs.

Out of about a dozen items on display, only one actually had 1/3 off. A bottle of vodka had only been reduced from £17.94 to £13.19.

I called over an assistant who looked at the prices for a bit then went off to find a manager.

When the manager arrived and I pointed out that the price of the vodka should actually be £11.96, she stared blankly at the shelf and admitted that she couldn't work it out.

"Let's make it easier", I said. "It's just under 18 quid, so a third off should make it just under 12 quid". Still a blank face.

Finally she told me to take the bottle and the sign to the Customer Services desk and they would work out and honour the price reduction.

Unbelievable !

Well that screwed me right up.
As child in Canada during the early 80's we were not taught fractions as important life rewarding lessons.It lasted about 2 days and we were on to other things. Kind of like a history lesson. Infact, as of 1978 Canada changed to the metric system and slowly killed of the "standard" of inches, feet, fractions, etc.. I had to google a little bit there to remember what the hell a 1/3 actually was!! LOL!!! not quite a 1/2 but a little more then a 1/4.
Can't get these pie charts out of my mind!!
I'll just stick with percent.
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I tried some TOQUE Natural this morning on a "clean" nose. It really is STRONG but pleasantly so. The tobacco flavour is unreal and it took me far away, to me childhood days. It reminded me of early mornings on the farm, when we were headed for the open fields to gather sheep on horseback. When one walked into the stables to collect the saddles and headgear, the smell of the leather was so nice. Then, when the horses were saddled and just before we took off, the farmhands would light their pipes, filled with STRONG Springbok tobacco. The lovely smell of the burning tobacco would linger on the early morning breeze, making me crave for some smoke myself. But I was only a kid then and not supposed to smoke yet! I believe TOQUE Natural will become one of my firm favourites quite soon and, being a grown-up now, I may use it when ever I feel like it.