We went for icecreams at the weekend (yes I know it was freezing but we were at the seaside....) I asked for 3 of the 70p cones.
I had £2.10 ready, I hardly needed to even do the sum in my head.
The girl gave us 3 cones, I had put £2.10 on the counter. She waited for her colleague to finish using the calculator while I said pleasantly - 'its £2.10'. She appeared to tap in the numbers wrongly cos she took a really long time to tap in 3 x 70 =, I said nicely -'its £2.10'.
She finally said 'thats £2.10 please'.
Fair enough if they are adding up a massive order with lots of different types of ice creams. But if you work in a place where you sell multiples of the same thing a lot of the time, wouldn't you sort of get to know the price of 2, 3, 4 of each kind or thing?
But then I worked in pubs before they had those clever tills and had to add everything up in my head right first time or the drunks would complain to the landlord.
AIBU? Or am I just so old that I forget the young un's rely on calculators all the time now?