Teachers Strike

Too many?

 

Have you tried going to a Supermarket till and offered the odd change with a note to a cashier under 40. (sorry if that is ageist)
Bill is £12.11p for example. Hand over £20 and ask "can I give you the 11p".
Almost always the answer is:- "It's Ok. Got plenty of change"
What I meant was "I'm trying to get less change in my pocket"
What the operator meant was "I've already keyed in the note value and the till has told me the amount of change. I can't work out anything different"
Get an "older generation" operator and the respond with "OK. Thank you" and sort it out in their head. - mind you, they - like me - would have had to sit every week and recite times tables etc., work things out on paper and use "Mental Arithmetic".
Ask a modern student what Mental Arithmetic is and see what answer you get!

 

I think the NUTs is right and we ought to go back to proper schooling like what I got

 

Claralou QUOTE
"Are you having a party, Jack"

Only at home on my own, my lunch time pals gave me a retirement pressy today of amongst other things a nice bottle of Talisker ten year old Malt :-)

When I get home on Friday night I will sit with it and reflect on the past 50 years of work without a break (apart from the stroke episode for six months in 2002)

I left school on the Friday and commenced employment on the Monday, and have worked (being employed) every day since to quit at 65

I am looking forward to my new garden venture, and the Gym, and I already miss the 300 miles a day driving in my previous employ reducing to 60pd in my current job
to go down to NIL will be a shock and withdrawl symptoms

Jack McH

 

I have a sticker on the back of my car and it reads

If u can reed diz fank a teher
if ur reding it in engsh fank a solger

 

Not on my watch you're not

You're getting the full on GC retirement party thread