smarter people should work at cash registers.

You know when you’re at the grocery store and they add up all the items and then the total comes to $13.27, and the guy asks, do you by any chance have 27 cents?  (This happens more in France because for some reason no one ever has change.)   And so you look, and you’re like, “Oh, I dont have 27, but I have 32.  Will that help you?” knowing very well that it will, because he can just give you a nickel back (is this when they got their name??  Bad experiences in supermarkets?  Well I hate them too).  And then the cashier looks at you like you’re crazy, and looks around, shoots a glance the people in line, like, “Did you just hear that? Why would she be trying to give me 32 cents instead of 27?!  Insane!”  And the almighty cashier kind of waves his hand rejecting your change and says, “It’s okay,” in a kind of pitying way, like, “I’m sorry you’re not smart enough to figure out that 32 does not equal 27.”  And you just take it, because you don’t want to prolong the in-the-line time, and because you don’t want to make the cashier look dumb.  And then when you’re walking out the door, you realize… that cashier thought I was an idiot!!  But really he should know that HE is the idiot.  And then you regret that you never said anything.  And then you decide that cashiers rejecting your change because they think it will make it more complicated, even though you know it will only make it easier is something you really really hate.