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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I guess so. At the grocery store I shop at, the internet was down, so no credit cards, cash only. The clerks were using a calculator to figure the prices. I had several items and she used the calculator, figured in the sales tax, and said that is $2.95. I laughed and said the bananas alone are that much. She added them up again and could not figure it out. She finally said the prices and I added them up on a piece of paper, and she could figure the tax. I handed her a $20 and she started trying to calculate the change. Once again I had to do my arithmetic magic, and gave her the amount of change. She had a tough time counting the amount out.
Just the other day my wife was at Physical Therapy for her shoulder surgery. One of the mid 20 year old therapists asked another employee what time it was. They have a huge analog cock on the wall. The reply is can't you see that huge clock? He admitted he had no idea how to tell time.
In another 20 years they will be running the country. A bunch of dummies.
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I am with you on this, but remember back in the old days, did a typical young men know how to attend the horses or even fix a wagon wheel in the 50s? That was just 50 or so years ago that those were common knowledge just like fixing simple things around the house. Can you or most of us here hang with a kid on computer related stuff? I sure can't.