An Imagined Dialog Highlighting the Deficiencies of Our Educational System
Fast Food Patron: I’d like the fish sandwich value meal, please.
Voice in Ordering Box: That’ll be $5.43. Drive up to the first window, please.
FFP: Okay.
(Fast Food Patron drives up to First Window and hands Cashier at First Window a $20 and a $1.)
Cashier at First Window: That’ll be $4.99, please.
FFP: (confused) What about tax?
CaFW: Yeah... (pauses) What?
FFP: What about sales tax? You said $4.99. There’s tax, too.
CaFW: Yeah. (studies register, then nods) Yeah. That’s $4.99.
FFP: (resignedly) Okay!
(Fast Food Patron reaches through First Window and grabs the single out of the Cashier at Front Window’s hand, to avoid further confusion.)
Posted by Jonathan at 12:51 AM, 29 July 2004
