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@Kachina624 

Completely agree!

[Tinkrbl44]

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@THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes wrote:

Cute Readers Digest  story,  but I don't believe it for the tiniest minute. 

Just my assessment. 

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@THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes 

I believe it.  This generation missed a LOt of things we consider normal, and everyone knows what to do.

A couple years ago I was about to check out when the company's system went out.  There was still some power, but the cashier had to temporarily take cash only and count back the change due.

Well, get this ... the cashier had NO IDEA how to count change.  We tried to explain if the item was $8.00 and she was given a ten dollar bill by the customer, she would give them $2 change.  She didn't get the concept, even after explaining it again. 

All she'd ever done was enter what was submitted, punch the numbers in and the register would tell her exactly how much to give back.

She burst into tears because it was "too hard" to do it that way.  

I thought about that for a long time ....   

Dear Abby says .... "We're ALL ignorant, only on different subjects".  

[Laura14]

@kaydee50 That lesson was a few years ago with the company checkbook. I totally get it when money is digital and not paper. I can't remember the last time I made a cash purchase myself or wrote an actual check. 

[Laura14]

@Tori3569 That's what they did! I wonder why they think the addressee goes there? Interesting... 

[Tori3569]

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@Laura14 wrote:

@Tori3569 That's what they did! I wonder why they think the addressee goes there? Interesting... 

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That's one of the reasons I thought it was so funny!  There are a few others and I couldn't understand why they put the address there.  😹.   There's another one where they gave young people a rotary phone and asked them how to use it.  Very amusing!  

[Laura14]

@Tinkrbl44  When our internet went out a while back, they shut down retail for this exact reason. I brought out pencil and paper for them in case someone wanted a receipt and figured they had the calculator on their phone for addition and sales tax. Forget it. Shut it down and lost sales to reopen when they had a computer again. 

[beckyb1012]

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@Tori3569 wrote:

I believe this 100%.  I saw a feature on either Jimmy Fallon or Jimmy Kimmel where they asked young people to address an envelope and put the stamp on it.

 0 of 4  could do it correctly.  For some strange reason most of them put the mailing address where we would put the return address.  2 of them put the stamp on the bottom left. It was hilarious and sad at the same time. 

It was Kimmel, here are 2 screenshots 

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Can you imagine how proud their parents felt?   I bet that was a funny show.

[Goodie2shoes]

@ RedTop wrote: Oh, I believe it!  My husbands niece came to visit recently; early 20's.  I have a large clock with hour, minute, and second hands, on the living room wall and she cannot tell time that way, never had a watch; she had to look at her cell phone.  She does not know how to write a check.  The only phone she knows how to use is a cell phone.  Days before she was here was the first time she'd ever seen a mercury thermometer.  

My 8 yo grandson has his own room here and I bought a clock for his bedside table. For some reason the clock has the regular time but at 9 pm it switches to military time. 2100 hrs. I haven't been able to figure out why it does that. I changed the time but it switched back to military time really weird !  So I sat down with him and taught him about the regular time and military time. ( he's very smart, reads at the 5-6th grade level and yes I'm bragging )  So now when he sees the clock change to military time, he will tell me what it is in regular time and gives me a big smile that he knows the difference.   

[tends2dogs]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@Wsmom wrote:

So this means they have also never seen a piece of mail.  Grandma never sent them a birthday card, etc.  Scary that they are managers.

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@Wsmom   Grandma undoubtedly sent them a birthday card but you can bet they never sent her a "thank you" note.

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That was my first thought when I read this......no wonder we don't get thank you notes anymore.  Even a phone call would be nice.  A text doesn't get it in my book.....

[spiderw]

I see this as sad and pitiful. I am so glad I learned what I did at school, I can read, write, send mail, speak proper English and communicate with people in person.  Maybe not knowing how to address an envelope is trivial to some but knowledge is most important to me in all areas.