LOL!!!
Pistol - ever consider a career as a stand-up comedian? You've certainly got enough material...and they say the best jokes are based on real life...
There's a discussion going on at another board I'm on about "this generation"...some folks think that each generation gets worse and worse - less polite, less respectful, less intelligent...
I said that the older generations ALWAYS like to bitch!
Remember too - I'd think most of these clerks don't WANT to be there, but HAVE to be - aren't WE bitchy at our work once in a while?
Of course, that doesn't explain the failure at arithmetic...I like the "$5.03" story - I do the same thing whenever I can - just to make people's day a little more surreal...