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Ok, I'm usually REALLY good at math, I'm pretty much a human calculator most of the time. My friends still can't understand how I can can figure out 6.5% for tax, and 20% for a tip, in a matter of seconds when we go to dinner.
However, today I had a HUGE brain fart. A children's camp comes in, and the guy in charge comes up, the general manager tells me to take 10minutes off whatever amount of time he says. I have no idea why, but he's the GM, so what he says is law.
Well the camp needs 8 lanes, and they want an hour and a half on each lane. Which means 12 hours total, but I have to remove 10 minutes. Which means, 10 minutes PER LANE. So the total comes out to 10.666667 hours total (according to my calculator).
Well, we have to plug the time in a Hours:Minutes format, so I can;t just put in 10.7 hours and be done, I have to figure out how much 0.7 of an hour is.
However, like I said, I had a complete brain fart and couldn't figure it out. I must have done the math at least 5 or 6 times both in my head and on the calculator trying to do it, I even got the exact number of minutes I need, but I couldn't figure out what it was in hours. (I eventually ended up just saying screw it and taking a guess)
This guy must have been waiting for me to do this stupid math for about 10 minutes, and I apologized like crazy for it, but he was AMAZING. He was calm, wasn't worried about the wait at all, patient as hell. It was great. He wasn't even phased when I told him it would be a couple minutes for me to get him his full receipt. (There's a separate form we have to fill out for large groups, and I had a line forming behind him, so I couldn't do it right then and there. It took me nearly half an hour to get it for him).
I guess it doesn't hurt that he works with children all day (The camp had 43 kids, all under the age of 10), since that probably requires an incredible amount of patience, but it was SO nice to have someone just say
"Oh ok, that's fine, no rush. I'll be over there when you're done."
When I gave him his full receipt I even thanked him for being so patient
However, today I had a HUGE brain fart. A children's camp comes in, and the guy in charge comes up, the general manager tells me to take 10minutes off whatever amount of time he says. I have no idea why, but he's the GM, so what he says is law.
Well the camp needs 8 lanes, and they want an hour and a half on each lane. Which means 12 hours total, but I have to remove 10 minutes. Which means, 10 minutes PER LANE. So the total comes out to 10.666667 hours total (according to my calculator).
Well, we have to plug the time in a Hours:Minutes format, so I can;t just put in 10.7 hours and be done, I have to figure out how much 0.7 of an hour is.
However, like I said, I had a complete brain fart and couldn't figure it out. I must have done the math at least 5 or 6 times both in my head and on the calculator trying to do it, I even got the exact number of minutes I need, but I couldn't figure out what it was in hours. (I eventually ended up just saying screw it and taking a guess)
This guy must have been waiting for me to do this stupid math for about 10 minutes, and I apologized like crazy for it, but he was AMAZING. He was calm, wasn't worried about the wait at all, patient as hell. It was great. He wasn't even phased when I told him it would be a couple minutes for me to get him his full receipt. (There's a separate form we have to fill out for large groups, and I had a line forming behind him, so I couldn't do it right then and there. It took me nearly half an hour to get it for him).
I guess it doesn't hurt that he works with children all day (The camp had 43 kids, all under the age of 10), since that probably requires an incredible amount of patience, but it was SO nice to have someone just say
"Oh ok, that's fine, no rush. I'll be over there when you're done."
When I gave him his full receipt I even thanked him for being so patient
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