When I sold and wore vintage clothes in San Francisco, in the 1970s, I could sometimes find Enna Jetticks shoes in thrift shops and rummage sales to put in my shop…
Not usually from the 30’s… but made in the 1950’s and 60’s, and only considered “second hand” in the 70’s.
…
The toes were a bit rounder, the heels a little lower, because by 1960 or so, Enna Jetticks were considered “orthopedic shoes” … made for comfort, and only worn by “little old ladies.”
“Comfort” being a relative term, because they had a 2 or 3″ heel, and leather soles….
Back then older women wouldn’t wear padded athletic shoes, or Crocs.
…
There were other “old lady” brands in similar styles, and also, some brands of soft padded leather sandals all of which looked like 1930’s shoes to go with the vintage dresses we sold…
I lived in them a lot of the time.
….
Funny cos…. in my 20’s, I wore the same shoes as 1970s old ladies.., along with the actual clothes they had worn in their 20’s … and sometimes, their mother’s clothes.
Those old ladies, some wearing orthopedic shoes and ugly, soft nylon jersey “Shelton Stroller dresses, were … sigh… probably only about as old as I am now, but looked ancient.
…
And in 2022, now that I’m almost the age they were, then, I dress in younger styles than some of what I wore in my own 20’s…
Except for, of course, the mini dresses and such. which are now sold in vintage stores to women in their 20’s.
I like this guy, Beard. Please keep on posting.
The attachment is from a screen shot of one of Winsor McCay’s political cartoons after he went back to Hearst in 1927.
I think it could be published today with very little, if anything, having to be changed.
I’ve run across his “Little Nemo” character before, but I never could get into the stories, they made no sense to me at all.
Just a general comment about some cashiers and their startling lack of training.
I collect the dimes and nickels from my change at cash registers, and put them in an empty prescription bottle (canister? vial?) as my McDonald’s coffee fund
When they total $1.40 (that includes tax) I use them to pay for my coffee.
Sometimes the cashier on duty will trust that it’s all there and put the coins in the till uncounted (I appreciate the trust) and sometimes he or she will count it; it’s a part of the job to keep the till balanced, so I never say anything; why get upset because someone is doing his or her job? Now to the point.
There are fewer and fewer people behind the McDonald’s counter these days (there have been three “We’re Hiring” signs put up from November last year, to January this year with almost no time between the take downs) so sometimes service is a bit slow.
The last time I was in, I decided to make it easy for the cashier to count the change when he came back to the till from serving the coffees of the people in front of me.
I sorted my change collection on the counter into spread out, un-stacked, groups of five, five, and three dimes, and two nickels.
You could see the confusion on his face when he looked down. He couldn’t total the four coin groups by inspection and addition; he counted each coin separately (again I didn’t say anything while he was doing it).
But that is definitely the state of training of more than one cashier, and I’ll go so far as to question the state of the Alberta mathematics curriculum too.
Some people are lucky enough to be more intelligent than other people.
Some people have arithmetic skills and others don’t, or can learn what’s impossible for others, when exposed to the same lessons.
You find out quickly when you train people on cash registers, and you try to find a way that works for them.
…
Quite often, it’s teenagers, who maybe don’t have the skills yet, or who need to work instead of focusing on school…
or older people who simply haven’t been lucky enough to receive your education in mathematics….
who end up in low wage jobs like working at McDonald’s.
…
Besides, I’ve tutored what I called “Math for math phobics” …
You’d be surprised at the number of otherwise brilliant people, with good careers, who either are too terrified of numbers to balance a checkbook without special guidance (those are the ones I can help) or simply can’t do arithmetic, because their brains just aren’t wired that way.
They might be a little autistic, and differently focused…
Around here, a few are somewhat developmentally disabled., and working through special placement programs… not often on registers, but sometimes.
…
Some people with certain spatial disabilities can do math, but can’t recognise a group of 4 or 5 objects at a glance, and can’t learn to.
There are even people who just don’t care… which doesn’t help their job performance, but your silent stares while they count the change aren’t going to reform them.
…
You don’t have to use your coins that way, since you’ve noticed it causes problems for some cashiers… but if you really want to,
it’s no big thing to do it as though you’re counting back change…
Hand over 5 dimes, and say, “there’s 50 cents”, another 5, “and that makes a dollar.” “And three dimes make 30 cents, and two nickels make it $1.40”
He or she may still have to count it over, if they couldn’t follow.
As my opening says my comment was about …some cashiers and their startling lack of training., and that lack of training is management’s failure (I will admit I didn’t think of spatial disabilities, but if that was his problem he’s overcome it by counting individually / and I said nothing).
Nor do I ever do anything to have deserved this:…
“…but your silent stares…” / “Smile and be kind.”
…(I may not smile, but I never disparage / through verbal insult or sneering looks, either / I also never talk down to any disabled, physically or mentally, person)
Sorry, as Tigressy said (thanks Tigressy) I wasn’t trying to insult you…
I was replying to the TONE of your post, as much as the content. Maybe you don’t realise that using the giant text on top, and bold inside, made it sound so forceful.
We tend to interpret forceful as possibly angry.
That’s why ALL CAPS is considered shouting, even when the content is mild. Bold or huge is the same.
While I was writing, Liverlips commented that you sounded cranky, too.
….
I’m happy to hear you were being friendly.
Sorry, but I couldn’t tell.
You noticed the cashier’s every stumble and facial expression… I wasn’t there, so it sounded to me like staring.
Maybe it wasn’t. Or maybe it wasn’t to you but the cashier felt watched anyway.
…
That’s great, if you were being nice, and I just couldn’t tell. My suggested method for handing over the change could be still nicer.
You kindly don’t say anything when someone counts the change in the prescription bottle.
I don’t know why it would even OCCUR to you to say anything. They’re not supposed to just accept it. If seen they could be fired, in some places.
…
McDonald’s in particular, has had problems… I don’t know about 2022 in Alberta…
But in the 80’s in California, McDonald’s pioneered using cash registers with pictures of popular food items on the keys…
because they had so many cashiers who couldn’t ring up prices correctly, or key in SKUs (codes to enter products.)
They weren’t so hot at making change either. That’s why modern registers display the change, and not the total.
(Which makes me crazy cos I’m trained to count up change. Last of that breed, though.)
You also noticed they having a hard time getting employees… So they’re not going to be the cream of the crop.
…
Anyway… I’m sure I over reacted a little, and I apologise for that.
But I’ve been behind sales counters, cash registers or flea market tables, most of my life. Even as a haircutter you ring customers up.
I’ve been a manager, too..
Do you realise that by trying to qualify your statement to say it’s management’s fault,
you’re laying the blame on ME for those failures to meet your standards?.
Well I’ve trained people on registers, manual or computerised, taught them to count change, or worked with them on arithmetic, or both.
Tutored dyslexic students, especially 4th through 6th graders, as well.
…
Not everybody can be trained at work, if they have problems with math. Work isn’t school… There’s work to do!
Still, I tried.
And I know how hard it is for some of them, and how criticised they’ve felt.
I admit I absolutely fly into Mother Hen mode when it feels like my chicks are attacked.
I’m glad of you aren’t attacking… maybe you could think about toning down your presentation here, to not look so much more emphatic than the rest of us, so we don’t misinterpret.
Appreciate your understanding approach, Susan. When we were kids, of course, a nickel or a dime was an item of greater significance than now. Young adults of today have had much less practice.
I wondered about Sam’s ability to see the RED car as dogs are purported to be color blind. Turns out that they have 2 types of cones in their retinas and can see blues and yellows. Reds and greens are more brownish to them. So, Sam would have a problem seeing that red car but not the yellow and green ones Susan mentions.
I found this about a 7 minute interesting read, including stopping to look at the pictures.
I was until reading this one of the people who thought dogs only saw in black and white. Now I know differently.
I’d like to know what birds and fish see in the ultraviolet range. I wouldn’t think it would appear fluorescent, as a day-glo poster, but who knows?
Kinda makes me giggle, though, that we wonder about how Sam can see that the car is red…
but not about how Miss Behave can drive it, or shoot a gun.
Or how Sam can talk, write with a pen or pencil, smoke, and use the telephone…
though I see that he doesn’t have to dial it.
Seeing things in color, where available in his black and white world, though real-life dogs cannot, might just be another of his amazing comics character talents.
….
I just put it all down to suspension of disbelief, and cartoon physics.
Having had a lot of familiarity with jumping cactus (Cholla) it is amazing how easily the things break off from the rest of the plant. While you know it doesn’t really “jump”, it sure seems that way when you swear you were no closer than a few inches to it when walking along a narrow path.
vintage escalator
Whoa! That looks like one I’ve been on in downtown L.A. as a kid!!
That’s a beauty. I remember riding a few of those old wooden “moving stairs.”
I believe Higbee’s had those in the 50’s in downtown Cleveland!
They should have installed some of those in “The Seven Year Itch”. – Just figure…
Woodward’s Department Store, Vancouver, BC ca. 1955
1955 Chevy
Kansas City Missouri, 1938
Here is a 1937 advertisement for Enna Jettick shoes.
Great idea to wear any sort of shoe with heels while playing a sport or physical game.
Can you imagine what those shoes will do to the fairways and greens not to mention the personal damage?
Where’s the BBQ diner?
Don’t know that a BBQ diner would have been seen in this nice part of KC in1938. Mebbee a Ristorente full of Mafia types.
The BBQ would be down in the river bottoms, or maybe out on Blue Ridge(also known as “Dogpatch”)
sounds like somebody who’s been there
Once or eleventy.
When I sold and wore vintage clothes in San Francisco, in the 1970s, I could sometimes find Enna Jetticks shoes in thrift shops and rummage sales to put in my shop…
Not usually from the 30’s… but made in the 1950’s and 60’s, and only considered “second hand” in the 70’s.
…
The toes were a bit rounder, the heels a little lower, because by 1960 or so, Enna Jetticks were considered “orthopedic shoes” … made for comfort, and only worn by “little old ladies.”
“Comfort” being a relative term, because they had a 2 or 3″ heel, and leather soles….
Back then older women wouldn’t wear padded athletic shoes, or Crocs.
…
There were other “old lady” brands in similar styles, and also, some brands of soft padded leather sandals all of which looked like 1930’s shoes to go with the vintage dresses we sold…
I lived in them a lot of the time.
….
Funny cos…. in my 20’s, I wore the same shoes as 1970s old ladies.., along with the actual clothes they had worn in their 20’s … and sometimes, their mother’s clothes.
Those old ladies, some wearing orthopedic shoes and ugly, soft nylon jersey “Shelton Stroller dresses, were … sigh… probably only about as old as I am now, but looked ancient.
…
And in 2022, now that I’m almost the age they were, then, I dress in younger styles than some of what I wore in my own 20’s…
Except for, of course, the mini dresses and such. which are now sold in vintage stores to women in their 20’s.
Your insight is valuable.
So did Sam make a spelling air or? Or was it someone else who died by Chicago typewriter (even though it’s San Francisco)?
I caught that, too.
Before I got it…. I stared at that panel for ages, thinking it must contain the mistake.
Then I realised I’d already noticed it, but not there.
Sigh…
I like this guy, Beard. Please keep on posting.
The attachment is from a screen shot of one of Winsor McCay’s political cartoons after he went back to Hearst in 1927.
I think it could be published today with very little, if anything, having to be changed.
I’ve run across his “Little Nemo” character before, but I never could get into the stories, they made no sense to me at all.
Whaqt about the geese in the back?
I collect the dimes and nickels from my change at cash registers, and put them in an empty prescription bottle (canister? vial?) as my McDonald’s coffee fund
When they total $1.40 (that includes tax) I use them to pay for my coffee.
Sometimes the cashier on duty will trust that it’s all there and put the coins in the till uncounted (I appreciate the trust) and sometimes he or she will count it; it’s a part of the job to keep the till balanced, so I never say anything; why get upset because someone is doing his or her job?
Now to the point.
There are fewer and fewer people behind the McDonald’s counter these days (there have been three “We’re Hiring” signs put up from November last year, to January this year with almost no time between the take downs) so sometimes service is a bit slow.
The last time I was in, I decided to make it easy for the cashier to count the change when he came back to the till from serving the coffees of the people in front of me.
I sorted my change collection on the counter into spread out, un-stacked, groups of five, five, and three dimes, and two nickels.
You could see the confusion on his face when he looked down. He couldn’t total the four coin groups by inspection and addition; he counted each coin separately (again I didn’t say anything while he was doing it).
But that is definitely the state of training of more than one cashier, and I’ll go so far as to question the state of the Alberta mathematics curriculum too.
Careful! You’re in danger of sounding like a cranky old fart.
fart.”.
Yeah…. That’s my job
Some people are lucky enough to be more intelligent than other people.
Some people have arithmetic skills and others don’t, or can learn what’s impossible for others, when exposed to the same lessons.
You find out quickly when you train people on cash registers, and you try to find a way that works for them.
…
Quite often, it’s teenagers, who maybe don’t have the skills yet, or who need to work instead of focusing on school…
or older people who simply haven’t been lucky enough to receive your education in mathematics….
who end up in low wage jobs like working at McDonald’s.
…
Besides, I’ve tutored what I called “Math for math phobics” …
You’d be surprised at the number of otherwise brilliant people, with good careers, who either are too terrified of numbers to balance a checkbook without special guidance (those are the ones I can help) or simply can’t do arithmetic, because their brains just aren’t wired that way.
They might be a little autistic, and differently focused…
Around here, a few are somewhat developmentally disabled., and working through special placement programs… not often on registers, but sometimes.
…
Some people with certain spatial disabilities can do math, but can’t recognise a group of 4 or 5 objects at a glance, and can’t learn to.
There are even people who just don’t care… which doesn’t help their job performance, but your silent stares while they count the change aren’t going to reform them.
…
You don’t have to use your coins that way, since you’ve noticed it causes problems for some cashiers… but if you really want to,
it’s no big thing to do it as though you’re counting back change…
Hand over 5 dimes, and say, “there’s 50 cents”, another 5, “and that makes a dollar.” “And three dimes make 30 cents, and two nickels make it $1.40”
He or she may still have to count it over, if they couldn’t follow.
Smile and be kind.
As my opening says my comment was about …some cashiers and their startling lack of training., and that lack of training is management’s failure (I will admit I didn’t think of spatial disabilities, but if that was his problem he’s overcome it by counting individually / and I said nothing).
Nor do I ever do anything to have deserved this:…
“…but your silent stares…” / “Smile and be kind.”
…(I may not smile, but I never disparage / through verbal insult or sneering looks, either / I also never talk down to any disabled, physically or mentally, person)
Relax.
Susan didn’t mean to insult you.
Misunderstandings happen.
Don’t know if it is the job of management to teach basic life skills, like handling change.
Didn’t used to be.
If it’s their job to make a profit on your performance it sure as hell should be!
Your parents might work with you on, say, making your bed, or social graces.. they might help with your academic homework
You have teachers for reading, chemistry, even, yes, math.
Neither usually teaches you to run a cash register or make change.
…
Good luck expecting to hire a kid who already knows how to wait on customers, find merchandise for them, and take their payments.
The math involved in that process is often on the job training.
You hope they know the underlying arithmetic, but they often don’t.
….
Hiring intelligent adults to work in a chocolate shop, I was amazed at how few already knew how many ounces in a pound.
If a customer wanted half a pound, they didn’t know that was 8 ounces, or that the decimal scale would read .50.
….
I was constantly appalled, when even after training, an associate AND the customer would think .25 on the scale meant 25 ounces…
but still somehow both knew it was a quarter pound.
Where is this chocolate shop?? Asking for a friend…..
Long ago and far away… Ethel M Chocolates. Great stuff.
They closed all their California retail, and i lost my job, in 1993…
Still available I THINK in Las Vegas, and by mail order, but now terribly expensive.
….
Even so… they used to use the best dark chocolate EVER, but they switched to a cheaper formula.
It’s still good, (or was, cos it’s been years…) .. Best fillings.anywhere.
But they’d bought out Dove ice cream, and started coating with the chocolate that’s on Dove bars….and making Dove candies.
…
If you bought their expensive solid chocolate, you got the same stuff as in the bags of Dove Promises…. possibly still do.
It’s still really good but you might as well buy Dove.
Sorry, as Tigressy said (thanks Tigressy) I wasn’t trying to insult you…
I was replying to the TONE of your post, as much as the content. Maybe you don’t realise that using the giant text on top, and bold inside, made it sound so forceful.
We tend to interpret forceful as possibly angry.
That’s why ALL CAPS is considered shouting, even when the content is mild. Bold or huge is the same.
While I was writing, Liverlips commented that you sounded cranky, too.
….
I’m happy to hear you were being friendly.
Sorry, but I couldn’t tell.
You noticed the cashier’s every stumble and facial expression… I wasn’t there, so it sounded to me like staring.
Maybe it wasn’t. Or maybe it wasn’t to you but the cashier felt watched anyway.
…
That’s great, if you were being nice, and I just couldn’t tell. My suggested method for handing over the change could be still nicer.
You kindly don’t say anything when someone counts the change in the prescription bottle.
I don’t know why it would even OCCUR to you to say anything. They’re not supposed to just accept it. If seen they could be fired, in some places.
…
McDonald’s in particular, has had problems… I don’t know about 2022 in Alberta…
But in the 80’s in California, McDonald’s pioneered using cash registers with pictures of popular food items on the keys…
because they had so many cashiers who couldn’t ring up prices correctly, or key in SKUs (codes to enter products.)
They weren’t so hot at making change either. That’s why modern registers display the change, and not the total.
(Which makes me crazy cos I’m trained to count up change. Last of that breed, though.)
You also noticed they having a hard time getting employees… So they’re not going to be the cream of the crop.
…
Anyway… I’m sure I over reacted a little, and I apologise for that.
But I’ve been behind sales counters, cash registers or flea market tables, most of my life. Even as a haircutter you ring customers up.
I’ve been a manager, too..
Do you realise that by trying to qualify your statement to say it’s management’s fault,
you’re laying the blame on ME for those failures to meet your standards?.
Well I’ve trained people on registers, manual or computerised, taught them to count change, or worked with them on arithmetic, or both.
Tutored dyslexic students, especially 4th through 6th graders, as well.
…
Not everybody can be trained at work, if they have problems with math. Work isn’t school… There’s work to do!
Still, I tried.
And I know how hard it is for some of them, and how criticised they’ve felt.
I admit I absolutely fly into Mother Hen mode when it feels like my chicks are attacked.
I’m glad of you aren’t attacking… maybe you could think about toning down your presentation here, to not look so much more emphatic than the rest of us, so we don’t misinterpret.
Thanks.
Appreciate your understanding approach, Susan. When we were kids, of course, a nickel or a dime was an item of greater significance than now. Young adults of today have had much less practice.
I read that as of 2022, only about 20% of retail transactions are in cash.
I know I do almost everything with a debit card, myself.
Paying cash or writing a check at Target or the supermarket would feel weird by now.
Did we expect the flamboyant Miss Behave to drive anything but a red car?
hot chocolate
Yay… Episode FOUR!
Right, Sam… Not a lot of red cars around in black and white.
I know you’re a scent hound but you must have a good eye.
Not a lot of green or yellow ones, either, but I’m sure if they show up, you’ll see them.
Try calling a cab… or do they have Grey Cabs in your world?
…
And wow… right again, Sam… why would Miss Behave want to throw you off the trail… or even (gasp!) do you in?
Do you think she might have an ulterior motive?
Or perhaps be just using you, to see who else is involved?
…
Wait… do you think she’s after something?
Do you think she wants to find it before you do?
I think the question boils down to… DO YOU THINK?
Or are you just being led around by your …
… um…. you know… your attraction to a lovely female dog?
…
Right now, you’re fired up by indignation, and curiosity…
You have tough questions… your very life may depend on the answers…
to say nothing of a small fortune, embodied in that supposedly cursed artifact.
Miss Behave may have the answers you need!
You’re a hound .. go find her!
…
But when you walk in her door, Sam… remember: FOCUS.
Don’t wag your tail.
She’s not just a beautiful female dog…
she’s a dangerous, lying …um… female dog.
I wondered about Sam’s ability to see the RED car as dogs are purported to be color blind. Turns out that they have 2 types of cones in their retinas and can see blues and yellows. Reds and greens are more brownish to them. So, Sam would have a problem seeing that red car but not the yellow and green ones Susan mentions.
For a longer explanation and some photos of the world as dogs see it – https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/can-dogs-see-color/
I found this about a 7 minute interesting read, including stopping to look at the pictures.
I was until reading this one of the people who thought dogs only saw in black and white. Now I know differently.
I’d like to know what birds and fish see in the ultraviolet range. I wouldn’t think it would appear fluorescent, as a day-glo poster, but who knows?
birds
…unless, of course, they hit windows.
Birds (and fish, sometimes) have such exciting mating colors, one hopes they are not in vain!
Remeber to include insects that see in the ultraviolet, and snake that see in the infra red…
Interesting about the colors…
Kinda makes me giggle, though, that we wonder about how Sam can see that the car is red…
but not about how Miss Behave can drive it, or shoot a gun.
Or how Sam can talk, write with a pen or pencil, smoke, and use the telephone…
though I see that he doesn’t have to dial it.
Seeing things in color, where available in his black and white world, though real-life dogs cannot, might just be another of his amazing comics character talents.
….
I just put it all down to suspension of disbelief, and cartoon physics.
Anyone else getting the Not Secure warning for the site? According to my mac the site cert is valid
Edit: Never mind…logging back in took care of it.
The attachment shows all is secure on my PC running Windows 10.
Thanks! logging back in got it back
(TWEET!) Flag on the play! Fourth wall violation! 5 wrist slaps!
Good morning Cleo noir phans! Other than the initial secure site brain phart, it’s a good day for a mystery.
National Backward Day!
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Y’all have a great day. (((((HuGz!)))))
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Really good movie even though “North by Northwest” does not exist as a direction.
NNW?
I thought it sounded like sailor talk.
It’s a trick direction: Roger O. Thornhill traveled north (to North Dakota) by Northwest Airlines…
Roadrunners nest in them.
Having had a lot of familiarity with jumping cactus (Cholla) it is amazing how easily the things break off from the rest of the plant. While you know it doesn’t really “jump”, it sure seems that way when you swear you were no closer than a few inches to it when walking along a narrow path.
Apropos of nothing in particular …
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My fortune cookie from lunch today:
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….but, maybe better. (?)
That’s funny!