clueless

my niece and i paid her tuition this afternoon...  so we were on queue and when our number came up, the guard called us to one of the windows...

ok...  i gave the enrollment slip plus my credit card to the woman at the counter...

she took them and then proceeded to count and check a wad of one-dollar bills...

so there i was watching her through the glass window and, not really noticing that i was thinking aloud, blurted out, 'how come she's counting dollars???'
[local currency is the philippine peso]

the guard overheard me and asked, 'are you paying in dollars?!'

me:  'no!  mine's credit card...'

so she was checking the dollar bills and looking at this slip where i think serial numbers or whatever was listed and then she stood up and disappeared!

in the meantime, the guard has already called two payees to the next window...

i told the guard, 'next time a window opens up transfer us there...  the cashier here left...'

the guard peeks through the glass and goes:  'she's still coming back...'

me:  'even then!  she's not processing our payment...  she's still attending to something else...  you shouldn't have called us to this window if she's not yet ready to attend to us...  just transfer us...'

guard:  'but your papers are already with her...'

me:  'then get them and bring them to another window...'

and then the woman came back...  she was still checking the wad of bills, one dollar each!

me, noticing and aligning my mouth to the speaker that would allow her to hear whatever i was saying behind the window:  'what's she doing?!  it's so rude to be calling someone comfortably seated to stand in front of you then make them wait while you take so long attending to something else...  people might even think we're the one holding the line...'

she suddenly glances at me then puts the dollars down...  she then processes my niece's payment...

gah!  some people are not able to recognize rude things on their own...  you have to point it out to them before they remember to be considerate...  >: }