computer dependent

I'm going to come out and say it, flat out. We as a human race are becoming too computer dependent.

For example, I was in the shoe store today getting some new kicks (which by the way are much more expensive here in Argentina, but I did go to a second-hand store, don't worry). Anyways, I'm sitting there looking at discounted socks while I'm listening to a conversation going on with the store manager and a customer. The customer had a store credit, and was trying to purchase some things. His total was short one peso. 33 cents. The manager couldn't complete the transaction.

He kept saying the computer system wouldn't let him use his store credit because he was one peso short. He had to buy something else. Obviously, nothing costs one peso in the shoe store. The customer was in disbelief, as was I. So they went back and forth, the customer questioning, trying to understand the ridonkulousness of this one peso idea, even offering to donate the one peso to the store (multiple times). The manager was saying that it would be his hide from his superiors above if he didn't get one more peso onto the sale to reach the store credit amount.

I turned to the manager, and was like, "couldn't you just say the guys shoes cost 1 more peso, tell the computer that" but I didn't say the "tell the computer that" part, that would've been rude. After I said something, I'm not sure if the manager was offended or maybe finally understood the ridonkulousness of this one peso problem, and was finally like, "Está bien, está bien" and completed the transaction. I was like, ya, of course it's ok, you just earned an extra free peso for your store, you deserve a bonus.

Forgive my sarcasm, but this is another of the many examples I've lived in the not-so-distant past that is revealing society's unhealthy dependency on computers. What if someone decided to use one of those electromagnetic bombs that they used in Ocean's Eleven? They did it in the movie, so of course they could do it in real life. Society would shut down.